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TIME RUNS OUT ON DUKE Blue Devils come up just short as Penn State claims national title

New advisory group to assess Abele’s legacy Amrith Ramkumar and Ryan Zhang The Chronicle

Following student demands that the new West Union be named after Julian Abele—the black architect who designed West Campus—an advisory group will recommend to President Richard Brodhead how best to recognize Abele’s contributions to the University. Brodhead announced the plans to consider how to honor Abele’s legacy at this weekend’s winter Board of Trustees meeting at the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club. Executive Vice President Tallman Trask will lead the group of students, faculty, alumni and others in making recommendations to Brodhead about Abele, who led the design See TRUSTEES on Page 3

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle The Blue Devils knocked off Florida State and five conference champions en route to the title game but were shut out Sunday.

Cassie Calvert The Chronicle CARY, N.C.—After missing the postseason last year for the first time since 2002, Duke’s unlikely journey through the NCAA tournament came to an end one win shy of history Sunday. Penn State midfielder Raquel Rodriguez posted the lone goal at WakeMed Soccer Park, lifting top-seeded Penn State to a 1-0 win

against third-seeded Duke in the College Cup final, denying the Blue Devils the program’s first national championship and giving the Nittany Lions theirs. Rodriguez’s goal—her sixth of the season—came in the 72nd minute with a sliding finish inside the box through a sea of Duke defenders. Rodriguez’s score earned her offensive Most Outstanding Player honors for the tournament. “[Rodriguez] has a great feel for the game, you can see that,” Duke head coach Robbie

Church said. “I thought she was as effective against us as any of the players we’ve seen.” Scoreless at the end of the first period, Duke (14-6-5) outshot the Nittany Lions 6-4 through the first 45 minutes, though Penn State (22-3-2) placed three on goal. A shot by sophomore Ashton Miller just barely went wide to the left in the seventh minute to get the offense started for the Blue Devils. Fellow sophomore Imani Dorsey—who See W.SOCCER on Page 12

Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle A new advisory group will discuss how to honor West Campus architect Julian Abele, whose portrait hangs in Rubenstein Library.

DKU embracing ‘process of development’ with long-term view Heather Zhou The Chronicle

Chronicle File Photo DKU is still seeking to overcome difficulties in its second year after opening.

Duke Kunshan University is seeking to move past its growing pains and introduce more programs during its second year. DKU is now home to about 100 students—half of whom are graduate students pursuing one of the three master’s programs. The other half are undergraduate students from China, Korea, India and the U.S. participating in a semester-long study abroad program. DKU has been under scrutiny for the slow progress of construction projects on campus and its relatively isolated location within China.

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Construction on five of six planned buildings is now finished, however, and administrators are eager to show that DKU is succeeding. “You have to recognize that there is a process of development. We knew from the early on that some aspects will be fast, some will be slow,” said Denis Simon, executive vice chancellor of DKU. “But for the most part students are feeling much more upbeat and positive about living and studying at DKU.” Simon noted that the University is working to keep students engaged in the city of Kunshan by offering a shuttle bus to the downtown district. In addition, the city government is planning on building a commercial center to serve the area.

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“The city government came to survey our students about their preferences for food and shopping,” he said. “This is very good indication that they see us as a very important partner in the development of the entire zone.” Duke professors who have taught at DKU praised the campus dynamics and student body. Wayne Norman, Mike and Ruth Mackowski Professor of ethics who taught at DKU last Spring, said he was impressed by the Chinese students in his class and the progress they made during the sevenweek session. “For a lot of them, it’s their first

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Duke files amicus brief with peers in support of affirmative action Jaime Gordon The Chronicle Last month, Duke and several peer institutions filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court regarding the affirmative action case of Fisher v. University of Texas. Arguments for the case are set to begin Wednesday. In 2008, a white woman named Abigail Fisher was denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin. In the state of Texas, public universities are required to admit all in-state students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class, according to Oyez, a website dedicated to compiling Supreme Court cases and sponsored by the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Fisher was not in the top 10 percent of her class and was thus subject to holistic review, which included race. Fisher asserted that the school’s consideration of race undermined her chances of being admitted and was thus unconstitutional discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment. Duke, along with 12 peer institutions— Brown University, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, University Of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University and Yale University—filed a “friend of the court” brief Nov. 2 in support of the University of Texas. “The holistic review of applications, with consideration of race and ethnicity among many other factors, is a narrowly tailored approach to achieve the compelling interest of diversity in higher education,” the brief—co-represented by Pamela Bernard, vice president and general counsel for Duke—asserts. In the jointly-filed brief, Duke and its peer institutions wrote that prohibiting the consideration of race could lead to inaccurate judgments of qualified applicants. “Race-blind approaches to holistic review would ignore a salient aspect of applicants’ identities and experiences—

disregarding characteristics that, to some applicants, may have played a central role in shaping their goals and achievements,” the brief states. Fisher v. University of Texas was first argued before the Supreme Court in 2012. Although Duke and a number of other universities also filed an amicus brief at that time supporting the University of Texas, the Court decided 7-1 to remand the case back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In the majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that there are benefits of diversity in education, but that the Court of Appeals had failed to apply the right standard when reviewing the case. The appeals court again ruled in favor of the University of Texas, and Fisher

subsequently submitted a petition to review the decision. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case again during the 2015-16 term and is scheduled to hear oral arguments Dec. 9. Referring to previous affirmative action cases such as Grutter v. Bollinger and Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the brief discussed the importance of diversity in preparing students for an increasingly multicultural world. ”When a university considers which applicants will best contribute to a vibrant learning environment intended to prepare students to live and work in a world in which race remains a salient social factor, it should not ignore the communities from which its students

come and into which its students will graduate, whether it be a single state, the nation or the world,” the brief notes. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said that Duke forms its institutional opinions on controversial issues like this on a case-by-case basis. He noted, however, that the University’s stance on this particular issue has not changed. “Admission to Duke is a complex and very nuanced process,” he said. “The fact that we have 32 to 33,000 applicants for 1,700 spots means that most people who apply to Duke are going to be disappointed. The issues raised in the amicus brief represent one part of a very complex decisionmaking process.”

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TRUSTEES from page 1 of the University’s campus from the 1920s until the 1940s. The advisory group will be tasked with bringing its recommendations to Brodhead and the Board’s Committee on Facilities and Environment at the Trustees’ February 2016 meeting. “There was enthusiasm and happiness at the notion that this is the time to decide what’s the right thing,” Brodhead said. Abele’s portrait currently hangs in the Allen Building lobby, where it was placed in 1988. Another portrait was also placed in the recentlyrenovated Gothic Reading Room in Rubenstein Library, along with the portraits of other former Duke presidents, board chairs and dignitaries. The renaming of West Union after Abele will “certainly” be under consideration, but Brodhead said other options will also be assessed. “If you’re going to have a deliberation, you shouldn’t begin by requiring that the conclusion be known in advance. There are actually lots of possibilities,” Brodhead said. The advisory group that will analyze the architect’s contributions to the University is the second such group created in light of recent student demands. Brodhead recently announced the creation of a Task Force on Bias and Hate Issues chaired by Kelly Brownell, dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy, and Dean of Social Sciences Linda Burton that is expected to make recommendations by April 2016. Recent issues related to campus diversity and inclusivity were also a topic of discussion at the meeting. “The Trustees are interested in everything that affects the welfare of this campus,” Brodhead said. “They are strongly in support of the idea that it’s a good time for all of us to learn what works well here, what works less well, what we could make better and how we could move in that direction. People did not regard the events of the last month as some horrible disturbance

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or distortion of Duke. They saw it as a challenge which is in the tradition of Duke.” At the meeting—the Board’s second of the academic year—the Trustees also approved a master’s degree in international environmental policy for Duke Kunshan University. The program will be a joint degree through the Nicholas School of the Environment and Sanford School of Public Policy designed to address environmental issues in China by training students in environmental research and law. It received Academic Council approval Nov. 19 and will begin in Fall 2017 as a four-semester program that allows DKU students to spend one semester at Duke. Additionally, the program will facilitate a onesemester program in China for master’s students at Sanford and the Nicholas School. It is the fourth DKU master’s program to be approved, joining the medical physics, global health and management studies programs. In other business: After the University recently announced the new Washington Duke Scholars program for first-generation students, the Trustees heard an update on the program and an update on financial aid. The Board also heard updates about the University’s information technology systems—including online courses and data security—as well as campus safety and security after a number of recent on-campus crimes. The Trustees met with Gen. Martin Dempsey, Graduate School ‘84 and a Rubenstein Fellow who will begin teaching next Spring. Dempsey shared with the Board some of his experience as former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. One of Duke’s main schools also presents an update at each Board meeting—this weekend it was the Nicholas School of the Environment, which hosted the Trustees at the Environment Hall. The Board approved tributes to seniors Laura Roberts and Jay Ruckelshaus for being named Rhodes Scholars.

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DKU from page 1 encounter with the western liberalarts model,” he said. “They were very smart, and there is no significant difference that I saw between them and international students at Duke in terms of academic capacity.” Norman also noted that the Internet access available on campus enables students to examine and discuss issues. “Through the Duke [Virtual Private Network], they have unrestricted access to all the websites that are inaccessible in China, and there were some interesting discussions that evolved from there,” he explained. In the past, many have raised concerns about academic freedom at DKU due to the restricted atmosphere in China. Simon argued that the agreements signed by DKU and the Chinese government clearly ensure the academic freedom of the University. He said that so far there have been no incidences or reports of academic freedom being violated or constrained. “We have held classes in which we talked about fairly sensitive subjects in the Chinese context, and no one has come by to slap our head,” he noted. Simon added that the relationship between the Chinese government and DKU is positive. He explained that DKU interacts with and reports to three levels of Chinese government: the Kunshan city government, the education department of Jiangsu province and the Ministry of Education. “So far we have not found that there is an excessive bureaucratic burden. The Chinese system is constantly seeking information about what’s going on in DKU because it’s a very important experiment,” Simon said.

DKU’s future plans include the development of an undergraduate program and other master’s programs as well as further brand-building in China. The planned undergraduate program in DKU was discussed in an Academic Council meeting this September, and an additional master’s program in environmental policy was approved by the Academic Council in November. The undergraduate program currently under review will offer a liberal-arts curriculum and have concentrations instead of majors, Simon said. He added that DKU will listen to everyone who has a opinion to ensure the quality of the programs. “Anything that we do in Kunshan is only going to be of the same quality and stature of what we do at Duke,” he said. “There is no ‘Duke-B’ or ‘Duke Light.’ It’s either Duke, or we failed.” Simon also explained that future brand-building of DKU in China will use the term “Duke Kunshan” instead of “DKU” so that people will know that the school is supposed to be an extension of Duke University. He said that some challenges DKU faces include getting more Duke faculty and students to teach and study at the University. Mark Ulett, a lecturing fellow in the Thompson Writing Program who taught a writing class at DKU last Spring, encouraged both Duke faculty and students to explore what DKU has to offer. Although leaving to teach for seven weeks might be a little bit long for some faculty, he noted that he learned a lot during his time at DKU and believes that the students can also benefit from studying there. “There is something very unique about DKU, the energy there is incomparable,” he said. “It’s an exciting place to be. If given the chance, I’d go back in a heartbeat.”

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Why do we always lose on firearms?

n the famous viral opening of HBO’s “The Newsroom,” protagonist Will McAvoy gives a speech in which he explains how America is no longer the greatest country on Earth. In the wake of last Wednesday’s shooting in San Bernardino, California, that ended 14 lives, I once again feel like our country is so very far from being first among nations. Yet, as the debate on gun violence takes center stage, I am reminded of another, less-remembered portion of Mr. McAvoy’s introductory scene: “You know why people don’t like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so smart, how come they lose so goddamned always?” We mean well by our actions. We want to save lives and make America a safer place. Why, then, do we always lose when it comes to gun violence? Frankly put, we lose because our message on gun violence is aimed only at ourselves. To us, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is the enemy—one of the most unpopular advocacy groups in the nation. The truth that we often miss, however, is that the NRA means something very different to the average gun owner. The NRA is the jovial proprietor

Seaver Wang Guest column of the local gun store. The NRA is the friendly local range instructor who taught marksmanship and safety lessons to the entire family. When we clamor that a certain type of weapon ought to be banned on the basis of lethality, our message sometimes sounds as though all those owning such firearms should feel guilty for possessing them. When we laud the rarity of mass shootings in countries such as the United Kingdom or Australia, we level a subliminal threat at gun owners suggesting that American gun laws ought to be like those overseas. When we mock the venerable age of the Second Amendment, we posit that gun owners ought to return to the age of blackpowder, ramrods, and flintlocks. On the day of the Senate vote on the assault weapons ban proposed following Sandy Hook, Senator Dianne Fienstein (D-CA) held up a photo of the 20 children killed in Newtown before Congress during her address—almost as though accusing rifle owners collectively of the murders. Fifteen Democrats joined the Republicans in defeating the measure. The vast majority of gun owners don’t doubt that gun control advocates have good intentions. Rather, they are tired of sermons and they doubt our methods. Feeling unheard and demonized by the left, they either do nothing or resignedly organize underneath the NRA’s banner—and the NRA wins. Within this political environment, the National Rifle Association’s strategy to win the gun debate is not an all-out defense—it’s an all-out, well-organized counterattack. The platform of the opposition is built upon refutation. Gun laws, the NRA crows, won’t work. Even if most gun owners disagree strongly with the NRA’s positions, they are given no room elsewhere to join the discussion. Excluding them from our movement is a fatal mistake. The average gun owner is intimately familiar with laws regarding the purchasing, carrying and safe storage of firearms. When a firearms enthusiast calls his representatives, he can—and does—point out precisely which provisions of the proposed laws are flawed or weak. Sometimes, they are completely right. New York State was forced to revise its own set of new gun laws after policymakers realized that a sevenround capacity limit would effectively outlaw most semiautomatic handgun magazines manufactured within the last eighty years (many carry eight, ten, twelve or fifteen rounds). When we overreach like this, we only reinforce the NRA’s message to gun owners that it—and only it—cares about their perspective. Yet gun owners’ expertise can work both ways! While gun owners are well-armed with the know-how necessary to fight gun legislation, they are also the most qualified people in America to draft gun laws that will work.

The hunters of Montana, the marksmen of Texas, the gunsmiths of North Carolina and the skeet shooters of Tennessee might just be the key to a national victory. Some gun control activists might recoil at the thought of associating with them, but shotgun-toting Americans are not the enemy. Let us ignore the vocal pro-gun extremists. Mainstream gun owners have families, dreams and fears just like the rest of us. In many cases, their choice to own firearms stems from an honest desire to protect loved ones. They are no less saddened by violence than we. They are rational, not radical. The push for change may feel daunting, but believe me—this is a close fight. Only a handful of votes in Congress are needed to get the ball rolling. To win those crucial votes, however, the left must earnestly engage gun owners in the conversation.

How can we make victory possible? The first step is to shift the discussion to policy. We must stop lecturing and start listening. We must focus less on statistics and more on the specifics of proposed laws. We must debate, exploring and evaluating possible solutions. We should remain committed to upholding our own viewpoint and principles, but we must also be willing to work together. I’m tired of losing. But, unless we can convince gun owners to march alongside us, this fight will remain all but unwinnable. Seaver Wang is a Ph.D. student in the Nicolas School of the Environment. He can fire a shotgun onehanded and hit a head-sized rifle target a hundred yards away over iron sights. He was also raised in Wilton, Connecticut—less than a twenty minute drive from Sandy Hook Elementar y School.

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Cue the trolls Trigger Warning: Sexual Violence ne of the first things I was told as a new columnist was “don’t read the comments section.” But, like most writers, that long stream of crudely constructed commentary was all too tempting to pass up.

writers that you aren’t a true feminist until you receive your first rape threat. For many women, that doesn’t take all too long. Women who voice their opinions online, or, to borrow from a famous feminist quote “who express sentiments that differentiate [them] from a doormat,” are often met

gaming community that would reject violence against women and thus be more inclusive to female gamers. Many male gamers took vitriolic offense to her videos, sending her numerous rape and death threats, vandalizing her website and threatening to kill her during speaking events. One gamer created a game,

the force of seven lawsuits. Knowing that the Internet is a haven for misogynistic trolls, I can’t really say that I’m particularly surprised by these comments. I knew that if I continued with my “incoherent infantile screaming,” as one commentator described my work, I would likely be the target

with a special form of ridicule that centers on their existence as women. Rather than criticizing their ideas, Internet commentators target their bodies, looks, and behavior. They exercise threats of sexual violence as a means of intimidation and belittlement with the ultimate goal of silencing women who step out of line. Feminist writer Jessica Valenti is regularly faced with a barrage of threats for her articles in The Guardian, many of them including stalking, rape, and murder. In one instance, a video she posted critiquing online misogyny was met with 5,000 threatening emails overnight; one of the messages threatened to cut her breasts off. If she could start over, she said she might not use her real name because of the constant abuse. Valenti isn’t alone. Anita Sarkeesian created the popular website “Feminist Frequency” to critique the sexism and misogyny that many video games perpetrate. She singles out games like “Grand Theft Auto V” and “DayZ” in which “gamers are virtually raping the avatars controlled by other people playing online. They then post videos of their exploits on YouTube.” As an avid gamer herself, Sarkeesian hoped to create a

“Beat Up Anita Sarkeesian,” where players would “punch” Sarkeesian in the face by repeatedly clicking on it. The resulting image was an increasingly bruised and bloodied Sarkeesian Sarkeesian and Valenti are some of the most extreme cases of Internet abuse, largely because they are so outspoken about feminist issues. But online abuse that sexually targets women is not limited to prominent feminist writers. A Pew poll conducted last year found that one in four women who use the Internet has been stalked or sexually harassed online. As a fairly vocal feminist and activist, I’ve had my fair share of insults launched my way. Most are uncreative – the usual “bitch” and “slut” one would expect. But the more I wrote about sexual assault, the more the insults became personalized. One person commented on my Facebook page that I was clearly asking to be raped by going to a bar. Another said I “allowed” myself to be assaulted and suggested I stop drinking. And after publishing my most recent column, I had the honor of receiving my first rape threat. On Yik Yak, someone thought it appropriate to say they would rail me with the force of seven trains. Well, if you do that, sir, I’ll rail you with

of threats and sexual harassment. What I was not prepared for, however, was the level of support those views would garner. The train threat had 13 upvotes, a net positive count. At least thirteen people–likely Duke students– had voiced their support for an anonymous commenter’s threat of sexual violence. “Just ignore them.” That’s what most people say to women who experience sexually explicit online abuse. But ignoring threats to one’s personal safety is nearly impossible, and people telling you to ignore the abuse both belittles women’s experiences and gives power to trolls to say whatever they want. It’s bizarre that I get more stares and questions when wearing my Beyoncé feminist sweatshirt than shows of concern when I talk about Internet trolls. I’m tired of public apathy. It is bizarre to live in a world where women who aspire to become prominent commentators on sexism and the patriarchy expect to be threatened with rape. It isn’t a matter of if you’ll be threatened, but rather when you’ll be targeted and how many times. *Cue the trolls*

Dana Raphael between the lines I’ve got to hand it to the Internet trolls– they created some of the most hilarious insults I’ve ever heard. My personal favorite is that I am a “hipster faux liberal” (What does this mean? A Republican before it was cool?). Incidentally, I think this would look phenomenal on a t-shirt. A close second is that I am an “authoritarian halfwit.” I picture an angry old man brandishing a cane screaming at the darn commies to get off his lawn. Personal attacks come with the job. Internet commentators view anyone who writes on issues of even the slightest contention as having opened themselves up to personal ridicule. I sometimes find reading the comments helpful; after rummaging through some of the more poignant insults, I’ll occasionally find commentators who levy fair critiques of my articles. They make me think about how I could have better made my case and which points I overlooked. Hearing from those who disagree with me is a very valuable experience, not just for the purposes of writing columns but also for constructing better arguments in daily conversations. But for women online, disagreement quickly morphs into a different sort of beast. There’s a running joke among some female

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Monday Monday, unmasked

h, the final Monday Monday of the semester: much like an acceptance speech, except that at the end of it, instead of an award, you get a dubious reputation as a writer. Monday Monday turned 37 years old this October. Originally founded to be a kind of light take on the week’s news, it eventually

look at some of the overwhelming plaudits my columns have received this semester. “It was eh.” – a member of my comedy group “Monday Monday gives me like, 70 percent of what I want it to.” – someone in my selective living group “I didn’t think it was funny or constructive.” – a message on a GroupMe that got six likes

generation’s Jonathan Swift I am not, but I used both of these types of satire where I felt them appropriate. I do not believe the job of Monday Monday is to make you feel comfortable. I believe the job of Monday Monday is to satirise—if that means prodding light fun at how awkward Duke students are, then do that. But if that means standing up and making fun

out it’s because Duke is actually Hell and we’re all locked in limbo here forever. “Students disappearing upon saying ‘I just can’t’”: a fake news piece describing students saying “I just can’t” and literally immediately ceasing to exist. Relatedly, students who say “turn up” begin revolving upwards and gradually spin away into the sky. The literal interpretation for

Truly, my time as Monday Monday can be incontrovertibly and proudly described as something that happened. Nah but really, it’s been fun. I picked up the job in May and managed to immediately accidentally convince a bunch of people that I was Paul Farmer (spoiler: I’m not). In short order, I had annoyed The Chronicle’s apparently abundant right-wing non-student readership, attacked (read: possibly libelled) a Fortune 500 company and unsubtly jeered opponents of the Black Lives Matter movement. This latter one picked up some— very understandable—flak, being called unproductive and unhelpful for campus dialogue. It’s a fair point: I was essentially trying to make the opposing arguments look dumb. But there was reason behind this. Academia around satire often distinguishes between two types: Horatian and Juvenalian satire. Horatian satire pokes fun at our foibles, aiming to unite us through humour—think “The Simpsons” or “Dr Strangelove”. Juvenalian satire by contrast is angry, using ridicule to condemn what it sees as moral wrongs (examples include Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” or “American Psycho”). Now to clarify, our

of racists, it’s important Monday Monday do that too. Humour is a powerful social normaliser, and its ire should be pointed always and clearly in the direction of oppression. As you can no doubt tell, I have a deep love for satire. Accordingly I tried to channel my favourite influences into my own work as Monday Monday. “The oral history of renovation” for example was my shot at a ClickHole-style long form piece. “Duke 2020” was an attempt to apply Charlie Brooker’s brilliant “Black Mirror” speculative satire to Duke. And of course, in columns like “God declares U.S. ‘greatest nation on Earth!’” I was paying obligatory homage to that fountainhead of modern satire, The Onion. For the most part, I tried to avoid the whole fake news thing though as Scott Dikkers himself pointed out when he visited campus this semester, there are a lot of Onion copycats these days, and I didn’t want to seem to be rehashing someone else’s format. Of course, there were some pieces I never got to write. Here are some of my favourites: “Monday Monday’s Inferno”: An investigative piece in which Monday Monday tries to find out why there’s always smoke coming out of the ground outside Kilgo and Social Sciences. Turns

“it’s lit” was too violent to include here. And finally, “Wanking in the Panopticon”: a riff on the fact Duke always knows when you’re watching pornography. It’s been a good semester to write satire at Duke. Of course, the flipside of that is that it’s been a pretty unfortunate semester for Duke itself. Sorry ‘bout that. But I hope, at the very least, that my columns have provided some relief. I hope that if you were angry at something on campus my ridicule made you laugh; I hope that if you were tired or depressed in the morning my jokes perked you up a little. I hope, ultimately, that I helped showed you how silly this place is. Because let’s be clear, people: Duke is ridiculous. And if I’m totally honest? That’s not something it needs my help proving. My name is Bron Maher, and I’ve been Monday Monday.

Monday Monday satire, probably morphed into a character-based satire in which the authors used their alter-egos to skewer various aspects of life at Duke. Of course, as is wont to be true of an anonymous collegiate humour column, Monday Monday often got itself into trouble for offensive content. Usually this meant insulting some campus group or another—Asian students, Jewish students, Common Ground—although, in one impressive feat of unanimous campus backlash in 2005, four students managed to go further and get themselves fired as Monday Monday for targeting Coach K in an article. When I took over in May, I felt that model had been done to death. It had served its purpose and produced some great satire, but dwindling readership and lack of visibility showed that something wasn’t working anymore. So instead of crafting a character like “Grumpy Trustee” or “MONEY SHOT” for myself, I tried to strip it back to the basics. I would write only under the name “Monday Monday”. I would vary up the format of each column depending on the joke that week. Last, I would slap “Monday Monday” on every column title to make sure my writing stuck out among all the other columns. And the result of all this? Well, just take a

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Sam Turken The Chronicle The two schools just met on the hardwood, but the Blue Devils and Hoosiers will now meet in a football edition of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge at one of baseball’s most recognizable venues. Duke will face Indiana in this year’s New Era Pinstripe Bowl Dec. 26 at 3:30 p.m. at New York’s Yankee Stadium. The bowl berth marks the Blue Devils’ fourth consecutive bowl game, but Duke has fallen in its last three appearances, including a 36-31 loss to. Arizona State in the Hyundai Sun Bowl last season and a 52-48 defeat to Texas A&M in the 2013 Chick-fil-A Bowl. A win against the Hoosiers would end a bowl victory drought of more than 50 years—the Blue Devils’ last postseason win since defeating Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl in 1961. “To be chosen to take part in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl brings an incredible level of excitement to our program,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said in a press release. “Playing in our fourth consecutive bowl game means a great deal to our past, present and future Blue Devils. This senior class is obviously a special one, and I could not be happier for a group of young men that has accomplished what no other class has done in the history of Duke Football with the four straight bowl game appearances.” Duke (7-5) won six of their first seven games before falling on hard times. Beginning with a controversial 30-27 loss to

Graphic by Matthew Conley | The Chronicle Duke will head to New York to take on Indiana in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl seeking to break through with a victory in its fourth consecutive postseason appearance.

Miami on Halloween night, the Blue Devils lost four straight games, including lopsided losses against ACC Coastal division champion North Carolina and Pittsburgh. But a 27-21 win against Wake Forest to finish the season helped restore the Blue Devils’ confidence heading into the postseason as they seek to stop a string of fourth-quarter mistakes that have cost Duke three bowl wins. “We’ve had leads in the fourth quarter in all of [our recent bowl games]. It’s been troubling to us,” Cutcliffe said Sunday on a teleconference with reporters. “We’ve played well in bowl games. We just haven’t finished

the deal and closed the door on a victory.” Although just three members of Cutcliffe’s squad hail from the Empire State, Duke has a large alumni base in New York. The Blue Devils snuck up into the Tier I level of ACC bowl games, jumping past the Panthers, who finished 8-4 and beat Duke 31-13 in Durham Nov. 14. Indiana (6-6) finished fifth in the Big Ten’s East division, but took several of the conferences’ top teams down to the wire. The Hoosiers lost one-possession games to No. 6 Iowa, No. 7 Ohio State and No. 17 Michigan while dropping their first six Big

Ten games but responded to close the season with victories against Maryland and in-state rival Purdue to become bowl-eligible for the first time in seven years. Like Duke, Indiana squeaked past Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, N.C., beating the Demon Deacons 31-24 Sept. 26. Quarterback Nate Sudfeld leads an Indiana offense with a penchant for putting up points. The senior has completed 60.7 percent of his passes for 3,184 yards and 24 touchdowns. Three different Hoosiers have at least four of those touchdown receptions, with Simmie Cobbs Jr. serving as Sudfeld’s favorite target. Indiana averaged 36.1 points per game during the regular season, but a porous defense let up slightly more at 37.1 points per game. “I’ve seen [Indiana] against Wake Forest. I’ve looked at their offense. They’re a big offensive club, you can tell they’re extremely well-coached,” Cutcliffe said. “Whether an opponent was considered a top 10 opponent, it didn’t matter. They played.” The Big Ten is known for its defense, but all signs point to an offensive shootout in the Big Apple. Duke’s offense put up 30.5 points per game and the Blue Devil defense—which ranked inside the top 10 into October—struggled down the stretch, giving up 38.8 points per contest in its last six games. The Pinstripe Bowl is one of the nation’s younger bowl games—dating back to 2010—and is among a small handful of bowls that are held in a baseball stadium. The bowl payout is estimated at $2 million per team.

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Gamecocks run past Blue Devils in fourth quarter Jake Herb The Chronicle COLUMBIA, S.C.—One year after dropping a heartbreaker to top-ranked South Carolina at home, the Blue Devils suffered the same fate on the road. The No. 2 Gamecocks defeated No. 14 Duke 66-55 at Colonial Life Arena in a physical matchup that pitted two of the nation’s best paint players against one another. Despite falling behind at the beginning of the second half, the Blue Devils rallied and challenged for the lead until the final minutes. But a late 11-0 sprint by South Carolina and 28 points from star forward A’ja Wilson guided the Gamecocks to victory, turning a one-point deficit into a 10-point lead. “Obviously, we didn’t do what we needed to do,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “It’s about playing Duke basketball for 40 minutes, and we did not do that. We really did not come close to doing that with that fourth quarter.” After shooting 50.0 percent from the

field or better in their last five contests, the Blue Devils (7-2) struggled to put up points against the Gamecocks’ stifling man-to-man defense. Entering the contest as Duke’s leading scorer in the backcourt, redshirt sophomore Rebecca Greenwell struggled to find a way past Gamecock guard Tiffany Mitchell, who held the Owensboro, Ky., native to just four points on 2-of-9 shooting and three rebounds. With their most productive guard stifled, the Blue Devils looked to other players to carry the team. Freshman guard Kyra Lambert rose to the occasion, finishing the game with a team-high 16 points and only one turnover. But despite the Cibolo, Texas, native’s career day, Duke headed home wondering what could have been after a fourth-quarter stumble turned the Blue Devils’ upset bid into a gut-wrenching defeat. The grit and persistence that Duke brought to the court in the first half vanished in the final period. The Gamecocks (8-0) outrebounded the Blue Devils 10-5 during the

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Motin Yeung | The Chronicle Sophomore Azurá Stevens battled with Gamecock forward A’ja Wilson all afternoon Sunday, but the South Carolina sophomore got the better end of the matchup, scoring 28 points.

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Toni Payne and Duke could not find much room to operate Sunday against Penn State.

W. SOCCER from page 1 exited Friday’s match against Florida State with a shoulder injury—was a spark off the bench, pacing Duke with three shots in the first period. The forward gave the Blue Devils their best look of the first half—a shot in the 30th minute that bounced harmlessly off the crossbar. “I think when I got on the field, my first instinct was to go at the outside back to try to spark something on our offense,” Dorsey said. “I looked to shoot it because I’ve taken a couple chances [like that] earlier this season and have gotten some good goals off [them], and

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just to keep the goalie on their toes— that’s a tough shot to stop.” The Duke defense—led by goalkeeper E.J. Proctor—held Penn State without a first-period score for the first time in the tournament. The Wilson, N.C., native made four saves Sunday and garnered Most Outstanding Player on Defense honors and a spot on the All-Tournament team, joining forwards Toni Payne and Kayla McCoy and versatile captain Christina Gibbons. “I think it’s nice for someone on our defense to get that recognition because it is due to the backs why we did so well this season,” Proctor said. “That was our focus all year, so it’s nice to see that pay off and make a run in the tournament.” Gibbons bolstered the back line and helped Duke hold the Nittany Lions’ leading scorer, Megan Schafer, without a shot in the game. Frannie Crouse— another lethal offensive threat in Penn State’s arsenal—posted only one. The teams traded shots for much of the second period and each attempted 11 for the afternoon. The Blue Devils missed a crucial opportunity to take the lead in the 62nd minute on an aggressive drive down the field by Payne. A pass from the junior intended for Dorsey instead went between the sophomore’s legs—into the possession of Penn State—and Duke failed to capitalize on a clean look at the goal. Rodriguez broke through 10 minutes later to give the Nittany Lions the lead, and Penn State thwarted Duke’s comeback attempts to secure the victory. The Blue Devils earned a corner kick with less than 10 seconds to play but could not set up the game-tying cross before time ran out.

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Goalkeeper Britt Eckerstrom solidified the Nittany Lions’ back line and finished the season without allowing a score after Nov. 1. For much of the game, it seemed the squads were destined for 90 scoreless minutes just like their last outing, which ended in a 0-0 draw Aug. 28. But Rodriguez’s finish inside the box in heavy traffic beat a diving Proctor—sending the Nittany Lions to the podium to hoist the trophy and the Blue Devils home just one win short. Duke will lose only one starter— midfielder Kara Wilson—to graduation, meaning this year’s young group of Blue Devils will be brimming with big-game experience heading into next season. “Looking at the stats and seeing how even the game was, we’re right there,”

Church said. “We lose one senior that started for us and a lot of really good seniors that did a great job in leadership. But the groundwork is there for us to make a return.” Duke’s strenuous journey to the title game included five straight wins against conference champions, three consecutive matches against No. 1 seeds and a pair of road games, including a cross-country trek to beat No. 1 Stanford. After an 0-22 start in the ACC, the Blue Devils turned around their season and nearly pulled off a grueling stretch that Church said showed the heart that has defined his team all year. “What an unbelievable run we’ve been on the last 10 games. We played as hard as we could,” Church said. “The team has been hungry to be great all year and they are—they are great.”

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battle from tipoff, Duke did not find itself at the charity stripe until 6:22 remaining in the third period. The Blue Devils finished the game with just 13 free-throw attempts, compared to South Carolina’s 28. “Just because a team is playing physical, doesn’t mean that a team has the right to play physical according to the rules,” McCallie said. “Aren’t those touches supposed to be fouls when people are beating on people with two hands?” The Blue Devils were also assessed two technical fouls Sunday, with the first coming amid a challenging stretch just before halftime. Looking to find some momentum after committing a turnover the previous possession, freshman point guard Angela Salvadores—who shot just 2-of-11 from the field—took the ball to midcourt and looked to set up a play. But on-ball pressure from South Carolina led to a Gamecock steal and a shaken Salvadores falling to the floor, drawing a sideline pep talk from McCallie. Seconds after the conversation ended, McCallie was whistled for a technical, sending South Carolina—already leading 28-22—to the free-throw line with less than a minute remaining in the second quarter. Salvadores herself was hit with a technical late in the game, which resulted in South Carolina taking a 52-50 edge with 5:03 remaining on the clock. The Blue Devils would never lead again. “We’re all going to take this game to heart,” Stevens said “That’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to learn from it, move on and use it to fuel us in further games.” Duke now takes a break for final exams and returns to the court at home against Massachusetts Dec. 14 at 7 p.m.

10-minute stretch and shot 58.3 percent from the field. Duke led 50-49 with 6:23 to play but did not score for the next 4:55 as South Carolina made its run. Postgame, McCallie said it was up to her players to decide if they are tough enough to respond to this loss. “Some people like to be applauded for a nice try, and some people take it very much to heart,” McCallie said. “I take it pretty darn personally.” The Blue Devils’ offensive challenges continued in the paint where sophomore forward and double-double machine Azurá Stevens was tasked with guarding Wilson. The sophomores were no strangers to one other after playing together on the U.S. national team at the FIBA U19 World Championship this summer. Sunday’s matchups brought both players together again for the first time since their championship run—setting up a highlyanticipated battle of the bigs. Stevens finished the first half a dismal 1-of-6 from the field and without a trip to the free-throw line, bothered by the size of the 6-foot-5 Wilson and 6-foot-4 Alaina Coates. Wilson kept the Raleigh native in check after halftime as well, limiting Stevens to nine points in the final two periods while going to work inside on the other end. Wilson’s 28 points came on 10–for-19 shooting, and she added 11 rebounds. “It’s hard when you play against a person that you know because they just know you well,” Wilson said. “It was a lot of fun playing against her. We have such similar games, so you really just have to dig down and find that separation to pull away.” Although the gamekakuro_499A.txt proved to be a physical

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o your black life does not matter.” –Nov. 13, Duke University On Friday, Nov. 13, President Brodhead held an open conversation in response to various racial injustices happening on campus and at institutions of higher education across the nation. The conversation took place at the end of the week during which student protests motivated by racial injustices at the University of Missouri resulted in the resignation of their president. During the conversation, students voiced concerns about discriminatory acts they have experienced first-hand on campus. Some referenced university

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We should have a policy that the next time someone b----es about their ‘quality of life’ they should be on the next bus to UNC… Oh wait the black [population] would be nil.” The sheer mass and virulence of these posts reinforces my position as an outsider on this campus. One of the main reasons why I chose to attend Duke was because of the diversity it promised. Duke advertised a nearly utopian campus where students from around the world came together harmoniously. As advertised on the Duke Student Affairs webpage for Culture and Identity, “Diverse backgrounds, beliefs and perspectives are a hallmark of life at Duke, an integral part of a liberal arts experience, of your experience. What you learn here

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proceedings such as those related to discriminatory statements within the Chronicle, the noose hung on campus last Spring and the defacement of the Black Lives Matter poster. Others shared instances of being harassed with the likes of racial slurs and even monkey calls. Each of the students expressed his or her belief that the Duke administration should be doing more to prevent such hate acts. President Brodhead, accompanied onstage by Provost Sally Kornbluth and Dean Valerie Ashby, declared that racial intolerance had no place at Duke, and he promised that the university would take steps towards prevention. Following the conversation, many discriminatory statements directed towards Black students were posted on Yik Yak—a social network that allows users to engage in discussions anonymously. First-year student Senita Portlock created an album on Facebook comprised of such Yaks. Initially the album consisted of more than a dozen Yaks. Now, however, the album contains over four-dozen Yaks, many of which were in response to the second Universitywide conversation. The second conversation, held on the following Friday, Nov. 20, came about as a demand by students at the first conversation, reason being that the first conversation occurred at 12:00 p.m., a time when most students are in class and were therefore unable to attend and share their voices. More than 150 Facebook users have shared the Yik Yak album, suggesting that it is indeed a problem that needs to be addressed. At Duke, African-Americans comprise only 10 percent of the undergraduate population. Many Black students including myself already feel isolated and wonder if we truly belong here: is our presence genuinely valued or are we simply being used to make diversity statistics more alluring to prospective students? Multiple Yaks perpetuated this thought: “If you’re black and you feel unsafe then just get the f--- out”; “Can we kick BSA [Black Student Alliance] and BLM [Black Lives Matter] off campus?”; “Why are these people allowed on campus?

about yourself and how you grow as a member of this community will help you throughout your life.” Within my first week here as a freshman, I realized that most of the friend groups forming contained students of the same race. At my high school—a public school in Baltimore, M.D.—students of all races were friends with each other; we all hung out together and shared the high school experience while unified. I was convinced this diversity would be heightened by a magnitude I couldn’t even fathom at Duke, and so far I have been let down. Diversity is possible. And not brochure statistics that merely translate to numbers but an inclusive campus where everyone is open to engaging fellow students regardless of their differences. Duke ought to prevent students from harboring such deep prejudices. In the same way all students are required to complete a Writing 101 class, there should be a mandatory half-credit cultural competency class for all first-years and transfer students. The class should expose students to various cultures in addition to debunking racial, gender and other prejudices that are unacceptable at Duke. This would allow such problems to be confronted and resolved at the beginning of a student’s time on campus, preventing him or her from continuing as problematic in the future. These Yaks certainly taint the idea of a truly diverse Duke being possible anytime soon. Sure, these viewpoints may only be held by a small number of students on campus, but the fact that they exist here at all is disheartening. Creating a cultural-competency class for all first-years and transfer students has the potential to prevent prejudice from manifesting into hateful acts against minority students. If people hold these stereotypes about one race, what prevents such prejudices from being held towards others? Stay woke, Duke. Danielle Holt is a Pratt freshman.

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’ve spent the last year studying oppressive language. My honors thesis in Public Policy (which I submitted on Friday!) explored how the language surrounding racial profiling, stop-and-frisk and use of force in the New York Police Department offers strategic policymaking insight. That is, what does studying the way we debate these problems tell us about the best way to go about fixing them? It just so

further toward actually accomplishing reform than will continuing to insist that the University capitulate to every demand. This will require distancing rational policymaking conversation from the often personal, emotionally-charged reasons for having those conversations. The fact that many minority students on campus describe their personal experiences of feeling slighted,

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spent most of a recent Saturday sitting inside my bedroom closet unable to move. For most of that week I had been trying to run away from my life and had ended up in my closet looking for my back-up plan—pills I had saved when I was sick over summer—to finally end my life. My current break down, like others before, caught me by surprise. All it took was seeing a post I had written my freshman year about sexual assault, urging people to sign a petition to increase the statute of limitations at Duke to protect victims of sexual assault in college. I

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happened that, as I was feverishly documenting the linguistic power struggle in New York City, a similar tug-of-war was unfolding on campus. The very same communication issues that impeded police reform in New York City plague efforts to address institutional inequality on the Duke campus. New Yorkers, whether they supported or blamed the police, all wanted less crime. We, as a community, all want less discrimination and, certainly, less hate. Our problem is the same as New York’s, where police and citizens subject to police action were each trying to prove their moral superiority over the other. Neither side was willing to give each other the benefit of the doubt. Endless argument over whether racial discrimination even existed, what was causing it and who to blame prevented productive conversations about change. The police claimed that protecting citizens against crime was their primary mission, but advocacy groups argued that it was the police that people needed protection from. The parallels are not difficult to draw. The Duke Administration maintains that the University seeks to protect students and faculty from bias and hate. Those who issued the “Demands of Black Voices” claim that the University itself is complicit in perpetuating a biased and even hateful environment. The student advocates did not give the University the benefit of the doubt when they issued what amounted to an ultimatum at the most recent forum—imposing yes-orno responses and refusing to allow President Brodhead to ask a question of them. Yet, at least in that setting, the University would not give student protestors the benefit of the doubt either; administrators offered the same overly evasive answers—even to a softball of a proposal to rename West Union after Julian Abele, the prominent black architect who designed all of West Campus’ gothic splendor. Granting many of the other demands would require extending benefit of the doubt by, for instance, trusting students not to abuse recognition of mental health incapacitation on STINF forms. The current police reforms underway in New York were initiated by court order, which seems to have jolted both sides into accepting that they both want progress and that progress is not a zero-sum game. The new NYPD policy narrative treats respect for individual rights as a key tool for crime-fighting; the trust that emerges from mutual respect allows officers to gain information and cooperation necessary to improve conditions on the ground and apprehend criminals. Correspondingly, student advocates here at Duke need to recognize that establishing mutual respect to serve a common purpose will go much

overlooked and victimized from the perspective of their particular racial, sexual and gender identities absolutely helps initiate the right conversations. It contributes to the critical “problem recognition” stage of policymaking. However, carrying over those sentiments into the “policy formulation” stage actually inhibits finding the most fruitful, feasible paths to change by alienating other stakeholders. I asked Chronicle columnist and Editorial Page Editor Jonathan Zhao, a vocal critic of both the premises and means of student advocacy in public forums this semester (and himself a minority), about the pros and cons of leveraging one’s personal identity in argument. His response sheds light on why policymaking debates that are fraught with identity politics often end in gridlock. “Using identity as a way to discredit others or to validate your own viewpoint is nonsensical,” Zhao responded in an e-mail. “Sure, being of a certain identity, whether it’s race, gender or whatever else, might help to inform your view, but it is no substitute for real argumentation which is borne from logical conclusions built upon evidence. Being a member of a particular identity does not entitle you to sole speaking rights over issues that affect your identity group. And using identity as a crutch for argumentation only serves to Balkanize people and alienate those that otherwise might agree with you.” This is precisely why student advocates need to check their offense at the door when engaging with the Administration and recognize that achieving their goals will require presenting sound arguments founded on logical principles of justice and morality—and recognizing that there might not be such an argument for each and every demand they have presented. Furthermore, if one party in fact holds the moral high ground, they should not need the acknowledgement of an opposing party to validate that fact. The fact that both sides—Administration and students—have sought external recognition of moral superiority suggests that neither side actually holds the exclusive moral high ground. The Administration and the students demanding change do not have a court ordering them to change narratives in lockstep, so someone has to make the first move. Given the way each side has advocated thus far, it seems the ball is in the students’ court to drop the pretense of intractable outrage, acknowledge a shared goal of improving this university and thus engage with President Brodhead’s new task force on rational terms—which will mean acknowledging the obvious rationality of working together. Lauren Forman is a Trinity senior.

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hadn’t realized then that, by my senior year, I would be one of these women after being assaulted, drugged and raped on more than one occasion. Seeing this younger version of myself triggered something deep in me, and for the second time in less than a year, I was drawing up ways to die. I spend my weekends studying for law school exams and trying to ignore the sounds of trains and cars passing by my apartment, both of which I’d like to throw myself in front of. On nights when I am not too afraid to fall asleep, I have nightmares so violent my shaking body wakes up my boyfriend. Sexual assault is so common on campus that the stats have become normalized or are focused on, with people often forgetting that there are real women, lives and stories behind the numbers. Rape, used as a weapon in the most atrocious wars, is so prevalent that it is part of the American college experience. It would make no difference to me if I were one in five or one in eight, what matters to me is the women on campus, too many of whom I know personally, that this university has failed to protect. The environment on campus is toxic. After my first assault, it took an apology from the boy who assaulted me before my story was believed. Knowing this, I could never speak about how I got raped after that, because who would believe me? I had allowed someone I knew and trusted to buy me a drink, and the next thing I remembered was waking up in his bed naked with my vomit caked into my hair. I only realized where I was when I saw his frat’s flag hanging over the bed. This is my business, but it is Duke’s business too. Aside from my mental health

issues—my GPA after the rape is 1.0 lower than it was before—I still remember sitting in classes trying to ignore the pain from sitting down after my rapist tore me. I remember being afraid I would bleed through my underwear even after the bleeding had stopped because the pain was unbearable. I remember thinking these things while trying to still get participation points or listen to my professors talk or focus on staying awake after another sleepless night. There are a lot of resources on campus

to help mitigate the effects of sexual assault, but these are set up to help you after you have been victimized. Duke simply does not do enough to prevent it. Soon, we will be bombarded with emails about hazing at the start of next semester, with an urgency that has never been given to sexual assault. I truly love this university, and the reasons I attended are still as clear to me as they were when I got here, but the personal cost has been too high. The amazing professors I had who supported me when others assumed I was unintelligent or uninterested helped me grow as a scholar in spite of the system in place, not because of it. Something has to change; we have to pressure the Duke administration to be proactive about sexual assault on campus rather than just reactive to scandal. We often pride ourselves on “the Duke difference” and being a “world leader in education and innovation.” It is about time that we do the same when it comes to student safety. There are already some avenues on campus (such as bystander intervention/ PACT training and Women’s Center events) that can be better funded and expanded. My mom cried over Fall Break telling me she missed my laughter, and my dad asked what happened to the girl he dropped off in Jarvis four years ago? Why have I become a shell of the woman I was? The answer is simple—it is because they dropped me off at Duke, an institution more concerned with protecting its reputation than my life. The author has chosen to remain anonymous due to the personal nature of this column. The author’s story has been independently verified by both The Chronicle’s Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Page Editor.

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