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Austin Rivers’ buzzer-beating 3-pointer. Jabari Parker’s 30-point outburst. Tyus Jones’ late-game heroics. In the last four years, those are the players who have etched their names into Tobacco Road rivalry lore. Who will be next? After a two-week hiatus from the top 25, No. 20 Duke has jumped back into the rankings on the back of two straight wins against ranked opponents. The Blue Devils now face their toughest test of the season, though, and will make the familiar eight-mile trek to Chapel Hill Wednesday to clash with No. 5 North Carolina at 9 p.m. at the Dean E. Smith Center in the latest installment of college basketball’s premier rivalry. Although the Tar Heels boasted a 133-107 advantage through the first 240 contests, Duke has had its way of late. See M. BASKETBALL on Page 12

Trio of juniors announce bids for DSG president Alex Griffith The Chronicle Juniors Annie Adair, Tara Bansal and John Guarco have announced their campaigns for the presidency of Duke Student Government. The election will be held from March 1 until March 2 and will elect a replacement for current president Keizra Mecklai, a senior. A new DSG Executive Vice President will also replace Guarco and a new Student Organization Funding Committee Chair will replace senior Nikhil Gavai. The three presidential candidates have each held roles in DSG as senators,

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Student Alliance in a “transformational rather than transactional way.” While a member of DSG, she helped to push for the C5 bus route this past summer to complement the new C4 bus created by Parking and Transportation Services. She also focused on revising the Young Trustee nomination process during her time as chair of the YTNC. Bansal is currently the DSG Vice President of Academic Affairs. Her platform is centered around making voting easier for students in an election year, increasing non-DSG presence on student committees and influencing the ongoing curriculum review process— including expanding student options for pass/fail classes and adding a new

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‘RoboCop is coming’: Pratt’s Wadhwa predicts human jobs will be replaced IBM Watson is now analyzing cancer data and it can diagnose different types of cancer better than humans can. Already for some types of cancer, AI [Artificial Intelligence] tools have an edge over human beings. In the next five years or so, you’ll see that it becomes mandatory to have AI analyze that type of data because if you don’t and a human makes an error, that person will get sued, so we’ll rely on AI more and more. I’d rather trust an app over a human being any day. I don’t want to talk to some old guy who makes me feel good. I want the hard data and I want solid analysis. I don’t care about the human touch. Your generation is more into technology than my generation was. Your generation already communicates through technology; you don’t need the face-to-face interaction anymore.

Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle The Chronicle’s Neelesh Moorthy spoke with Vivek Wadhwa, adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Engineering and director of research at the Duke Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, to discuss potential job losses in the future as a result of technological change.

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The Chronicle: How did you get involved in studying issues of job loss due to technology? Vivek Wadhwa: Ray Kurzweil [a computer scientist and futurist] and I had some debates about it, because for the longest time I was saying that automation is doing all of this damage, and he was saying we’d figure it out and it would be okay. I debated him and over the last two years I have looked at the trends and the data and my conclusion is that Ray is wrong, that he is being an optimist without justification and that along the way we’re going to have many problems and he’s ignoring them.

TC: Could you state your conclusions and how you got there? VW: My observation is that we are eliminating many jobs now and we won’t be able to train the workforce, and Ray’s argument is that it’s always been like this and we’ve figured it out before and we’ll figure it out again. Looking at the pace of change, starting with self-driving cars that can now do the jobs of Uber drivers, taxi drivers, and truck drivers, that’s millions of jobs lost over there. What do we do with these people? Many of them are not retrainable for the technology economy and we’re not going to be able to create new jobs for them within five years or so. The more I look into it, the more I’m convinced that change is happening too fast, disruption is happening too fast, jobs are being wiped out too fast, and the fact that we’re still in denial about it and not acknowledging that this destruction is happening gets me worried. We should instead be talking about how can we minimize its impacts or come up with a safety net or retraining program and create as many new jobs as we can and spread the prosperity. We are not having these discussions.

TC: What about generating new knowledge and discovery? VW: There are massive amounts of information in data right now, sensors everywhere and cameras everywhere, which could do much better investigations than any human beings could because they can crunch massive amounts of data. They could look at every indication of what’s going to happen, historical records, all assimilated and analyze it much better than any human being.

Special to The Chronicle Pratt adjunct professor Vivek Wadhwa thinks robots will be doing basically all human jobs by approximately 2030.

VW: We’re talking about 15 to 20 years, in 2030 or so. We will have mass unemployment. In the meantime, we will see specific sectors like transportation being disrupted, but in 2030 that’s when we see robots basically doing all of the jobs of human beings. TC: What type of data are you looking at? VW: I’m just looking at the trends, the different technologies and how fast they’re advancing. Hard data doesn’t exist on this subject. The data says that because we created all of these jobs using technology a hundred years ago it’ll be okay in the future, and I’m saying that just because it happened in the past doesn’t mean it’s going to happen now. Before it was one thing happening over decades, but now it is one thing happening and its happening over years.

TC: How likely are digital doctors? TC: Is there a date by which the majority of human VW:The technology has not been developed jobs will be eliminated? yet. It’s in development right now. For example,

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TC: What does this progression look like? What does 2030 look like? VW: It’s going to be industry by industry. In the 2020s, you are looking at jobs of taxis and drivers and anyone in the transportation industry being eliminated. In the 2030s, the vast majority of knowledge jobs that require intelligence will be eliminated. Politicians are typically good at preserving their jobs, though. In the military we already see robots and killing machines that can do warfare, so I doubt we’re going to see that [human military jobs]. RoboCop is coming. We’ll have AI writing AI, so computer science isn’t even safe, but we need to learn it because for the next 10-20 years it’s a language like reading and writing, and it will be beneficial to have it. The vast majority of human jobs are done by machines, you have robots serving us. You have AI that is teaching us and guiding us. Just like we use technology to enhance ourselves—we use glasses and prosthetics— we will use new technology as well to enhance us. We will basically start blending in. We are now connected to social media, and we’ll be more connected than ever and meeting people in virtual worlds. We’re heading to the Star Trek type of future. See WADHWA on Page 16

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Students combat stigmas during NAMI mental health awareness week Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Following student concerns about mental health on campus toward the end of last semester, the topic continues to spark discussion. Duke’s second annual mental health awareness week—which occurred last week—was put on by Duke’s branch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and included activities that aimed to spread the world about mental illnesses, such as a anxiety and depression, among college students. More than half of college students nationally said they have experienced “overwhelming anxiety” and 31 percent reported they had felt “so depressed it was difficult to function” in the year leading up to a Spring 2013 survey by the American College Health Association. Approximately seven percent reported that they had seriously considered suicide. Although many students acknowledged the ongoing campus-wide efforts to improve dialogue surrounding mental health, others pointed out that the more general issue is about the campus climate, which some believe continues to promote a culture of perfectionism. “There’s definitely a stigma,” said junior Hannah Kim, noting that she thinks it is hard for students to acknowledge mental illnesses to themselves, let alone to other people. Junior Sarah Clark also said that many students put up a “front” to disguise the issues they are facing. Mental health awareness week aimed to familiarize students with NAMI’s efforts

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and other resources available on campus and push for further administrative efforts in addressing mental health issues, said Doan. Sophomore Alex Doan, fundraising chair for NAMI, explained that NAMI’s goal is to create a more cohesive campus that is accepting of those with mental illnesses. “I want to show students that people will come together for mental health,” Doan said. Doan added that a few events put on

during NAMI’s awareness week—including a letter writing event in which students could compose encouraging notes and a mental health edition of the popular show “Me Too Monologues”—have received positive feedback. Clark said projects like “What I Be” and NAMI’s mental health week—both of which specifically target college students—have helped improve mental health awareness on campus. Several students noted that NAMI’s

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When Kennedy Meeks arrived at ACC media day in late October, he was handed a North Carolina polo shirt for the day’s endless loop of interviews, press conferences and video shoots. The only problem—the XXXL shirt provided for the Tar Heel big man was too baggy. “He told me he wore an extra-large, and I told him ‘No, I don’t think you wear an extra-large, because I wear an extra-large,’” sophomore swingman Justin Jackson said that day, glancing at Meeks, who was surrounded by reporters at the next table. “He put on the three-X, and it was actually too big for him, and I said, ‘Alright, I’ll take my comments back.’” Meeks said he dropped 15 pounds in the offseason, and is listed at 260 pounds on North Carolina’s roster, a full 30 pounds lighter than the freshman who arrived in Chapel Hill in 2013. After missing seven games in the middle of the season with a knee bruise, the center has returned to the starting lineup, teaming with senior Brice Johnson to form one of the more dangerous frontcourts in the country. That size up front could be a problem for No. 5 Duke Wednesday night in Chapel Hill. But then again, it could open up a favorable matchup to exploit. With Amile Jefferson sidelined by a fractured right foot, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski has transitioned Brandon Ingram to become a power forward of sorts, even though the lanky 6-foot-9 freshman still spends much of his time on the perimeter. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it is—a year ago, the Blue Devils went small, with 6-foot6 freshman Justise Winslow sliding to forward and Jefferson coming off the bench to complement Jahlil Okafor. At 225 pounds, Winslow had the

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Brandon Ingram and Brice Johnson both start at forward for their respective squads, but possess very different skill-sets, making for an interesting strategic battle in the Duke-North Carolina matchup Wednesday night.

strength to go toe-to-toe with Johnson on the block. Ingram’s slim 190-pound frame will be tested against Johnson, who leads the team in scoring and rebounding with a nightly double-double. The Tar Heel forward has been held to single-digit points just three times all season, and erupted for 39 points and 23 rebounds against Florida State’s pair of 7-foot centers Jan. 4. Meeks is averaging 10.8 points per game in his own right, and 6-foot-9, 235-pound Isaiah Hicks is just a shade behind him with 9.6 points per game off the bench. “North Carolina, really, they’ve always looked into the post. They should this year with Johnson, Meeks and these kids who are really good. They can complement them with depth and talent on the perimeter. We’ve got to be concerned with foul trouble, rebounding, how we defend that,” Krzyzewski said on a teleconference with reporters Monday. “I don’t know if

Austin Peer | The Chronicle Brandon Ingram scored a game-high 25 points—at one point notching 18 straight Duke points—in the Blue Devils’ win against Virginia, taking his defenders out to the perimeter.

there’s one answer. It’s difficult because that’s why they’re so good. They’re as good as anybody in the country.” Krzyzewski said he hoped freshman Chase Jeter would be able to play effectively off the bench to spell Ingram and center Marshall Plumlee down low, but the depth-strapped Blue Devils will need Ingram to stay out of foul trouble against some of the biggest, most physical bodies in the ACC. “For us on the offensive end, we’ve got to do a nice job and make sure that those guys get low position so they can use their size as an advantage when we’re bigger than the other guy and force them to play inside,” North Carolina head coach Roy Williams said during the ACC’s weekly teleconference. For starters, Duke has to contain the Tar Heels on the offensive glass. Although No. 5 North Carolina had just one offensive

board in Sunday’s rout of Pittsburgh, Williams’ squad grabs 13.3 per game and could threaten a Duke team ranked 183rd in the nation in defensive rebounding. The Blue Devils were outrebounded 16-10 by No. 7 Virginia through the first 20 minutes Saturday, but flipped the script in the second half to win the battle 3426 by game’s end. All seven of Ingram’s rebounds came after intermission. “It’s a mindset where we have to have all five guys rebounding—from Marshall all the way to Derryck [Thornton] at point,” sophomore Grayson Allen said. “Us guards have to collapse down and find a body to block out and get those loose-ball rebounds that bounce around, so we have to do the same thing against UNC. They’re a really big team, they crash the offensive boards hard and it’s See INGRAM on Page 13

Chronicle File Photo At 6-foot-8 and 200 pounds, sophomore Justin Jackson is North Carolina’s version of Brandon Ingram and averages 12.1 points per game for the Tar Heels.

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Blue Devils, Tar Heels both in grueling part of schedule Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle To be the best, you have to beat the best. The saying may be old, but for defending national champion Duke and ACC leader North Carolina, it holds true as both teams are in the midst of their toughest stretches of the season. Facing a four-game stretch against ranked opponents, the No. 20 Blue Devils have responded to the lessons taken from a span of four losses in five games earlier in the year, bouncing back with a 72-65 win against then-No. 13 Louisville and a thrilling 63-62 victory against No. 7 Virginia last week. The path does not get much easier, though, as Duke heads back on the road to face the No. 5 Tar Heels Wednesday before traveling to Louisville for a rematch with the Cardinals. “We’ve been in a lot of close games, a lot of fights that have come down to the last few possessions. We’ve been on the losing end of some, and thankfully now on the winning end of some,” sophomore Grayson Allen said. “For us as a team, I think we’re really coming together.” Although the Blue Devils seem to have found their identity during their fourgame winning streak, it remains to be seen how North Carolina will fare as the stakes are raised. The Tar Heels play three games in the next seven days, with four of their final six conference games coming against ranked opponents. Despite racing out to a 10-2 start in the ACC, North Carolina has only played one ranked opponent ACC play, and faltered on the road at then-No. 19 Louisville Feb. 1. By taking advantage of their frontloaded schedule, the Tar Heels have built confidence as a team and developed a style of play they are comfortable with on both ends of the floor. But after the first Tobacco Road rivalry game of the year, North Carolina has its hands full with No. 11 Miami and No. 7 Virginia—the two league contenders right below the Tar Heels in the ACC standings—

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Duke is riding a four-game winning streak into Wednesday’s matchup against North Carolina, which is still searching for its first conference win against a ranked opponent.

waiting in the wings. “We had some fortunate games for us early and now we’ve got the teams in the top half of the league in almost all our games down the stretch,” North Carolina head coach Roy Williams said during the ACC’s weekly teleconference Monday. “We don’t feel the pressure of being on the top of the league because we realize it’s an 18-game schedule. We’re trying to be the best team we can be every day on game day.” Two things the Tar Heels do have working for them as the schedule strengthens are experience and depth. Unlike the Blue Devils—who have just six healthy players averaging more than eight minutes per game—North Carolina boasts a roster with nine players above that mark. Perhaps even more significant is the disparity in experience. Duke relies on three freshmen—Brandon Ingram, Derryck Thornton and Luke Kennard—for heavy minutes, but all nine Tar Heels rotation players took the court a year ago against the Blue Devils. Despite its youth, Duke made just enough winning plays in its last two games to emerge

with victories. Now 25 games into the season, a once-fragile team has moved away from talking about what it does not have and instead is focusing on what it does. Although they may still be without senior Amile Jefferson, the Blue Devils sport one of the top offenses in the nation, scoring nearly 84 points per game. “As we’ve gone further and further in conference [play], our guys have been thinking about what we have to do and making spontaneous corrections, instant corrections, on the floor, instead of waiting until halftime or end of game,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said on a teleconference Monday. And that ability to adjust is exactly what Duke has working for itself come Wednesday night. Even though it enters with the better record, North Carolina—by Williams’ own admission—has not played up to its capabilities of late. Although the team got back on track Sunday with a 21-point win against Pittsburgh, the Tar Heels narrowly escaped on the road against Boston

College—which remains winless in the ACC—the game before, and dropped road contests against Louisville and Notre Dame during the first week of February. But the same cannot be said about the Blue Devils. Duke enters the first meeting between the teams playing its best basketball of the season, with the tandem of Brandon Ingram and Grayson Allen combining to score 45.3 percent of the team’s points. With the improved play of Thornton along with flashes from Kennard, Matt Jones and Marshall Plumlee, the Blue Devils enter Wednesday feeling as good as they have all season. “The momentum began against N.C. State,” Jones said. “I feel like the games up to that point had been learning experiences, and then against N.C. State we put a couple of things together. To be able to pull those games out with the toughness and togetherness that we’ve had shows a lot of poise on our part.” With a win Wednesday, the Blue Devils’ train of momentum could continue to chug on toward the ACC tournament. But things will not come easy against a veteran Tar Heel squad looking to build up steam of its own.

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Belton out for season after suffering second knee injury Staff Reports The Chronicle Redshirt freshman Lyneé Belton will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury, the program announced via Twitter Tuesday afternoon, further depleting an already-thin Blue Devil frontcourt. Belton was averaging 2.7 points and 3.0 rebounds in 10.6 minutes per game prior to the injury. She did not travel to Duke’s game Sunday at Wake Forest and will have surgery Thursday to repair a torn meniscus. For the second straight year, Belton’s season ended abruptly, after the Clinton, Md., native tore the ACL in the same knee December 17, 2014 in a win against Oklahoma. Graduate student Amber Henson, junior Oderah Chidom and sophomore Erin

Mathias now stand as Duke’s only three healthy post players, but have combined for just 14.7 points per game. The Blue Devils’ leading scorer and rebounder— sophomore Azurá Stevens—has missed the past four games with a torn plantar fascia in her foot, and junior Kendall Cooper is not enrolled at Duke this semester. Belton missed the first three games of the season, missed two games in midJanuary due to an ankle injury and did not play against No. 3 Notre Dame Feb. 1. The Blue Devils have dropped three of the four games Stevens has missed, and will now be depth-challenged for the rest of the season as they fight to secure an NCAA tournament berth. Duke has nine healthy players, with freshman guard Haley Gorecki sidelined since Jan. 3 by a hip injury. Duke will try to break a three-game losing streak Thursday at Virginia Tech.

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INGRAM from page 4 going to be a fight down there to block out and get rebounds.” But for as much damage as the Tar Heels could cause Duke down low, they will face an equally perplexing challenge on the other end. How North Carolina tries to guard Ingram will go a long way toward dictating the tempo, flow and, ultimately, the outcome of Wednesday’s game. Against the Cavaliers, Ingram started 0-of-3 from the floor, then erupted for 18 straight Duke points to help the Blue Devils claw their way back from an 11-point first-half deficit. The Kinston, N.C., native got so hot that Virginia head coach Tony Bennett switched 6-foot-5 star Malcolm Brogdon off of Grayson Allen and onto Ingram in an attempt to slow him down, and though Ingram did cool off, he wound up with a game-high 25 points. Ingram will have an edge against Johnson and Hicks if he can lure the larger Tar Heels out onto the perimeter, where they have less experience guarding

opponents on an island. The swingman victimized Virginia forward Anthony Gill in the same way Saturday late in the first half as he started to heat up, hitting a 3-pointer from the left wing on one possession, then pump-faking and driving past the larger Gill for a two-handed dunk soon afterward. “Brice and Isaiah have to be able to get on the floor and play the guys and get a hand up on the shot and still be able to play the drive and not get beat on a direct cut,” said Williams, who recruited Ingram heavily but now has to devise a scheme to slow him down. “If you get beat and make him make a banana cut, you have the opportunity to get some help.” Sticking Jackson on Ingram would match up players with similar length and skill-sets, but would likely force the Tar sudoku_520B Heels to go small, voiding their advantage in the post. North Carolina has plenty of 5 Jackson, 4 Marcus 3 perimeter weapons in 5 6 Paige and Joel Berry II, but2 keeping two 1 bigs on the floor at all times could give 9 Duke the most grief, provided they can 7 limit Ingram’s explosiveness. 8 4

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M. BASKETBALL from page 1 The Blue Devils swept both games last season and have now claimed victory in seven of the last nine without dropping two straight to their rivals in more than a decade. “The thing that makes this rivalry is ultimate respect, respect at the highest levels. I’ve seen that for 36 years, and I learned about it even before that,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Our players and their players know that they’re very fortunate to be in the programs that they’re in and just like the coaches, we realize that…. We also understand the history and the excellence of each program, and the manner in which it was achieved.” Just a few weeks ago, it looked as if Duke’s season was teetering on the brink, but the Blue Devils (19-6, 8-4 in the ACC) have rebounded and enter Wednesday riding a four-game winning streak. Sophomore Grayson Allen has powered

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the resurgence, leading Duke in scoring in three of those four wins—with the lone exception being Saturday against No. 7 Virginia, when he banked home a runner at the buzzer to send the Cavaliers home with a loss. Allen logged just 15 total minutes against North Carolina last season, but along with freshmen Brandon Ingram and Luke Kennard has combined to give the Blue Devils a dangerous perimeter attack that drives the nation’s second-best offense, as measured by basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted offensive efficiency rankings. “Duke is a team that has five guys that can beat you, and yes, Grayson Allen and Brandon are the leading scorers, but Luke Kennard has got 30 in one game this year and Marshall [Plumlee] has shot 75 to 80 percent in three or four games this year,” North Carolina head coach Roy Williams said on a teleconference Monday. “Matt Jones can shoot it from the 3-point line. You’ve got to guard all five guys.

You’ve got to be able to guard the penetrate and dribble because Grayson, probably more so than anybody in college basketball, is able to get the ball to the basket with a combination of agility and leaping ability and strength and get to the free-throw line.” North Carolina (21-4, 10-2) ranks sixth in Pomeroy’s metric, but in contrast to the Blue Devils, will feature a veteran lineup very similar to the one that took the floor last year. The Tar Heels boast depth that Duke sorely lacks, with all five starters scoring in doublefigures and 6-foot-9 forward Isaiah Hicks not far behind with 9.6 points per game. The undisputed leader for North Carolina is senior point guard Marcus Paige. Paige burst onto the national scene as a sophomore to average 17.5 points per game and earn All-American status, and though he has been hampered by injuries this year, the Marion, Iowa, native is still the top perimeter threat for the Tar Heels and the player Williams will look to should the game come down to the wire. “[Paige is] a great player and considered one of the best players in the ACC, and rightfully so. He’s been playing at a high level for a couple of seasons now. He’s a good player and he can really shoot the ball,” Allen said. “As a team, we have to know where he is at all times. We know he can be matched up on different guys with the ball being pushed in transition and switching, so we all have to be aware and keep an eye out for him.” North Carolina’s biggest strength is its frontcourt, which happens to be the Blue Devils’ primary weakness. Senior Brice Johnson has taken a huge leap forward to average teamhighs with 16.4 points and 10.0 rebounds per game, and Duke has already struggled with other quality power forwards this year in the

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likes of Utah’s Jakob Poeltl, Notre Dame’s Zach Auguste, Syracuse’s Tyler Roberson and Wake Forest’s Devin Thomas. Junior Kennedy Meeks complements Johnson down low as the other 6-foot-10 Tar Heel starter. At a bruising 260 pounds, Meeks will combine with Johnson to attack the glass against center Marshall Plumlee, the Blue Devils’ lone true post threat and defender. In the absence of injured captain Amile Jefferson, Duke struggled to rebound early in ACC play, but has adjusted in recent weeks, thanks in large part to Ingram’s continued development. With a rangy 6-foot-9 frame and a skillset that rivals that of most shooting guards, Ingram poses a matchup problem for nearly every team. After some early-season struggles, the Kinston, N.C., native has lived up to his billing as the nation’s No. 3 recruit, posting 17 straight games with at least 14 points and ranking fifth in the ACC in scoring during conference play. The Tar Heels, though, have a player with talents like Ingram’s. At 6-foot-8 and 200 pounds, sophomore Justin Jackson scores 12.1 points per game and shoots nearly 50 percent from the floor, with a similar blend of quickness and versatility. The combination of force and finesse those two display is hard to find, and how they battle on the wings could well determine which side takes the first round in this year’s Tobacco Road bout. “Two of the things that are impossible to teach and coach against unless you have it are length and quickness,” Krzyzewski said. “[Ingram and Jackson] have both of those— they have length and quickness. They have really good instincts for the game…. I think both of those kids are long, quick and they’re strong—internally and externally.”

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he latest round of Duke’s very own Me Too Monologues wraps up on campus this week with Thursday’s monologues for contingent faculty. Me Too has become tremendously popular on campus, overcoming self-selection problems that previously concerned us. With hundreds of attendees, its stories now reach and hopefully resonate with a diverse cross-section of our student body. We worry however that, through no fault of its own, Me Too can represent a strong but short-lived inoculation in discourse surrounding identity, struggle and vulnerability. Though anonymity best allows authors to not hold back and to fully challenge viewers to think about how life at Duke can be hard, there surely needs to be push for more ways to bring these issues into daily conversation. There is also a danger for inoculations of this kind to become a type of commodity, offering social capital in exchange for reception of the program’s message. As a recent guest opinion column put it, “If the campus-wide effects of Me Too Monologues can’t extend past the two brief hours it takes to hear a story, claim to ‘get it’ and then move on, it’s not enough.” Inoculation becomes pacification without careful reflection

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and motivated action if students feel they have done enough just by attending an event. It risks making the problems and the challenging search for solutions seem easy because we have merely achieved awareness. Much of Duke’s culture teeters along this line between superficiality and depth. This is the danger of students valuing education and Duke as routes to the workplace over development of an entire person–it risks being deep and results-

Editorial oriented in one way but shallow in others. Even with post-show discussions offered, Me Too attendees are tempted to evade the hard work of responding to the identity issues they see shared. This means building that vulnerability into their relationships and communities, developing a personhood where one can be open about struggle and consider reflection as a means of overcoming and growing. At Duke, we need more spaces, especially academic ones, to think critically about the human condition. Why, at Duke, do we so often foreclose life– in all of its depth, its complexities, its staggering

amount of both challenge and joy–during its most important formative stage? Why do we insulate, atomize and retreat from the relations around us and the possible communities that we could develop here? Perhaps, we are scared of contradiction: strong and weak, smart and naïve, hopeful and cynical, joyful and depressed. Life has an inevitable variety. It is okay to be a consultant as well as a flawed human being. Duke should find many ways to at once celebrate this variety all the while creating many forums to talk about the vulnerabilities and challenges of coming of age at university. Joy lies in overcoming life’s challenges, not in suppressing them. So, why do we so often settle for the boring steady-state of effortless perfection with the high cost of avoiding emotional challenges until they become unsustainable? Me Too is a way to alleviate a culture that undermines itself in its promise of such perfection, but it is not enough alone to fix this culture. In fact, it seems more a relief for symptoms than a solution for ailments without students taking up the call to action. We need new ways to break the fourth wall–the boundary between actors and audience–every day on campus.

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y host mom tugs at my conga, telling me for the third time since we got there to take it off. “People are going to know you are a foreigner if you don’t,” she warned. Instead, I pull it tighter around my body, trying to use every last piece of the vibrantly colored, multi-purpose fabric to cover as much exposed skin as possible. Although I had been warned long ago that I should leave my conservative “American” bikini back at home, I was not expecting what was all around me. The beach is packed with women of all ages, shapes and sizes in very small Brazilian bikinis and men in equally small bottoms. They proudly flaunt their bodies with all the confidence in the world and without fear of

girls feel pressured to be a certain weight. This is not to say that Brazilian women do not face challenges of adhering to a different ideal of beauty—plastic surgery is rampant there—but it does mean that there is something different about the freedom given and felt by society to be comfortable in your one’s own skin without fear of judgment. Brazilians don’t grow up trying to hide their bodies; they are taught to embrace them. Though ideals of beauty are still very much a thing on Brazilian culture, the convention of beauty being a “perfect,” slim body simply does not exist. This is why 70-yearold women who have given birth to five children can stand next to a 20-year-old soccer player in the same

Sofia Stafford LIFE AFTER ABROAD judgment. While my strong feminist side was saying, “you go girl, rock that bathing suit, you are amazing,” my female 20-something-year-old self raised in a body conscious, body-shaming society was taken back by this outward display of confidence. Despite my best efforts, I too had fallen into the trap. I vividly remember this first trip to the beach in Salvador. I, along, with the majority of the city, headed to one of the city’s beaches to spend another Sunday soaking up the sun and occasionally dipping into the freezing ocean to cool off. But this trip to the beach provided the much-needed culture shock—the realization that the way our society views the “ideal body” and what people feel they can and cannot do when their body does not fit into this category is not the universal world-view. It might seem obvious since we can all probably see it on Duke’s own campus, but it has become so naturalized that its hard to step back and see it as a problem worth changing. This notion of an “ideal,” perpetuated by media, affects our sense of self and, perhaps unconsciously, our critique of others. As I write this, I am ashamed at how shocked I was during that initial trip to the beach. Nonetheless, after living in Brazil for nearly four months, I came to recognize a thing or two about Brazilian women that I think American women could stand to learn. The beach in Bahia exposed me to the Brazilian culture and way of life, while allowing me to be in a position to view the U.S. culture with an outside perspective. We know the staggering and all-too-familiar facts about the way in which body image affects college women. According to dosomething.org, in the U.S. approximately 91 percent of women are unhappy with their bodies and resort to dieting to achieve their ideal body shape. Only 5 percent of women naturally possess the body type often portrayed by Americans in the media. 58 percent of college-aged

bikini without hesitation. The expectations of what women should and should not wear depending on their body type and the judgment that stems from that when women do not meet those standards is just not something prominent in their culture. I would often sit and watch TV with the eightyear-old girl who lived next door to me in Salvador. One of the first times we watched TV together, High School Musical came on. I remember how her face changed to a puzzled, almost sad look as she turned to me and asked why women in American movies are all so small and “straight.” What she meant by this was why does our media predominantly portray images of thin, slender women, painting them as the “ideal” or “normal?” Even as an eight-year old growing up in Brazil, Bruna is keenly aware of the portrayal of women in American media. It is easy to see the impact it could have on her if she were surrounded by these messages 24/7 as we see its effects throughout American society and potentially world-wide. I wish I could say that I can transplant these values back into my life at Duke and be confident in my own skin regardless of what I am wearing or were I am, but it is hard to change values so engrained, so normalized within our culture and even more pronounced in a place like Duke. However, I can make small changes. I can choose to focus on feeling strong while being aware of how judgment—both in giving and receiving—impacts the way in which we view ourselves. I can choose not only to be proud of my body but also to treat other women who are proud of their bodies as leaders instead of anomalies. And I can continue to be open to learning from new cultures because, as my classes in cultural anthropology have taught me, our way is not the way. Sofia Stafford is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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ongratulations! As a conservative at Duke, you are Privileged™.* Unlike the majority of students, you will learn how to engage constructively (not to be confused with Enrage™) with an opposing argument. You will often be frustrated because your attempts to Advocate™ for Marginalized™ communities will be Silenced™ by those who do not respect minority ideas. However, you will learn that, while approaches like mandating Implicit Bias

a great way to get a C+ (I’ve seen it happen). Liberals may deny that this Discrimination™ exists, but that’s only because their liberal Privilege™ allows them to erase from their Narrative™ the Struggles™ of any group that is not Liberal-Approved™. Now, outside the classroom, you may have slightly more Autonomy™ to express your genuine beliefs. However, on our Oppressive™ campus, there are still rules you must follow if you wish to be Politically Correct™:

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After Scalia, what next?

he political world found itself upside down this week with Saturday’s sudden passing of Justice Antonin Scalia. Suddenly, the election has become a referendum on both the executive and judicial branches of government. President Obama wields more power than most lameduck presidents, and the future of the Senate hangs in the balance as republicans play another round of brinkmanship with the government. Amidst all this turmoil, why should the average citizen care about the Supreme Court? Aside from simple civic

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Training™ for all students (to recognize bias against conservatives) and creating identity affinity housing (a Safe Space™ where conservatives can be around like-minded students) seem tempting, they will only create a more divisive community in which Ignorance™ about conservative ideology perpetuates itself. In order to become accepted by liberals, you can neither DEMAND™ their understanding nor can you disengage them by publishing an Un-UnChronicled™. Your only hope is to be Liberal-Approved™. At first, you will be labeled as a Bigot™ regardless, but luckily for you, I’ll teach you how to be Liberal-Approved™. If you plan to follow in the footsteps of the legendary Jonathan Zhao, you can stop reading now, but if social acceptability is important to you, listen up. Here’s the first rule: 1. You cannot publicly voice conservative ideas. If you do, a mob will personally DEMAND™ that you be removed from campus positions. If you are a white male, you will be informed that you, “need ‘reeducation’” because people of your race and gender identity were likely, “horrible people before they arrived on campus” because they are, “the most racist, uncaring and cruel portion of the population.” You might feel Marginalized™ by not being able to express your opinions freely. Normally, I would tell you to STINF class because you are incapacitated, as that is a Liberal-Approved™ solution (see 6B from the “Demands of Black Voices”). I wouldn’t counsel you to consider constructive alternatives because that would undermine your Narrative™. But there’s a catch: 2. Liberal-Approved™ solutions only apply to Liberal-Approved™ groups. As a conservative, you are automatically not Liberal-Approved™, even if you have other Liberal-Approved™ characteristics (like how Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are not Latino enough). Now, assuming that you go to class despite being Victimized™, I must warn you that the quest to be Liberal-Approved™ does not end once inside the classroom, specifically for classes taught by liberal professors. Uncoincidentally, these are the vast majority of classes at Duke, because as Philosophy Professor Robert Brandon pointed out, “We try to hire the best, smartest people available. If... stupid people are generally conservative, then there are lots of conservatives we will never hire.” He later walked back this statement, telling students who want more conservative professors to, “Study hard, do well in school, go on to get a Ph.D. and get yourself a job teaching at a university.” Although I agree this is a fair solution for the Underrepresentation™ of conservatives in academia, one might wonder whether he would say the same to students today who DEMAND™ racial quotas for faculty. In any event, your plans to lift up the forgotten in our society through conservative policies are not Liberal-Approved™, and thus must not be mentioned in the classroom. Only once I graduated could I publish the secret that allowed me to maintain a 3.94 GPA at Duke (out of fear I would’ve been Discriminated Against™ had I Come Out™ earlier): 3. Pretend that you are a liberal for your grades. Don’t attempt to contribute to meaningful discussion, voice your actual opinions or encourage a Culture™ of intellectual openness. If you do, that is

4. You are only allowed to have an opinion on an issue if you have the corresponding LiberalApproved™ characteristic related to that issue or if you support the Liberal-Approved™ opinion. (For example: A minimum-wage earner is allowed to have an opinion on the issue. Anyone else is not unless he/she/ze/they supports raising the minimum wage to $25/hour). Now, there’s another catch: even though liberals say you are allowed an opinion on the topic if you fit their qualifications, in practice you actually still aren’t allowed to have an opinion unless your opinion is Liberal-Approved™. (For example: A racial minority student who speaks out against protesters’ militant tactics risks being called a “traitor to his race.” Latinx™ students who disagree with the Mi Gente’s DEMANDS™ may be accused of perpetuating a “puppet narrative,” as if they have no autonomy to think for themselves). If you really want to undermine the liberal ideologarchy (ideology hierarchy, not to be confused with Patriarchy™), break it down step-bystep. Help others understand that true conservative ideals are not based on Islamophobia™, Homophobia™, Racism™ or other forms of Bigotry™, but rather are just as concerned as liberal ideals with ending injustice and helping others. This understanding takes time, which leads me to the final rule: 5. Find things you can agree with liberals on and then challenge Microaggressions™ that present themselves. A diligent approach over time will get liberals to become Tolerant™ of your conservative identity. (For example, when liberals mock a conservative female’s appearance, tell them this sort of Sexism™ is not Tolerated™ and mention the Progressive™ notion that women have the Agency™ to determine their own political opinions, which is why they won suffrage in the first place). This is the single most important rule. Unlike attempts to stifle Discrimination™ against conservatives with DEMANDs™, calling for the resignation of liberal campus leaders or limiting the free speech of liberal students, following this rule can create lasting Change™ and a better future for all Duke students.*** *Words and phrases with the ™ symbol are trademarks of the Democratic Party and may not be used for any other purpose than furthering the liberal agenda. **If you think this violates your First Amendment rights, joke’s on you, because the First Amendment is not Liberal-Approved™. ***Actual disclaimer: While I recognize that problems of racism, sexual assault and other terrible injustices on campus are on the surface more urgent than the problem of ideological discrimination, I honestly believe that no meaningful progress on those issues will come if “social justice”—everyone’s goal—continues to be seen as synonymous with “liberal.” I beg you to acknowledge our shared goals, so that we can create a more Inclusive™ campus Dialogue™ to create lasting Change™ for all students. Also it would help if you stopped monopolizing half the words in the English language. Victoria Treboschi, Trinity ‘15, is a Research Technician at the Duke Eye Center in the Department of Ophthalmology.

engagement, the impact is greater than it might appear at first glance. To begin, we must examine the man who cast this issue into the spotlight. Justice Antonin Scalia was the most polarizing justice on the bench for the last three decades. Nominated by President Reagan in 1986, Scalia spent his career advocating for his philosophy of “originalism.” Originalism, he believed, meant that the Constitution should be interpreted exactly as how it was publicly understood at the time of its creation. It is not, as many claim, a living document that exists within the context of the current era but rather an unchanging text that should be interpreted only by the words on its pages. Conveniently, this philosophy allows for a conservative interpretation on the biggest issues facing the court. But beyond his polarizing legal philosophy, he is remembered as a decent man by his peers. Fellow associate justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg counted him among her closest friends, even though they disagreed passionately about nearly every legal issue they confronted. Scalia also developed a close relationship with Obama appointee Elena Kagan, even taking her hunting several years ago. Scalia’s absence will no doubt leave a void in the personal relationships formed among the select members of the high court. But the void extends beyond personal relationships to the functioning of the court as well. Without Scalia’s conservative vote, the court finds itself split 4-4 along philosophical lines. In most cases, the court will continue to function as usual since a majority opinion carries the same weight no matter how many justices sit on the court. His absence opens up the additional possibility, however, of a tie vote. Although unlikely, a tie vote remains a serious possibility, especially given the politicallycharged cases on the court’s docket. In the event of a tie, the lower court’s ruling is upheld, and the high court issues what is known as a per curiam opinion. Whereas a majority opinion sets precedent for the entire nation and future courts, a per curiam sets no precedent. Instead, the document briefly explains what the court thinks and ultimately leaves the issue open for a future court to set precedent with a majority opinion. Aside from the logistical issues, Scalia’s death opens a whole new political can of worms. The constitution mandates that the president nominates justices, which the

Senate then considers for confirmation. Following Scalia’s death, President Obama indicated his intent to nominate a candidate as soon as possible. Republicans in the Senate, however, contend that Obama should defer to his successor the job of nominating the candidate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has also indicated that, if the president does indeed submit a nominee, the Senate will categorically refuse to consider the nominee. Although this may, at first glance, appear another case of Republican obstructionism,

there is in fact some historical precedent to their stance. A justice has not been successfully nominated in an election year since the Hoover administration. Justice Kennedy was nominated in 1987 and confirmed in 1988. So although he was confirmed in an election year, his nomination occurred the year prior. Republicans claim that the American people should, through the election process, indirectly determine the next nominee. Of course, the historical record does not mandate the Republican position that nominees are a non-starter. I maintain that the president should exercise his constitutional right to nominate someone and that the Senate should hold confirmation hearings and give the nominee an up-or-down vote. President Obama’s election in 2012 gives him the prerogative to exercise his nomination power until the day he leaves office. While Republicans may argue that their 54-seat majority in the Senate is a mandate from the people, nominees deserve at least a fair hearing and a vote. Nonetheless, Republicans have staked everything on preventing a successful confirmation before the election this fall. Indeed, their firm stance forces them to maintain that position until after we know the new composition of the Senate as well as a new president. The position is a huge gamble. Should they loose public support for their stance, Senate Republicans could see significant losses in the November elections. On the other hand, if they succeed, they will maintain the balance of political ideology on the Supreme Court. Senator McConnell may in fact be willing to sacrifice the Senate for the court. The Senate comes and goes, but the composition of the court lasts for decades due to lifetime appointments. The stakes are simply that high. Given that all this occurs in an election year, of course the candidates have to chime in as well. From both sides of the aisle, they all support their party’s stance. It is unlikely that we will see any change in positions over the next few months. Obama will, undoubtedly, nominate someone to the court. The question will be whether Republicans will be able to risk ignoring it until the election. Unfortunately, it does not appear that the court nomination will bring together the fractured elements of our political system. Politics will always be politics. Brian Hopkins is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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CANDIDATES from page 1 vice president of the DSG Senate. His campaign will focus on six general goals, rather than individual projects: sexual assault prevention; justice and fairness in student conduct; increasing campus green spaces and energy efficiency; increasing campus diversity; improving student health; and continuing to work on curriculum review. “I wanted to focus on these six pillars rather than individual policy goals, because often changes don’t come about on a holistic level,” Guarco said. Guarco said that during his time in DSG, he was involved in changing University sexual assault policy to include victim amnesty—where drug or alcohol use by the victim of an assault will not be held against them in the investigation process. Guarco

has also pushed for increased access to birth control for students and decreased use of neonicotinoid pesticides on campus. The election will be held from noon March 1 until noon March 2. An instant runoff system will be used, similar to the one employed in the recent YT election. Students will rank the candidates in order of preference, but are not required to rank all the candidates for their vote to count, said DSG Attorney General Robin Zhang, a senior. Juniors Ilana Weisman, current DSG vice president for equity and outreach, and John Turanchik, who was a senator for facilities and the environment in 2014-15, are running for Executive Vice President. Juniors Alexa Soren and Neshmeen Chronicle File Photo Faatimah and sophomore Gwen Geng Some students note that CAPS’ efforts are not enough to improve the mental health climate on are running for SOFC Chair. There are no constitutional amendments campus. on the ballot.

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WADHWA from page 2 TC: How could people stop this from happening? VW: I think in the 15-20 year time frame this technological change is inevitable. Human revolt is also inevitable. Already you have pushback with foreigners taking domestic jobs, these battles brewing. It’s just going to accelerate even more. It’s unstoppable. TC: What type of safety net were you referring to earlier then? VW: We need to have a minimum basic income because the cost of everything will be dropping due to abundance, that’s the good news. We will be able to afford all our daily needs, so let’s give everyone the money they need to live good lives.

TC: Why should people go to college right now if they are looking at a jobless future? VW: Because for the next 10 to 15 years rarely take advantage of them. “There’s a sense that people don’t want you want to be employed and one of the to own up to [their problems],” he said. beneficiaries of the technology change “We need to work on acknowledging that and not a casualty of it. Because there will mental health issues are more pervasive be jobs for the 10 to 20 years, but the jobs are for the educated and the skilled, the than they seem.” Others, however, pointed out a greater creative and the bright, and you want to be in that category. Eventually, we’ll head issue with Duke’s campus culture. “[Counseling and Psychological into a knowledge economy, which is about Services] is great but we need a school- enlightenment and teaching culture, wide change,” junior Hannah Schwennesen music and the arts. I don’t know if that’s a said, describing the current atmosphere on job or what you would call it. campus is “cutthroat.” TC: What jobs survive? NAMI plans to address these issues by VW: We would still care for the elderly, continuing to host events and working with do social service, build new cities. They the administration to educate faculty and will be robotocized as well but you still staff about mental health, Doan noted. need some humans to work alongside “There are people here who care the robots. It’s not black and white. Its [about students with mental illness] and not that every job disappears, but the Special to The Chronicle we want to show there are people who majority, maybe between 50 to 70 percent care,” Doan said. Juniors Tara Bansal, John Guarco and Annie Adair will vie to replace DSG President Keizra Mecklai. disappear.

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