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Content warning: This story includes a detailed account of sexual harassment. The Chronicle has changed the name of the students with an asterisk next to their name due to the sensitive nature of the story. Their harassers have also been given different names or not named upon the students’ request in fear of retribution. “If you just put a frog in boiling water, it jumps out. But if you slowly turn up the heat, it stays in it until it dies.” That’s how Anne* described her experience with one professor in the religious studies department, George,* last Spring. For Anne, who was enrolled in George’s class during her last semester as an undergraduate, it was small things over time. Anne told The Chronicle that by the end of the semester, George had created an uncomfortable environment for her by talking about her appearance and regularly asking her before and during class to get coffee. Another student in the class also noted that George made inappropriate comments towards Anne. “I started dreading going to class, because every time I walked in the door he had a comment about what I was wearing—if I wore a normal outfit and mascara, I looked ‘lovely’ and if I wore a sweatshirt he would say ‘surely [you] are heading to the gym,’” she said. “He asked me to meet for coffee one-on-one to ‘pick my brain’ most weeks, too, which I declined again and again.” At approximately 9 p.m. the night before Valentine’s Day last year, Anne got an email seen by The Chronicle from George that she felt was improper. “Ever since our first meeting, I was impressed with

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your keen intellect and unusual maturity. Every additional meeting has only confirmed those early impressions. I feel privileged to share a small portion of your college experience and just wanted to let you know,” he wrote. “I look forward to sharing the rest of the semester with you and reading some of your written work.” Anne said she went back and forth about whether George’s behavior was inappropriate. At points, she thought he could just be an overly-friendly old guy. But then, in March, George asked Anne for a hug—something she was decidedly uncomfortable with. “One day after class he walked up to me and said, ‘I’m sad, can I have a hug?’ I stood there frozen, with no idea how to respond to the request—I stood there awkwardly while he put his arms around me,” she wrote. But by the end of the semester, Anne said she felt so uneasy about his behavior—which she said he made during most classes—that she would get to class exactly on time and dart out as soon as it was over. She also started not participating in the class. “I was just so worried that he was just going to pick on me, and say things about me or make comments about my appearance that I just felt so uncomfortable that I would just sit there taking notes and be totally silent,” she said. “Then, when I would do that, he would come and sit next to me and lean over my desk and look at my notes.” Anne decided not to file an official complaint with the Office of Institutional Equity—which handles harassment and discrimination complaints—but shared her experience See HARASSMENT on Page 3

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Duke Law to Chesterfield building downtown to begin open new First holding biomedical engineering classes Amendment clinic in August By Shannon Fang Staff Reporter

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The Duke Law School recently announced plans for a new First Amendment Clinic to help people who claim their rights to free speech have been violated. Led by law professor H. Jefferson Powell, the clinic will allow law students to work with both individuals and organizations that cannot afford legal representation. Opening in August, it will primarily focus on First Amendment claims, such as advocating for the right to speak at a public university or defending against libel or slander. “This is valuable for Duke as whole because we live in a time where many people would recognize the First Amendment is of central importance,” Powell said. “It’s a time when these issues are front and center.” Powell has a notable background in constitutional law, serving twice as a lawyer in the U.S. Department of Justice where he worked as the deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel and as the principal deputy solicitor general. He has also briefed and argued cases in state and federal courts as well as the U.S. Supreme Court. Funding for the clinic will come from the Stanton Foundation, which supports First Amendment rights and advocates for a more informed citizenry. The foundation will also hire a lawyer with constitutional law expertise to serve as a teaching fellow and supervise students. The Stanton Foundation approached the Law School about providing the money to set up the clinic, explained Andrew Foster, clinical professor of law and director of experiential education and clinical programs. “We’ll be doing a lot of work with media organizations and reporters advising about their rights under the law,” he said. See CLINIC on Page 3

A trek to downtown Durham may soon be necessary for some students. In December 2017, the newly renovated Chesterfield building opened on West Main Street—about a half-mile from East Campus. Duke sponsored the renovation project, and the University now leases about 100,000 square feet of the building for life science lab space. The two courses—BME 464L and certain sections of BME 790L—are holding their lab portions in the building, starting this semester. The fourth and fifth floors of the Chesterfield are dedicated to the Pratt School of Engineering, including a teaching space for biomedical engineering. Mark Palmeri, associate professor of the practice of biomedical engineering, noted that the building includes a 3,200-square-foot design suite where he holds the lab portions of his design and medical instrumentation courses. Palmeri is currently the only professor with classes at the new building. His undergraduate and graduate students do not meet in the Chesterfield space for their lab class, but they access the lab whenever needed during the week. He explained that students may go during traditional work hours or evenings, for two to six-plus hours per week, depending on the project. “The space is a stellar upgrade because it’s much larger, so we have a much larger footprint than the other ad-hoc space on campus. It’s also equipped with the latest generation equipment to allow students to really not be impeded by any of the instrumentation that they have to use,” Palmeri said. The building will also house the Bioengineering Research initiative to Develop Global Entrepreneurs program (BRiDGE), which provides accessible lab resources for bioengineering startup companies for Duke students and faculty. 2,000 square-feet of space are dedicated to this program, with six companies currently utilizing the new facility. The Chesterfield will also be used over

the summer for the BME Design Fellows independent study course, where students pursue BME-focused summer internships at companies in Durham. These students will be able to use the new lab space to assist in their work and independent study, which continues through their senior year. Senior Kevin Mutchnick, a student enrolled in BME464, said he has had a good experience with the building so far. At first, being downtown seemed like an inconvenience, he said. However, Duke’s free Uber program was extended to include the Chesterfield, which he said was critical to having lab downtown. Without the free Ubers, “it would be a different story,” Mutchnick said. He said he understands the Chesterfield commute can be inconvenient for students— especially if they schedule their trips right before or after other classes. However, he noted that his professor and the hours he works at the lab are flexible. Mutchnick said being off campus during the day is also a nice change of pace, and the facility is nice because it is brand new. Moving into the building was strategically beneficial since it will help the BME department grow their curricular offerings, Palmeri explained. Previously, there was a

one-semester senior design class. Now, there is a first-year semester-long design class and a year-long senior design experience. Additionally, he stated that the design and instrumentation courses have been popular among graduate students. “As we grow into both expanded senior capstone design courses and augmented graduate-level design offerings, there definitely was a need to have more lab capacity to accommodate all those offerings,” Palmeri said. He said he is also excited to work with the growing medical device community in Durham and having a teaching lab close to these companies. The downtown space allows the students to have greater exposure to job and learning opportunities that were not as accessible in the on-campus labs. With outside companies leasing space in the Chesterfield, the new space is “injecting additional opportunities” for students, Palmeri noted. It allows students to find internships and have interactions with BME companies year-round. “There are actual biotech companies in the building that are also there with the Duke labs, and it’s a cool insight into what the biotech industry is like,” Mutchnick said. “I wasn’t expecting that.”

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Powell added that the clinic will give students handson experience, allowing them to represent and advise clients and be involved in litigation. “One of the distinctive features of an education at Duke is the integration of active learning and legal education,” he said. “I’ll be in charge of making sure both sides—the experiential and academic—come together.” Four students will work in the clinic each semester next year, but Powell noted that it will mostly likely include more as the Law School spread the word about the program and take on more clients. Second and thirdyear law students will be chosen through a lottery system, with a preference for third-years. The clinic will mostly work on First Amendment cases in the Southeast. In addition to helping litigation, the students will provide advice to journalists with concerns about free expression rights. Although the First Amendment also includes protections for freedom of religion, the clinic will focus on the spheres of freedom of speech, press and assembly. For instance, they might represent a citizen who had been thrown out of a county commissioners meeting for expressing a viewpoint that the commissioners didn’t agree with. Powell explained that one of the best features of the clinic is that it will provide free representation for those who cannot afford it. The program also expands the Law School’s offerings as its twelfth legal clinic. “We’re trying to always give our students the opportunity to do complex lawyering and problemsolving in relevant areas,” Foster said. He noted that the First Amendment is critical within our constitutional framework, especially in today’s world where freedom of speech is under attack in many realms. “This will give students the opportunity to speak about the role of speech in civic society and the ways in which the legal system can support and enhance speech or not,” Foster said. “Through that critical analysis, we can help them launch off into their professional careers with what many would see as a core value of our profession and society.”

with OIE and various religious studies department administrators. OIE decided to follow-up on Anne’s concerns with an investigation that included an interview with George. “During his interview, the instructor denied engaging with you in an inappropriate manner,” concluded an OIE investigation. “He also denied some of the incidents you reported. The instructor acknowledged using phrases that were personal or intended to engage with students, but explained they were not used in a romantic or sex based context.” The outcomes Anne was not alone in her experience. Esther*, a graduate student, also faced harassment in the form of creepy emails and unwelcome touching from a male superior, who was found to have “more likely than not…violated the Duke Harassment Policy” through an OIE investigation. She said that she did not want to publicize the details of her story in fear of retaliation from the University. Both Esther and Anne’s alleged harassers are still at Duke and interacting with students, based on LinkedIn, DukeHub and Duke websites. In fact, George taught classes in Fall 2017 and is currently teaching this semester. For Esther, termination of her harasser was the only appropriate solution. “If he is found responsible, I think he should have been fired because it’s a highrisk situation for him to interact with other female students,” Esther said. For Anne, a just outcome didn’t necessarily include George’s termination. “I’m not saying that they need to fire him

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or to put him in jail or anything like that,” she share with Esther the sanctions placed said. “I’m really just saying, do the things you on her alleged harasser. Both Anne and need to do to keep your students safe because Esther found the lack of transparency to that’s what a university should do.” be problematic. She suggested that more useful “At the very least, I think sanctions University responses would have been should be required for anyone found further training for George, monitoring responsible and I think the process of his classes and collecting student for deciding those things should be evaluations tailored to his behavior. It transparent for the person filing the claim,” is unclear whether any of these or other Esther said. sanctions were placed on George following According to page 14 of the OIE an OIE investigation in his behavior. The Harassment Policy and Procedure, the office Chronicle reached out to George for this will notify the parties of any sanctions that story and he declined to comment. “relate directly to them” and will verify that “As a result of the garnered information, remedial actions have been implemented. It we have reported them to the appropriate dean,” the OIE investigation What #MeToo is doing in making this into George’s behavior space for talking with each other is saying concluded. the experiences are all different, but David Morgan, professor of religious they’re all as important as one another. studies and chair of the department, wrote esther in an October 2017 GRADUATE STUDENT WHO WENT THROUGH THE OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL EQUITY’S SEXUAL HARASSMENT PROCESS email to Anne that the University’s response to her complaint went beyond what was in OIE’s letter, but didn’t does not say OIE will inform both parties give any specifics. of sanctions. “I believe your concerns were frankly Another aspect of the process that was explored,” he wrote.“Moreover, as department troubling to Esther was not being able to chair, I can assure you that the entire matter talk to an objective, non-Duke affiliated has signaled to me the importance of diligent advocate present during the process. Both monitoring and proactive consideration of Anne and Esther interacted with Cynthia matters of sensitivity to gender dynamics in Clinton, assistant vice president in the OIE the classroom. The need to continue learning and director of harassment prevention and about this is ongoing, and the experience special projects. you’ve had has underscored the fact. Record“It shouldn’t have just been me and a keeping is also a significant take-away.” Duke lawyer,” Esther said. “That’s an unfair Morgan did not respond to a request for power dynamic, where she tells me what I comment in time for publication. should be doing and I agree because I’m traumatized from this experience.” Issues with the OIE process See HARASSMENT on Page 4 Like in Anne’s case, OIE did not

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HARASSMENT FROM PAGE 3 Esther noted that this is where a graduate student union would have been helpful as they might have been able to provide her with an advocate. Clinton, however, wrote in an email to The Chronicle that the office doesn’t push people in any direction regarding decisions they have to make during the process. One such decision is whether to go through the informal or formal process. The informal process, which should take no longer than 45 days, is when OIE and/or the respondent’s department in consultation with OIE conduct an investigation. The formal process, which should be completed in 60 days, is when a threeor five-person panel adjudicates the case. One factor that deterred Esther from choosing the formal process was having to appear in the same room as her alleged harasser. Clinton wrote that such a requirement is to ensure fairness. “The procedures for the formal hearing process were adopted with the intent to protect the rights of both parties and to assure

a fair process,” she noted. Still, even if a complainant chooses the formal process, the hearing panel can decide that the case should be handled via the informal resolution process. When asked on what basis a hearing panel would make that decision, Clinton wrote that it was “case-by-case.” Clinton wrote in an email that the office does not “discourage or encourage complainants to use a specific process”—informal or formal. OIE’s Harassment Policy and Procedures, however, does include benefits of the informal process, stating it is generally “more expeditious and less polarizing than the formal process.” In fact, Clinton noted in an email that “a very small percentage of complainants elect to use the formal complaint handling process.” During the OIE investigation, there was a no-contact agreement between Esther and her alleged harasser. As part of that agreement, Esther had to inform a third party if she needed access to a certain building that her alleged harasser worked in. Through that process, he would be told that he wasn’t allowed to be there at that time. Esther found this provision troubling.

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For all others, a complaint must be filed “no more than year after the most recent conduct alleged to constitute harassment.” “I think it’s ridiculous and it benefits only faculty and staff in superior positions to graduate students,” Esther said. “I think it’s horrific, especially for graduate students because we’re here working with [staff] for so long. Undergrads, you’re here for four years, which is a really long time. Grad students are here for upwards of nine or ten years.” Esther submitted her complaint four months after the most recent harassment incident and Anne talked with OIE about two months after. Clinton wrote that the time limit is “intended to support the integrity and effectiveness of an investigation.” “While the Office for Institutional Equity may grant a reasonable extension of any other deadline established in the following procedures, the one year limit in which complainants may submit an allegation or complaint shall not be extended,” the policy states. However, Clinton noted that OIE could initiate a complaint after a year. The policy states that this can be done “if the nature of the allegation or complaint is particularly egregious,” which will be determined by OIE, and as long as OIE initiates the complaint within a year of the learning about the incident. #MeToo and preventing sexual harassment Both Esther and Anne felt there isn’t enough being done at an institutional level to prevent sexual harassment. Currently, all Duke employees have to undergo online training modules regarding harassment when they first get hired by Duke and occasionally after, according to the Duke Human Resources website. For Esther, the training isn’t an “effective or meaningful” preventative measure. “I don’t think there are any institutional preventative measures, except for an online module that we have to take before teaching, which you just click through the PowerPoint presentation and you’re done,” she said. “There’s no in-person sort of orientation that makes harassment a knowable thing that we can also see and provides a community for addressing it.” Esther said it was hard for her to even know if her experience was enough to merit a complaint. She said the #MeToo movement, which has sprung up in the last few months and included sexual assault and harassment allegations against prominent figures in United States, gave credence to her experience. “What #MeToo is doing in making this space for talking with each other is saying the experiences are all different, but they’re all as important as one another,” she said. Esther also felt that graduate students are particularly at risk of sexual harassment given their position at the University and the various workplaces they inhabit. In the 2015-16 academic year, about 19 percent of female graduate students and 6 percent of male graduate students reported experiencing sexual harassment, according to the Duke University Student Experiences Survey. “Harassment and discrimination don’t stand alone,” she said. “Harassment and discrimination emerge from issues of class discrimination, race discrimination, gender, trans-, and presentation discrimination, religious discrimination, linguistic discrimination, ability discrimination, all these things that Duke or any kind of structure of oppression, whether it’s the advisor/ advisee relationship, the general faculty and student relationship, male/female relationship—that deem some people powerless and some more powerful—that allow harassment to happen and for people to get away with it.” Anne wrote in an email that there was an “upside of all this mess,” which is having an “opportunity to keep changing our institutions.” She added that more transparency in the process would benefit everyone. “Ideally, everyone would feel like they were playing from the same rule book, one in which we are all able to learn and do great work with everyone feeling safe and cared for, without playing guessing games or going behind the scenes,” she wrote. “I think administrators want that as much as survivors do, and now we have to go through the hard work to make it happen in a way that centers around survivors, women of color, trans and [gender nonconforming] folks and workers.” If you have had experiences with sexual harassment or the Office of Institutional Equity that you would like to share with The Chronicle in a confidential manner, please contact Likhitha Butchireddygari at likhitha.butchireddygari@duke.edu.

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A few weeks ago, an order for 25 threeby-five Shutterfly photo prints arrived at my door. The photos were mostly Instagram photos that I needed to occupy my empty picture frames, which had sat vacant on my shelves all semester. Nearly all of them were posed photographs of me and my friends taken on an iPhone camera. Unlike film photography, iPhone photos are disposable, economical and ubiquitous, so printing them allowed the ephemeral digital renderings to possess tangible sentimental value. Most of the photographs detailed this past semester and my senior year of high school. As I flipped through the prints, I felt a sense of despondency for a time that was and will never be again. The moments are frozen in time — from stumbling upon a sunflower patch over the summer to my senior prom. Each moment will eternally exist and will never exist again. I will be turning 20 this year. Every year, without fail, I cry on my birthday. There usually isn’t a particular reason for it — but an overwhelming wave of despair washes over me every fourth of December. It is possible that I am experiencing a sense of loss — the loss of my childhood on my 18th birthday, the loss of another year of life, perhaps. “Photographers are agents of death,” Roland Barthes wrote in his seminal inquiry into the essence of photography, “Camera Lucida.” Barthes believed in a photograph’s power not only to freeze moments in time but to capture subjects in either a mummified or fossilized state devoid of both life and motion. Barthes’s concept of the temporal paradox of photography lies in our attempts to make photos lifelike to certify reality — a delusion in his eyes. But by shifting this reality to the past, the photograph

suggests that it is already dead. Barthes exploration of death and photography was a bit hard to conceptualize at first (and to an extent it still is), but on occasion my mother will show me pictures of my grandfather before he succumbed to lung cancer. Most of the photographs are candid shots of him smiling or laughing with a mischievous glimmer in his eye. I was still very young on the occasion of his death. We sparsely visited Algeria, so I did not know my grandfather very well, but I recall him sneaking candies and chocolates to me when my mother and grandmother were busy in the kitchen, as they so often were. When I see photographs of my grandfather, I

staff note often project the dwindling memories I have of him upon the photos. I ascribe a new life to someone who is long gone, and much like Barthes details, he becomes simultaneously living and dead, perpetually approaching his fate. Scrolling through my Instagram feed, I examine each photograph that has documented my teenage years, ever since I was 13 years old. Nearly every photo is an assemblage of friends, past and present, with smiles plastered on our faces, in neat rows staring at the face of the camera. Unlike photography for art’s sake, my photographs are not subject to Proustian semiotics; each photo was carefully

curated, cropped and edited to acquire social validation, none with any inherent artistic attention to detail. Our orchestrated poses seek to convey contentment with life. We play into the social game whose rules state that we must constantly be surrounded by others and enjoying ourselves. Love and belonging are third on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and considering most of us at Duke have access to necessities, being loved and accepted by our peers becomes a high priority. One of the more obvious ways we attempt to convey our need for love and acceptance is through social media. But do our social media profiles also confirm the linear trajectory of our own mortality? Susan Sontag touched on the ubiquity of the photograph in “Plato’s Cave” well before the age of the iPhone camera, asserting that photographs are used with the intention of certifying an experience, yet operate to withhold that experience. Rather than absorbing a moment in its entirety, we seem to have an urge to put the camera between the experience and ourselves — not merely to preserve what is there, but also to provide the illusion of participation. Although it isn’t likely that I will stop taking photos anytime soon, I certainly will remain aware of the occasion and frequency at which I photograph my surroundings. If photographs capture and reflect death, I will strive to counter the effects through being present for what remains of my life. Even so, I prefer to regard photography as a chronicle of my life and who I am. I don’t plan on being remembered for anything profound or revolutionary, but I hope the photographs of myself and my life can convey some semblance of meaning. —Sarah Derris

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For many on campus, Valentine’s Day is just another Wednesday By Sydny Long Staff Writer

Valentine’s Day at Duke University is like viewing a typical Wednesday through rosecolored glasses. Students still trudge dutifully to class, but a handful hold shiny balloon bouquets or walk arm in arm with their significant other. The tables lining the Plaza distribute heart-shaped cookies along with pamphlets and petitions. West Union serves the usual fare with the option of booking a romantic dinner for two at The Commons Steakhouse. Even those who don’t have a date for the holiday seem to enjoy the free candy and the themed desserts available at Marketplace. For a campus so diverse and so widely varied in its celebration of holidays, everyone appears to at least have something to enjoy on this sweetest of days. “I think Valentine’s Day culture here is what you make of it,” first-year Katlyn Hurst said. “I had friends who went on dates, but I also had friends who just hung out as if it was any other day. I think most people here on Valentine’s Day takes it as an opportunity to eat lots of candy, study for midterms and watch Duke basketball.” Junior Quinn Baker had a similar perspective on the holiday. “I kind of forgot that it was Valentine’s Day until I got back to my common room and checked my phone — it wasn’t really on my radar,” she said. Although the holiday itself may not seem especially important to some, it is still celebrated in several different forms — and there are several ideas as to how it could be addressed here at Duke beyond sweets and signs.

“Using the day as a way to talk about heteronormativity and how we view bodies, and sort of the different forms that love can take,” Baker suggested, bringing attention to the fact that most Valentine’s Day decor at Duke is decidedly heterosexual. It can be difficult for same-sex couples to enjoy the holiday when so much of the activity is centered around heterosexual romance. Additionally, the activities offered based on the holiday are aimed exclusively at couples, with little emphasis placed on the other kinds of love that Valentine’s Day celebrates, such as platonic affection and the love one feels for their community. “There are so many different kinds of love, so I guess just even encouraging people to appreciate all their loved ones is really important,” first-year Mac Gagne said. Even though Duke itself focuses primarily on the romantic aspect of the holiday, there is no shortage of friends spending the day together and exchanging candy or funny cards between classes. Placing more importance on friendship might makes the single students at Duke feel more at home and remind the community that love does not have to be amorous in nature to be honored with hearts and chocolate. The way the day is celebrated also overlooks the fact that for some, their significant other is not present with them on campus. Hurst is one of many students here at Duke in a long-distance relationship, which can make celebrating the holiday somewhat challenging. However, Hurst makes the most of the day in spite of the distance and still enjoys what Duke has to offer.

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“I celebrated Valentine’s Day with my boyfriend by having a FaceTime date,” she said. “We sent each other presents and sat and watched each other open them. Of course, we wanted to be together in person but we know in two weeks, six days and 17 hours it will be worth it, because we will be together again.” While Valentine’s Day may not be everyone’s favorite holiday — there is plenty of discourse circulating about the day being nothing more than a capitalist venture made to sell expensive gifts and

overpriced candy — there is still something heartening about walking around campus with those rose-colored glasses on. Those looking for a reason to eat a piece of candy with lunch or send their friend a sappy text or take their partner out for dinner will doubtlessly find the atmosphere at Duke conducive to these decisions, even if there is not a serious culture surrounding the holiday on campus. There are several options to celebrate Valentine’s Day with fanfare, but for most, it is just another Wednesday, albeit a little sweeter.

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Upcoming Nasher event ‘PARLIAMENT’ seeks to recalibrate our realities By Keyin Lu Staff Writer

If you got on a bus with only one other person on board, would you sit down next to them? Probably not, right? But when did we decide that this was the socially accepted behavior? Why would it be weird if you sat right next to them? Michael Kliën’s performance art piece “PARLIAMENT” seeks to unearth the arbitrary choreographies present in our daily life. Starting on Wednesday, March 7, and continuing through Saturday, March 10, the Nasher will be presenting “PARLIAMENT.” Stripped of their electronic devices and ability to use language, 100 participants will step into an open gallery space devoid of furniture. Here, for six to 10 hours, depending on the day, they will shed socially constructed ideas of personal space, behavior and relationships with the self and others. In this space, people will be forced to simply be. Kliën is an associate professor of the practice in Duke’s Dance Program. With this work, he wanted to challenge the normative ways people move about the world and approach life. He gave me the example of where to sit on an empty bus to illustrate how arbitrary yet deeply ingrained certain behaviors are. “I’m creating these openings,” Kliën said. “I’m trying to insert a stop sign to this everyday working and just expand these normative realities and insert a wedge of strangeness.” “PARLIAMENT” is less performance art and more a “choreographic situation for citizens,” Kliën said. For him, the value of “PARLIAMENT” lies in its transformative and nourishing qualities. “If it is a crazy artwork, it has done nothing. It is just a candy,” he said. The intensity of “PARLIAMENT”’s duration is both exciting and intimidating.

Wendy Hower, director of engagement and marketing at the Nasher, will be participating all four days. “I don’t expect to be changed, and I don’t expect to be the same,” Hower said. Given how radical “PARLIAMENT” is, people sometimes react extremely emotionally. Kliën said that some experience pure euphoria and others become depressed. Both feelings serve to move people to reevaluate their lives. In taking away all of the distractions that crowd modern American life, participants confront the purity of human existence in relation to others. “I think it is part of your civic duty to resense society and the people around you and to experience your own being with other people,” Kliën said. At its core, “PARLIAMENT” is about being intentional. Participants will be keenly aware of their own thoughts and behaviors for six hours or more. This kind of fearless and sometimes incredibly uncomfortable presence in one’s own body drives a reorientation of reality. Kliën hopes that people arrive at a new understanding and question the current systems that are in place. In Kliën, the social dance that we all partake in finds a disruptive challenger. “All of us need to be all the time bewildered and not settle into our forms so safely,” he said. At the “high-powered machine” that is Duke, Kliën, a relative newcomer to the community, is thrown off by how fast paced and streamlined things are. He finds it absurd that six hours is so much to ask from students and that, from the perspective of the Duke student, time is an incredibly precious commodity that most are not willing to trade for a day of “doing nothing.” Kliën sees “PARLIAMENT” as a way to create a desire for change. Whether that change is personal, professional or societal, people

Michael Kliën | Special to The Chronicle From March 7 to 10, participants in “PARLIAMENT” will spend six to 10 hours per day in an open gallery.

will never feel a need to change without the initial “loosening of the gravel” to which he compares his piece. While many may recognize the problematic nature of how we approach life in 2018, few really act on these realities. “PARLIAMENT” provides the activation energy for that change. The four day event is not limited by duration, however. In the hopes of changing people’s perceptions, Kliën believes that this experience will unite people to form groups of their own where further exploration can take place. He also believes that Duke students’ feverish pursuit of distractions is worth exploring further. We lack flexible time to fully

relax — and without it, creativity is impossible. Kliën has not yet decided whether or not he will be participating in the event this year, although he has in past iterations in Europe. He likens participation to mental yoga but feels taking part might change the dynamics in that gallery space. “PARLIAMENT” has changed him by making him question more and more the normative systems in place while simultaneously making him realize that other systems are possible. “It is like a snow globe, you always want someone to come and shake it again,” Kliën said of the event. “Everybody needs to shake each others’ reality all the time.”

Sophomore Lucas Tishler draws attention with popular piano covers By Christy Kuesel Recess Culture Editor

When sophomore Lucas Tishler hears music, he says he can see the notes in front of him. “I guess it’s always been the case with me,” Tishler said. “When I hear sounds, I can see them being played in my head.” Lucas Tishler, a pianist, songwriter and producer, started his own YouTube channel three years ago. His channel now has over 8,000 subscribers. Tishler can hear a song played once through and can immediately transpose it onto the piano. In choosing his songs, he will listen to the song once and usually upload a video of it within an hour. “I’ve never really heard anything like it,” sophomore Kaitlynne Janes said. Janes met Tishler her freshman year, when they were both living in Giles residence hall. She filmed many of his YouTube videos during their first year. Tishler started playing the piano at age five on a mini keyboard. He was born in Los Angeles and moved to London at a young age. He grew up playing classical music but was inspired by covers of pop songs he found online. “I heard people play modern songs on the piano, and I thought that that was so cool,” Tishler said. “I was like, ‘Alright, I need to try this.’” He quickly found out that he could recreate these covers, teaching himself and

following along to YouTube videos online. He started to cover songs for which he couldn’t find covers online and decided to start posting these covers on YouTube when he was 16 years old. Tishler’s first cover was an Ed Sheeran rendition of Trap Queen. Although he started off with pop songs, he gradually drifted into rap and hip hop. He tries to upload at least one video a week and covers a variety of music, from Bastille’s “Good Grief ” to Post Malone’s “Rockstar.” Tishler films his videos on campus, often using

the piano in the Student Wellness Center. He said he appreciates the wide variety of musical equipment Duke has to offer. “The fact that I have access to such nice pianos here is definitely a contribution to the quality of my videos,” Tishler said. “People are more likely to watch when it looks more professional.” While he has little trouble covering songs, he said he has had to teach himself the more technical elements of producing videos, like recording the audio and figuring out how to upload the video to YouTube.

Courtesy of Lucas Tishler via YouTube Tishler uploads piano covers to his YouTube page, where he has garnered over 8,000 subscribers.

Tishler tries to post covers of songs that are not popular but will be. He said his covers of less popular songs tend to get more views, as there are fewer covers of these songs already online. His most popular cover online is Lil Peep’s “Benz Truck,” which has attracted nearly 196,000 views. He also tries to post covers of popular songs right after the song is released to get more views. When The Weeknd’s album “Starboy” came out, for example, Tishler recorded piano covers of all the songs and put them up on his YouTube channel that day. “We put the entire thing up within hours of the album dropping,” said Janes. Janes describes Tishler as a fun and goofy guy. She remembers having to do new takes of his videos because he kept singing over the song. “He can play piano, but he can’t sing,” she said. Tishler dreams of working in music and songwriting when he graduates. His musical inspirations include Kanye West and The Weeknd. Tishler has also started working with Small Town Records and learning more about music production to translate his piano skills into the studio. Janes said she remembers trying to test Tishler on whether he could play any song. Without fail, Tishler could listen to a song once and reproduce it on the piano. “We couldn’t find anything he couldn’t do,” said Janes.

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With new album, Fuqua student has followed unconventional path to music By Ashley Kwon Staff Writer

Last Wednesday, Cole Heathcott, a student at the Fuqua School of Business, released a music video for one of the songs in his new album, “American Love,” which will be released Mar. 1. Recorded at the Small Town Records studio at Duke with other members of his band, Good Coffee, Heathcott’s new album has eight songs that he wrote over the past few years, many of which are based on his experiences in college and graduate school. Heathcott played in multiple bands throughout his undergraduate years at Colorado College. He particularly loved live performances, because he could directly see people’s reactions to his songs and interact with them, rather than performing to a computer and worrying too much about how his music sounded. “[In college], we had a bunch of real bands playing in house shows,” he recalled. Heathcott’s “crazy, wild, intimate and informal” performance spots ranged from a sweaty basement to a small room with 25 people, where his band played for three hours. He said he became interested in music production when several people, after hearing him play, suggested that he should record his songs. But during his senior year, he became eager to play his own type of music and created his band, “Good Coffee” — a name that one of his roommates randomly came up with. Heathcott also spent one year driving around the country and living out of his car, because he did not want to live like other people told him to.

“I have always thought that there is more to life than just following the standard path.” he said. “I am trying to figure that out.” He would hike the Appalachian Trail and drive all the way from Texas to Washington, free from any obligations. “It was cool, because it gave me flexibility to go on,” he said. “Waking up in the morning, you can do whatever you want and go wherever you want.” Many of the songs on his new album were based on those long hours of driving and the thoughts he had during his adventure. “[The album] is pretty dark, but it is also really good driving music,” he said. “It would be the perfect road trip companion for the American West.” With his heavy involvement in creative music scenes on campus and unusual lifestyle, his friends never expected that Heathcott would end up going to a business school. He wanted to experience intellectual growth through self-awareness and creative learning, but Fuqua was different from what he expected. “[Fuqua] would rather have us be good employees than be happy individuals who pursue their passion,” he said. “It is training us to help rich corporations be richer.” He felt out of place at the business school, but he eventually learned to make the best of his years at the school, especially through his music, which gave him an outlet for creative experimentation. Originally rejected by one of the music producers at Small Town Records, Heathcott contacted another music director, Sean Breitkreutz, at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, to film a music video. The video, which is based on one of the songs in his new album, “Knife,”

Special to The Chronicle Cole Heathcott, a student in the Fuqua School, will release “American Love” Mar. 1 with his band Good Coffee.

features surrealistic scenes — like a man destroying and burning framed pictures — and conveys Heathcott’s attitude toward his business school experience. “The point of the video is that you can find yourself in weird situations where you feel like you do not belong, but you can still laugh at everything at the end of the day,” he said. Although Duke was not what Heathcott expected it to be, he said there is some room for change, and he wants the Duke community to discover different types of music. “What I want the Duke community to know is that we are a fun live band,” he said. “We want to play at your house to see you at your worst and at your best. We want to be there with you.”

However, Heathcott doesn’t want his music to be all about promoting himself and gaining more recognition — unlike other bands, Good Coffee does not have any social media pages. “I feel like a lot of artists are self-indulgent, especially in the social media age,” he said. “I want people to see my music for what it is before they see me.” And, while he does not have a definite plan after graduating from the business school, Heathcott wants to continue his career as a musician in Durham. “I hope to keep playing and recording songs forever, because I like it,” he said. “I am not sure what will happen next. I will have a good degree, at least.”

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‘Black Panther’ is best when it doesn’t try to be a superhero movie By Jake Graber-Lipperman Contributing Writer

largest opening weekend ever. But coupled with the financial success of last year’s femaledriven “Wonder Woman,” I expect studios to rethink the way they treat diversity and political messages in their upcoming projects. Cultural significance aside, “Black Panther” is certainly a great time at the movies and should satisfy any audience. The film features likable characters, including the stoic T’Challa, jubilant gadgets expert Shuri, superspy Nakia and warrior badass Okoye. Coogler also invests justified time into building the world of Wakanda, exploring its tribal politics and showing off its vibranium-powered technology, to the point where the nation itself serves as a full-fleshed character. I suspect I wasn’t the only person leaving the movie wishing I could visit the country one day. Nevertheless, I still exited the theater

disappointed that “Black Panther” failed to further distance its Shakespearean grandeur from its distinctly Marvellian tropes. When “Thor: Ragnarok” was released in November, I complained that Marvel constrained Taika Waititi’s vision of a stupidly fun superhero romp by shoehorning in an all-too-serious doomsday plot. In reverse fashion, “Black Panther” shines brightest as a political drama while losing strides every time it surrenders to its generic Marvel-isms. “Black Panther” carries a lot more thematic weight and relevant social commentary than your granddaddy’s superhero movie. Historically, Wakanda has flourished under the guise of being a poor rural nation in order to protect its vibranium reserves from colonial invaders. As the film progresses, however, seeds of unrest planted under the previous king cause

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Lexie Brown scores 30 points as Duke pulls away in the third quarter for its second top-10 win of the year By Dani Schneider Staff Reporter

In their penultimate home game of the season, the Blue Devils hosted ninth-ranked Florida State and pulled off their highestranked ACC upset this season in the annual Play4Kay Contest, raising money for the Kay Yow Cancer Center. Sporting their pink and white uniforms, the No. 20 Blue Devils bounced back after a road loss at Syracuse with 66 a 79-66 win against FSU 79 the Seminoles, led DUKE by a spectacular effort by graduate student Lexie Brown with 30 points on 12-of-19 shooting. Duke started off slow defensively, with several gaps in the paint allowing for easy points scored by the Seminoles. The Blue Devils found themselves in a 6-2 hole early on in the contest, before Rebecca Greenwell nailed her first trey of the night to narrow the deficit. More than five minutes into the first quarter, Duke had no defensive rebounds, giving them all up to Florida State’s aggressive offense. Not only did the Blue Devils find themselves in rebound trouble, but also foul trouble. with senior Erin Mathias picking up two fouls early. After what seemed like a threat of yet another turnover, graduate student Lexie Brown tied the score for the first time by hitting her first 3-pointer of the night. Then, a giveaway for the Seminoles gave Brown another chance at a triple, this time giving

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Lexie Brown seized control with 14 points in the third quarter alone and finished the night with 30 to lead all scorers. the Blue Devils their first lead of the night and injecting the crowd and the team with much-needed energy. “We had a sense of urgency on defense,” Brown said. “They started hitting some tough shots. I think we had a mindset defensively to stop that run.”

Roles began reversing as the first quarter came to a close. The Blue Devils (21-7, 10-5 in the ACC) held the lead for the rest of the quarter, and the Seminoles began tallying up fouls of their own. Throughout the second quarter, the Seminoles (22-5, 10-4) kept the scoring

margin close, never letting the Blue Devils have a comfortable lead. But it was Florida State’s AJ Alix who retook the lead for the Seminoles midway through the second quarter after hitting one of her three treys See W. BASKETBALL on Page 13

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Blue Devils return home to face stingy Cardinals By Ben Leonard Blue Zone Editor

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Grayson Allen is averaging more than 22 points in the three games Marvin Bagley III has missed and has more control of Duke’s offense with the ball in his hands.

The bleeding seemed like it would never end. Just two weeks ago, Duke’s perpetually struggling defense hit close to rock bottom, getting gashed for 81 points by underpowered St John’s before falling to North Carolina. But the Blue Devils’ band-aid, an aggressive zone defense, has worked better so far than just a temporary fix, helping shut down Louisville Virginia Tech and vs. then-No. 11 Clemson on the road, even No. 5 Duke without star forward Marvin Bagley III. WEDNESDAY, 9 p.m. Those two games Cameron Indoor Stadium marked the first time Duke held two straight conference opponents to fewer than 60 points since 2015, when it raised its fifth banner. Now, the No. 5 Blue Devils look to keep up that defensive momentum against Louisville

Wednesday at 9 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium. With Bagley once again a gametime decision, Duke will face a Cardinals team that has lost four of its last six games, but boasts an offense that has put up nearly 80 points per game. “We’re still getting better. When teams watch us on tape from two weeks ago, we’re different. We’ll be different and better this week,” reigning national player of the week Grayson Allen said. “We’re going to keep adding things and should in a week be in position to be playing our best basketball.” Allen is certainly playing his best basketball of the season without Bagley on the floor—he has averaged more than 22 points in his last three games. He has been an improved deep threat and is much more aggressive at getting into the paint and to the line—he combined to get 19 free throw tries during that stretch and made all of them. “Two weeks ago, I was falling out of See M. BASKETBALL on Page 12

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Blue Devils control offensive glass No defending By Riley Pfaff Associate Sports Editor

For the tallest team in the ACC, it might seem counterintuitive that one of Duke’s biggest concerns heading into Monday night’s game was rebounding. But against Florida State, one of the top three rebounding teams in the nation, the Blue Devils flipped that worry on its head with a dominant performance on the boards. In No. 20 Duke’s 79-66 home upset of the ninth-ranked Seminoles, the key to the game was not redshirt senior Lexie Brown’s 30 points, nor classmate Rebecca Greenwell’s six 3-pointers, but rather the team’s best offensive rebounding performance this season. The Blue Devils grabbed 24 offensive boards, including 16 in the second half, while holding Florida State to just 14 in the game and six after the break. The season-high total on the offensive glass helped Duke outrebound the Seminoles 48-37. “The rebounding, the hustle plays, all the

intangibles—we didn’t shoot as well as we can, but we didn’t put our heads down,” Blue Devil head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “You’ve got to do the blue-collar things, and I thought the team did.” The result was possibly Duke’s most impressive rebounding performance of the season. Although the large margin was the result of a concerted team effort, several individual performances stood out. Greenwell contributed nine rebounds in addition to her 22 points, and senior Erin Mathias added eight more boards. However, sophomore Leaonna Odom led the charge on the glass for the Blue Devils, grabbing 12 boards, seven of them offensive, while also putting up 15 points for a double-double. “[Odom], especially, and Erin [Mathias] were getting all my missed shots down there and putting them back in,” Greenwell said. “I’m proud of the way we came out on the boards tonight.” Florida State, which entered the game with an 11.7 average rebounding margin, struggled to get second-chance opportunities, scoring just eight points off offensive rebounds. Duke,

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Leaonna Odom had one of her more aggressive games of the season with 15 points and 12 rebounds to help Duke total a season high on the offensive glass.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 11 aggressive mode. It’s at a point now where I have the ball in my hands, I’m staying in that mode,” Allen said. “Two weeks ago, I didn’t have to be in that mode all the time because of Marvin and Wendell and Gary and Tre and all these guys that are scoring the ball at will.... For me, it’s staying in that aggressive mode. We need that.” With Bagley out and Trevon Duval struggling at times, Allen has assumed more of a point-guard role, with Marques Bolden and Javin DeLaurier splitting time in the post replacing Bagley. The new defense has been lights out against guards, helping remedy the Blue Devils’ early-season woes in defending 3-pointers. Allen and Duval have been active at the top of the zone, switching over for each other to limit the effectiveness of opponents’ screens. That has allowed them to avoid getting caught in screens and made it harder for other teams to drive into the paint, Allen says. “We do a bunch of different things where we’re talking to each other and trying to be confusing and being in the right spots and make it work,” Allen said. “There are times where I

watch on film and don’t know what the heck me and Tre just did, but we made it work, and that what it’s all about.” But forwards and post players have still been effective against Duke’s new defense— and Louisville (18-9, 8-6 in the ACC) has two strong ones—leading scorer Deng Adel and 6-foot-10 forward Ray Spalding, who has averaged nearly a double-double this season. Without Bagley, Carter and the fill-in bigs struggled to stop Clemson forward Elijah Thomas, who dropped 13 points and grabbed 15 rebounds Sunday. “Obviously we miss Marvin tremendously. He’s a great player both offensively and defensively,” DeLaurier said. “But since the North Carolina loss, as a whole team we’ve focused on communicating more and sharing emotion. I’m sure Marvin will be an essential part of that when he’s healthy.” Duke (22-5, 10-4) has dipped nearly 10 points per game in conference scoring without Bagley, but has also allowed nearly 14 fewer points per game. The Blue Devils will face an elite Louisville defensive unit that has been particularly stingy inside the arc this season, allowing the ninthlowest 2-point shooting percentage in the nation. Outside of Carter, Duke hasn’t received

on the other hand, turned its second chances into 19 points, its second-highest total in that category this season. One of the most notable aspects of the Blue Devils’ success on the boards was how quickly their advantage turned coming out of the break. At the end of the first half, Florida State held the edge in rebounds and trailed by only three points. But as Duke took off on the boards in the second half, the Seminoles seemed to have no answer. Time and again, the Blue Devils were the ones hustling under the basket for a loose ball, staying active whenever a shot went up and crashing the boards as a team. At points, especially in the fourth quarter, the Seminoles simply looked defeated after yet another Duke missed shot turned into a preventable secondchance opportunity. “We just didn’t do our job on the boards. That’s not like us. We did a terrible job boxing out, and they did a great job rebounding the basketball,” Seminole head coach Sue Semrau said. “Our minds weren’t in the right place. We didn’t focus in on what we needed to, and that’s so unlike our team.” For Greenwell, the game provided an extra measure of redemption against a program that has had her number in the past, holding her to fewer than 10 points and five rebounds per game in her career. Her performance Monday in perhaps her final meeting with Florida State was her most impressive, and she has now grabbed at least eight rebounds in seven straight games. “I’m really proud of Becca and [her] rebounding,” McCallie said.“I know scoring is very impressive as well, but boy, her rebounding makes an enormous difference on our team.” Rebounding will be key for the Blue Devils again next Sunday as they wrap up their season at home against North Carolina. Duke lost in overtime on the road in Chapel Hill to the Tar Heels in January despite controlling the glass— nevertheless, replicating Monday’s hustle on the boards would go a long way toward preventing another upset.

much production on offense in the post without Bagley. DeLaurier and Bolden have combined for only 14 points in the last two games. DeLaurier doesn’t necessarily see it as his job to come in and be a scorer. “It’s just trying to come in and make plays

Bagley’s weakness Marvin Bagley III is a truly special talent— on offense. But as it has shown recently, Duke is better served without him on defense. In their last three games, the Blue Devils have been locked in on defense in a way few thought would be possible. Certainly, its offense has taken a hit, but overall, Duke has netted nearly four points per game better without him in conference play. After downing Virginia Tech and Clemson, the Blue Devils have held two straight conference opponents to fewer than 60 points for the first time since 2015. It might have something to do with the trapping 2-3 zone that head coach Mike Krzyzewski implemented against the Hokies and the Tigers. But a change in defense alone would not make that drastic of a difference. Bagley is worse than frontcourt mates Wendell Carter Jr. and Javin DeLaurier in defensive rating, and he has looked overmatched defensively for much of the year. Although he is a transcendent offensive talent, he hasn’t been able to protect the rim for much of the season. He has a putrid 3.2 percent block rate—that’s five times worse than the national leader. And though Bagley has strong post moves on offense, he hasn’t been able to translate that to the defensive end of the floor. He has struggled in particular when he plays against someone his own size—take Wake Forest’s Doral Moore, for example. The 7-foot-1 Demon Deacon center embarrassed Bagley, throwing down dunk after dunk and scoring 14 points in the first

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that affect the game that aren’t necessarily scoring plays,” DeLaurier said. “Just trying to get rebounds, defensive stops and extra possessions. Little things like that that will help us win.” Mitchell Gladstone contributed reporting.

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Javin DeLaurier has thrived with Marvin Bagley III sidelined, grabbing 10 rebounds last week against Virginia Tech and starting at Clemson.

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half. The Blue Devils went on a quick 7-0 run to turn a one-point deficit into a 48-42 lead, and the Seminoles never pulled within one possession the rest of the way. Duke picked up its defensive play and its effort on the boards as the game came to a close. After grabbing eight offensive rebounds in the first half, Duke doubled that number after the break while holding Florida State, one of the league’s best rebounding teams, to only six offensive boards throughout the second half. The Blue Devils’ 24 offensive boards broke a school record. “That was huge for us tonight,” said Greenwell. “That’s the main emphasis we come into every game, defense and rebounding, so to come out and beat one of the best rebounding teams in the country on the boards is huge.” The Blue Devils return to action on Sunday against North Carolina in Cameron for their final regular-season game, looking to avenge an overtime loss in Chapel Hill in January. Duke will honor its four graduating players at Sunday’s game.

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BAGLEY FROM PAGE 12 half. Krzyzewski says the only way Duke could guard him was fouling him, a strategy that eventually worked, but not without a cost— Bagley got into foul trouble and DeLaurier fouled out after just 12 minutes. The same was true against St. John’s, when 6-foot-11 forward Tariq Owens forced his way into the post for 17 points. Bagley is quick and nimble, but lacks the physicality necessary to be an effective post defender at this point. A combination of DeLaurier and Bolden has worked surprisingly well at matching up with the strength of conference opponents. Now, that pairing cannot replace Bagley’s offensive production, but the offense is still running at a satisfactory level with Grayson Allen emerging as the go-to option. Bagley’s absence has hurt Duke’s scoring totals, but the defense has more than made up for it. The offense isn’t fundamentally worse—it just

looks different. With Allen running the show, the captain has been able to drive and kick much more—freeing up his own shot. Allen is doing what he does best— shooting from deep. Even so, the offense has dropped roughly 10 points per game without Bagley, but the defense has been nearly 14 points better per game. It’s a tradeoff that Duke fans should welcome for now. Bagley being back would be ideal, but right now, the team is playing as well as it has all season. The Blue Devils’ offense has never been a problem. Plain and simple: their defense lost them every single game they have dropped so far, even against Virginia. Perhaps playing without Bagley will give Allen and the rest of the team a boost, so if he comes back, Duke will be more confident in its ability to defend in its new scheme. If it can win without Bagley, it can beat any team in the country. But only if his defense keeps pace with that of his teammates.

in the first half. After a layup by freshman Jade Williams, Duke took the lead back, and the Splash Sisters struck again. Back-to-back steals from Brown, with one of them leading to a 3-pointer by Greenwell, helped the Blue Devils take their biggest lead of the first half, going up by eight. Florida State fought its way back into the contest, but Duke finished the half with a tight 35-32 lead. “It’s so fun to watch the team to play together and figure things out,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. The Seminoles kept the score close in the first few minutes of the second half and regained the lead with six minutes left to play in the third quarter. But as Florida State seemed to gain momentum again, the Blue Devils were quick to shut it down. Duke scored 22 points in the third quarter, and 14 of them belonged the Brown alone after she scored 13 in the first

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t is 2018, which means that it has been fifty years since that iconic year in Americana: 1968. For millions of Americans who lived through ‘68, the events that year defined a generation and still continue to impact current events today. Looking back at the many demonstrations, assassinations and scandals that defined 1968, we can note some obvious parallels to the present experiences of so many Americans in 2018. For many Americans, the turmoil of ‘68 began with the Tet Offensive, which rocked public confidence in the government’s conduct of the Vietnam War. Walter Cronkite—the broadcast journalist known unofficially at the time as “the most trusted man in America”—in reporting on the events during Tet helped to catalyze public opinion against the Johnson administration. Fifty years later in 2018, public trust in the government remains at a historic low, with mainstream media continuing to report on governmental misconduct. As journalistic bodies continue to comment on the incessant scandals of the Trump administration, we can perhaps look back at 1968 with a glimmer of hope; Americans have survived worse instances of government mistrust after all. ‘68 as a year was also defined by a number of shocking assassinations. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April that year, while Robert F. Kennedy, the leading Democratic presidential

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candidate for the ‘68 election, was killed less than two months later. Young liberal America that year seemed to be robbed of its youthful, relatable political leaders to redirect our nation in more progressive direction. Flash forward to 2018, and the condition unfortunately has repeated itself; the Democratic Party continues to be defined by a stalwart geriatric elite.

Editorial Board With police brutality continually making national headlines today, we can perhaps relate to the events at the Democratic National Convention in ‘68. At the DNC that year, the police attacked protesters, largely made up of radical left-wing students, who were protesting against the decision by party elites to endorse a moderate candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Considering the deep divisions within the Democratic Party of the present, which continues to deal with liberal elitism post-2016, the political parallels between 1968 and 2018 are eerily similar. Just like in 2016, when political divisions between more radical Sanders supporters and moderate Clintonites resulted in a miserable electoral defeat,

1968 likewise ended with Humphrey’s defeat to a figure so hated among liberal America at the time: Trump Tricky Dick. Lastly, here on campus in ‘68, the Silent Vigil at Duke represented the first instance of mass student activism at a hitherto sleepy parochial institution. During the Vigil in April, hundreds of students camped out on Abele Quad and pushed the administration to meet certain student demands. In 2018, especially in an age of great institutional diversity, there remains a similar sentiment for the administration to be better responsible for marginalized groups on campus. The student activism that helped to define Duke’s campus culture in the late ‘60s, however, remains largely missing in 2018. Comparing the atmosphere of ‘68 verses ‘18— both years being characterized by a deep distrust in government, crises within American liberalism and deep political divisions—numerous parallels can be noted. Though we in the present tend to view the events of fifty years ago as far removed from our current lives, history continues to define who we are as a nation in the late 2010s. Commentators in 2068, no doubt, will retrospectively look back at 2018 with a similar historical eye, rummaging through our Twitter and Facebook feeds, to piece together the mood of our nation in ‘18.

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or a few months now, I’ve been repeatedly telling my friends about how excited I was to finally turn 21 and be able to order a goddamn beer with my burger at Burger Bach. And this last Tuesday, the day finally came.

Daniela Flamini WORMS IN SPACE Did it feel as good as I expected to ask the dude for a Corona and know that I’d get one? Honestly, and not to sound tacky, it absolutely did. There’s nothing like handing over a perfectly legal driver’s license— not that I’ve ever partaken in illegal activities related to alcohol, of course—and taking that first sip of legal alcohol. And first sip of alcohol, period, as far as the authorities are concerned. But, when the waiter carefully scrutinized my license despite my having told him it was my 21st birthday, and when he kept joking about how all my friends had “barely made the cut” after checking their IDs and seeing that they’d all recently turned 21, I was reminded of how absolutely weird the drinking culture is in the U.S. For some reason, I’d been counting down the seconds to do publicly the same thing we’ve all been doing in secret since we were in high school. And when I could finally accompany my burger with a beer whenever I wanted, suddenly all I wanted was a Coke or some cold water. Why? Alcohol is the most commonly used and abused drug among youth in the United States, and it’s estimated that people ages 12 to 20 drink about 11 percent of all the alcohol consumed in the country. 90 percent of this alcohol is consumed in the form of binge drinks. Binge drinking is defined by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention as “when men consume 5 or more drinks or women consume 4 or more drinks in about 2 hours,” which, to me, sounds like a Duke firstyear’s average Shooters pregame. According to a survey conducted last year, Duke undergraduates consume alcohol at an almost 10 percent higher rate than the national average. Even more worrisome, a Chronicle article from last year cites an EMT student admitting that “there is a noticeable binge drinking trend during the first few weeks for freshmen on campus, likely a result of the newfound freedom that college provides as well as the desire for social fluidity.” So maybe, the amount of freedom is the problem. We’re given none of it for the portion of our lives during which we’re awkwardly begging for social validation, forced to resort to chugging warm Aristocrat vodka before entering a venue underage, with the hope that it’ll last us the night. And then, once we’ve sort of figured our shit out and developed horrendous

drinking patterns, we’re suddenly allowed to do it like normal people, in public at restaurants and real bars that aren’t Shooters or Devine’s. Suddenly, we’re allowed to take our time and enjoy alcohol, after our society has taught us how to do the exact opposite. Because, if you haven’t tried Aristocrat, trust me when I say that it’s so bad all the Poles who first distilled vodka in the 8th-century roll over in their graves every time a bottle is opened. Although I used to think this was a uniquely American problem, there are a few other countries with equally troublesome drinking cultures. Although 72 percent of countries have friendlier drinking age limits between 16 and 19 years old, including all of Europe, Canada, most of Latin America, a decent portion of Africa, Russia and Australia, binge drinking is still a severe problem in many of these places. According to a survey that explored drinking standards around the world, no one can really agree on how much alcohol is too much. Drunk driving plagues South Africa as well as Spain, and binge drinking is glorified in New Zealand and Australia. While in Japan, France, and Italy, alcohol is primarily enjoyed in order to enhance one’s eating experience, excessive underage drinking is a serious problem in the Philippines and even in the UK. So, I guess all over the world, young people are connected by how much they love to disobey the law in the unhealthiest, most unpleasant way possible: by drinking ourselves to death. It’s always been fascinating to me how much alcohol defines our social spaces from a very young age, whether we choose to partake or not. In high school, I remember feeling like I was worlds away from peers who were finding ways to sneak into bars and clubs when we were barely sophomores. And at Duke, there’s absolutely nothing more telling than those damn little Sharpie ‘X’s on the back of our hands when we can’t get into the over-21 line. And I remember every morning when I’d wake up with a messy black mark on my pillow or cheek, it would feel like the universe was reminding me that yes, you are not allowed to do the majority of what you did last night, even though it tasted awful, and no, you may not ever join those beautiful juniors and seniors by the bar, having seemingly more pleasant nights. Well you know what, universe? I am one of those juniors now, and even though my night is definitively not more pleasant, it is certainly more legal. So get ready, bartenders and waiters of Durham. I’m finally allowed to switch my drinking habits from secretive and disgusting to public and tasteful, and I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing. This is the dilemma we’ve all helped create. Daniela Flamini is a Trinity junior. Her column usually runs on alternate Mondays.

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t took me until the most recent mass shooting (as of this writing) in Parkland, Florida to realize what I had been missing regarding the response to these gruesome, but increasingly commonplace, events. It required me to break out of my echo

Shivam Dave COLUMNIST chamber of liberal voices which called for “gun control,” a phrase which conservatives seemingly interpret as former President Barack Obama coming door to door to confiscate their guns. I had to really listen to the responses from the right, from those who argue that now is not the time to discuss political solutions to these repeated tragedies, and from those who’d never venture to take away a gun from someone but wouldn’t bat an eye when snatching away healthcare from millions. And what I finally realized is that Republicans are simply at a place the rest of us haven’t reached yet. Acceptance. I had not accepted that gun violence is an unavoidable reality of America. See, I thought that the near-monthly mass murders in schools and theaters and churches were unacceptable and something that had to be stopped. I listened to and supported those who spent years wrestling with ideas and policies which could hope to address this epidemic. But the Republicans weren’t wrestling. They had long since tapped out.

Sure, we’re all getting to a point where we’re not shocked when we hear about another mass shooting. But I think it’s fair to say that most of us are still upset, frustrated, angry and willing to do damn near anything to prevent the next one. But I don’t see that bevy of emotions on the face of Republicans who respond to these crises. They remain on script, hail the second amendment, condemn the “politicization” of a decadeslong national issue, and calmly express their thoughts and prayers. Indeed, you have to be in a certain unique mental state to accept the repeated cold-blooded slaughter of Americans en masse. Only the most emotionally blunted sociopaths, like Donald Trump, or the most brainwashed Republican partisans, like Paul Ryan, can demonstrate that callous nonchalance in response to videos of children cowering in a classroom as the macabre soundtrack of rapid gunshots and chilling screams plays. I imagine that’s where the thoughts and prayers come in. Many have mocked these responses as ineffective and meaningless, but that’s because we misidentify their purpose. Those who send their “thoughts and prayers” and observe ritualistic moments of silence do not do so for the victims or for their families. They do so for themselves. They spend those silent moments repeating “nothing we can do, nothing we can do, nothing we can do” in their heads until they’ve cemented it as fact. Their “thoughts” following shootings revolve around the sanctity of guns and not the sanctity of lives. They pray, in vain, that some ruthless divine force out there gives as little of a damn

about dead children as they do. The reasons that Republicans offer for the prevalence of gun violence betray their commitment to do absolutely nothing about this issue going forward. They emphasize the “evil” nature of the shooting and the shooter, knowing full well that we can’t legislate against evil. They claim that no sort of gun laws would prevent a criminal from procuring a gun. For a party purportedly dedicated to law and order, this argument that laws are ineffective because criminals will break them anyway is stunningly hypocritical. Finally, they make vague, stigmatizing, and unproductive statements about the supposed role of mental illness in these incidents. And yet their approaches to health care and national spending would reduce the ability of the mentally ill to receive care. If Republicans really believe that mental illness is to blame for gun violence, then their policies can only be seen as support for continued gun violence. The most absurd argument made by the Republican party is effectively an advertisement for the NRA. Republicans propose countering gun violence in schools by arming teachers. Are they blind to the fact that their solution to school massacres is a classroom shootout between a gunman with a plan and a teacher caught off guard? We live in a country where it is somehow accepted that professionally trained police officers lose their cool and fire upon citizens in inappropriate situations. We hear of trained soldiers who, in the heat of combat, fire upon their own comrades unintentionally. But a teacher is supposed to transition from

balancing chemical equations to ballistic countermeasures in a room full of children? That’s the brilliant solution offered by the Republican party? Much fuss has been made about the role of the NRA in buying politicians and forcing them to submit to their will. But I wouldn’t even give the Republicans the shred of humanity associated with selling out for money. It has become increasingly clear that Republicans literally do not care about most Americans. It’s why they give themselves tax cuts while cutting funding for Medicaid and Social Security. It’s why they don’t allow guns in the halls of Congress but argue that gun-free zones are the problem in school shootings. And it’s why they don’t show any sense of urgency or motivation to counteract the scourge that has, again and again and again and again, mowed down Americans no matter where they are. The issue of gun violence has stopped representing a policy matter. This is a moral issue and the Republican party’s inaction is morally reprehensible. This is a party that would support banning an entire religion from the U.S. before considering bans on weapons of war. They are complicit. Their hands and NRA-signed checks are bloodstained. Their thoughts and prayers are bulls*** and their acceptance of gun violence is sadistic. They won’t take action. But you can. Take every chance you can get to vote these uncaring and immoral excuses for humans out of office. Shivam Dave is a Trinity senior. His column usually runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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hat if I told you that a professor at Duke started to ridicule and make generalizations about leaders that are important to modern liberalism, alienating students in the process? Would Duke as an institution put up with it? Would there be outrage? In fact, the prospect of simply hosting someone with conservative beliefs often causes students to insulate themselves and claim that these ideas are forms of violence. Unfortunately, the opposite situation occurred recently. Given that essentially nothing has been done, Duke once again proves itself to be a breeding ground of double standards. Last week, controversial Duke history professor Nancy MacLean spoke at New York City’s Unitarian Church of All Souls to talk about her book “Democracy in Chains.” During the Q&A session, an audience member unfairly categorized Public Choice Theory economist and libertarian leader James Buchanan as greedy and malevolent in a question about his motivations. Professor MacLean responded by saying, “As an author, I have struggled with this, and I could explain it in different ways. I didn’t put this in the book, but I will say it here. It’s striking to me how many of the architects of this cause seem to be on the autism spectrum— you know, people who don’t feel solidarity or empathy with others, and who have difficult human relationships sometimes.” Microaggression! Although she did follow up by saying that she was speculating, this does not validate her thought process and the content of her statements. For good reason, Professor MacLean’s statements prompted Duke senior Hunter Michielson to launch a small social media campaign as well as a petition to expose and condemn Professor Maclean’s bigoted comments. Mr. Michielson is studying German and Philosophy, and is the acting

President of Duke’s Young Americans for Liberty chapter. The organization, which I have worked with from time to time, is founded on mobilizing passionate young people promoting individual liberty such as freedom of speech, free market capitalism, and other issues that tend to attract conservatives and libertarians on a nonpartisan basis. “I was disgusted and infuriated,” said Michielson after I asked him about his initial reaction to the video. “If a conservative professor had done something similar, there

Furthermore, it is offensive to assume, marginalize, and perpetuate a false narrative for those with libertarian values or autism. Her “intellectually lazy” comments, as Mr. Michielson put it, are unfortunately also ignorant, degrading, and insensitive, especially to the students and institution she represents. Many of us whose loved ones or friends live with some form of autism know very well that having autism does not mean being libertarian or lacking empathy for others. Given her leftleaning ideology, it is ironic that she chose to generalize a group of people without

We are not asking others to pity us, but rather suggesting that it is a shame that our world has come to this point of double standards. Mitchell Seigel truth be told would be outrage… I don’t want her to be punished because she has the right to free speech. However, her broad and generalized statements linking people with autism to a lack of empathy have serious implications.” Empirically, there is no evidence to fully support Professor MacLean’s claim, although libertarians have statistically been shown in studies to have social dispositions of lower empathy, “a dispositional lack of emotionality, and a preference for weaker, less-binding social relationships.” Nonetheless, it is extremely bold to diagnose that architects of libertarianism and conservatism are on the autism spectrum without proper professional qualification. I remind you that she was responding to a question about greed and malevolence, and yet somehow managed to conflate political ideology with autism. If she does believe that these values are ingrained in the libertarianism and conservatism, then why attack the people and rather than their ideas?

environment we want.” Professor MacLean’s statements are also reflective of the stigma against students who hold unpopular opinions relative to Duke’s campus. It would not be surprising if, should these students heard what she had to say about fellow libertarians, they would not want to speak up in class, feeling silenced and threatened. This negatively affects the educational experience of not only themselves, but their peers who could benefit off of conversations and intellectual discussions with them. Situations like this suggest a pernicious narrative that one answer exists, and dismissing the concerns of millions of other people is okay. Conservative and libertarian students like Mr. Michielson and I continuously experience intolerance on campus by receiving hate mail and undergoing stressful encounters. We are not asking others to pity us, but rather suggesting that it is a shame that our world has come to this point of double standards. Professor MacLean’s statements are inconsistent with Duke University’s core values and reputation. Duke’s lack of response to this issue is disappointing and the lack of accountability is discomforting. If the administration truly stands by all of their students, alumni, and professors, especially conservatives, libertarians, and those with autism, then they would condemn Professor MacLean’s statements and respond to Mr. Michielson’s petition. Unfortunately, a petition will not resolve the underlying disrespect that was expressed toward those with neurological conditions in this situation. Professor MacLean provided no response when asked about this column. I would be happy to engage with her in a discussion.

considering its effects on them. Libertarianism and conservatism, like their ideological counterparts, are flawed and imperfect. However, the promotion of free markets and individual liberty is based on the idea that these principles provide a net positive to a society. Additionally, many libertarians and conservatives believe that government intervention is detrimental to the well-being of others. Even if you don’t agree with these ideologies, it is unfair to label them as inherently lacking compassion given the principles and motivations behind them. “College should be a place for people to feel free to discuss challenging ideas and take on those they disagree with,” said Michielson. “I am privileged to be surrounded by brilliant liberal students and faculty, who have forced me to question and evolve my Mitchell Siegel is a Trinity sophomore. His beliefs. However, baselessly calling people with whom you disagree with autistic is column, “truth be told,” runs on alternate a disservice and is not fostering type of Wednesdays.

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OPENING Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection Thursday, February 22 6 pm-9pm Nasher Museum of Art

Celebrate the opening of Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/ Giuffrida Collection, a major traveling exhibition featuring bold and colorful abstract work by several generations of visionary artists of African descent. A Mark Bradford sculpture soars 25 feet high in the Great Hall. Storytelling in the gallery, 6 pm. Haiku poetry in the gallery, 7 p.m. Nasher Museum Café open until 9 p.m. Students always enjoy free admission at the Nasher.

YARDERS: THE UNDERGROUND WORLD OF BACKYARD WRESTLING: PHOTOGRAPHS BY RACHEL JESSEN, MFA|EDA ‘18 On View: Feb 1- Mar 9 Exhibition Panel: Feb 23 Keohane-Kenan Gallery

RED SUMMER EXHIBIT OPENING AND ARTIST’S TALK WITH WENDEL WHITE Wednesday, February 21 6 pm reception; 7 pm talk Center for Documentary Studies Free

AMI SHOWCASE—SCI-FI MEETS FILM NOIR—ALPHAVILLE Thursday, February 22 7 pm Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theater Free and open to the public

FRESH DOCS SCREENING: CUMBERLAND FOLKLIFE: IN THAT VALLEY OF GOLD Friday, February 23 7pm American Tobacco Campus: Full Frame Theater Free with ticket

DUKE WIND SYMPHONY WITH ALUMNUS DESHAUN GORDON KING ’14, FLUTE SOLOIST Saturday, February 24, 8 pm Baldwin Auditorium Works include Frank Ticheli’s Wild Nights and To Pernambuco with Love, a world premiere by Duke graduate composer Yahn Wagner.

ALSARAH & THE NUBATONES Thursday, March 1, 2018 8 pm Motorco Music Hall $20 / $10 Duke Students

DANCE: CALL TO PARTICIPATE IN PARLIAMENT Wednesday, March 7-Saturday, March 10 10 am-5pm Nasher Museum

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