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The third installment in the Dear Old Duke series focuses on two of Duke’s biologists and their stories, from having a case go before the U.S. Supreme Court to cataloging 17,000 seaweed specimens. The first installment covered the Meyers, an archaeologist couple, and the second was on four of Duke’s deans. The interviews are edited for length and clarity.

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stateside after being arrested for protesting at a segregated restaurant in Chapel Hill, which eventually turned into a Supreme Court case over a defendant’s right to to a speedy trial. His case was unanimously decided in March 1967. Peter Klopfer: “I came to Duke in 1958 from Cambridge, England and I wasn’t expecting but to spend two or three years here, and then I was going back to Cambridge, England.” The Chronicle: What kept you here? PK: “Initially, being arrested in connection with the civil rights movement and being involved in lengthy court proceedings that ended up at the U.S. Supreme Court. But until it ended, of course I couldn’t leave. During that

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Peter Klopfer Peter Klopfer, professor emeritus of biology, came to Duke in the late 1950s, and he didn’t plan to stay very long. Sixty years later, he continues to lead zoological research on lemurs. Klopfer was initially tied down

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Price announces Hokies’ rally ends Duke’s win streak campus sexual harassment ‘selfassessment’ MEN’S BASKETBALL

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BLACKSBURG, Va.—The identity of this Blue Devil team remained a mystery Monday night, with a past strength turning into its biggest weakness down the stretch at Virginia Tech. No. 5 Duke entered the season as an offensive juggernaut, but it went silent in the final minutes, falling 64-63 after Chris Clarke converted a putback with less than five seconds

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Chris Clarke converted a putback with less than five seconds left to give Virginia Tech its only second-half lead.

left at Cassell Coliseum to snap the Blue Devils’ five-game winning streak. Clarke scored Virginia Tech’s last six points in the victory, taking advantage of three Duke turnovers in the final two minutes. The Blue Devils led 60-51 with 5:50 left in the game, but the Hokies stormed back, cutting the lead to one with 49 seconds left with a Clarke layup. After Duke got away with an ugly turnover when Clarke missed a contested fast-break layup, point guard Trevon Duval once again struggled to convert in the clutch from the line. With a chance to extend the Blue Devils’ lead to three, Duval missed the front end of a one-and-one to give the Hokies their last chance. “We had our opportunities,” Duke head coach Mike Kryzyewski said. “A couple of the losses that we’ve had, we’ve missed one-and-ones. I’m not blaming Trevon, but you’ve got to hit them. Those are winning plays, so it’s a tough loss for us. We’re a tired basketball team. We’ve got to get rejuvenated and move forward because we’ve been playing really good ball.” The Blue Devils’ shooting woes from the perimeter continued Monday coming off a dismal 2-for-18 outing against the Orange. Duke (24-6, 12-5 in the ACC) converted just 28.6 percent of its three-point attempts Monday and 40.7 percent of its overall shot attempts. Most notably, the team’s best 3-point shooters, Gary Trent Jr. and Grayson Allen, were unable to take the lid off the basket. The two combined to shoot a dismal 5-of-22 from the perimeter, forcing the Blue Devils to look elsewhere for offensive production. With Marvin Bagley III and Wendell Carter Jr. struggling, Allen took it upon himself, scoring nine

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In an email to the Duke community Tuesday, President Vincent Price announced a campus “selfassessment” of sexual harassment. Price acknowledged that there has been a “profound moment of reckoning about sexual harassment in the academic world,” and that Duke is among those universities that have witnessed situations where faculty and students faced hostile environments. Price indicated he wanted to be proactive and prevent harassment before it occurs. In a report that The Chronicle published last week, two students who detailed their experience with sexual harassment at Duke noted that anti-harassment training for staff—currently an online module administered by Duke Human Resources—was not “effective or meaningful.” In his email, Price announced that he has asked the leaders of all academic units to self-assess the current sexual harassment climate. He wrote that Provost Sally Kornbluth, Chancellor for Health Affairs A. Eugene

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Duke mandates Guttentag explains decision to not deny random room students peacefully protesting gun violence assignments for Class of 2022 By Bill McCarthy Staff Reporter

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Members of Duke’s incoming class will have a different first-year experience than did their upperclassman peers. In a letter to members of the new class, Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, and Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, wrote that the newest Blue Devils will not have the opportunity to request roommates. They wrote that there has been a rise in people pre-selecting roommates in recent years, which has led to roommates with “very similar backgrounds.” “Our experience over many years assures us (and thus, you) that you’ll be fine...better, in fact!” Moneta and Nowicki wrote. “We believe you’ll enjoy the opportunity to meet someone you’ve not previously known and will have a great opportunity to explore your roommate’s history, culture and interests.” Moneta and Nowicki noted that research shows that diverse interactions among students help better prepare them for life after Duke. Student medical conditions and lifestyle preferences, including sleep hours and study location, will be taken into account in housing assignments, according to the letter.

High school students seeking admission to Duke don’t need to worry about activism affecting their chances, according to a statement issued by the University’s Office of Admissions Monday. “Duke has always valued active and responsible engagement in civic life among its students and applicants,” the statement said. “We will always consider all applicants fully and individually, and every part of the application, including disciplinary sanctions, in the unique context of the applicants themselves and the values of the institution we represent, which include civic and personal responsibility.” The statement noted that an “applicant’s participation in peaceful protests” is not justification for Duke to “deny or rescind an offer of admission.” With this announcement, the University joins a growing list of colleges and universities that have already granted similar assurances to their applicants. After the Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Florida—which left 17 dead and 14 injured—students across the country have lobbied Washington and state governments for tighter gun control by participating in protests, marches and class walkouts. However, threats of disciplinary action have left some would-be student activists wondering whether to take part. In one Texas school district, for example, the superintendent reportedly threatened to issue three-day suspensions to any student

who participates in a class walkout. Other school officials across the country have made similar statements. By now, more than 170 colleges and universities have released statements explaining that disciplinary action related to peaceful protesting is not likely to affect an applicant’s candidacy. Some schools, like Yale University, went so far as to encourage students to take part in organized walkouts and other forms of peaceful protest. “Yale will NOT be rescinding anyone’s admission decision for participating in peaceful walkouts for this or other causes, regardless of any high school’s disciplinary policy,” wrote Hannah Mendlowitz, senior assistant director of admissions and director of recruitment, in a blog post. “I,

for one, will be cheering these students on from New Haven.” Christoph Guttentag, Duke’s dean of undergraduate admissions, explained that the Office of Admissions has always considered every part of each application in the context of the individual applicant, and that Monday’s statement represents an extension of existing policy to the particular context of gun control. He said high school students had been reaching out to ask about the impact of peaceful protesting on their applications. “We wanted to reassure students that if they were sanctioned for peaceful protests we wouldn’t just say, ‘Oh they were See GUTTENTAG on Page 12

Chronicle File Photo The Duke Admissions Office announced Monday that an “applicant’s participation in peaceful protests” is not justification for Duke to deny or rescind their admission.

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Toenail fungus adapts to human hosts instead of having sex, study finds

Latin cuisine coming to campus

By Claire Ballentine

By Lexi Kadis

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What’s the least sexy thing in the world? If you think it’s toenail fungus, you’re right on multiple levels. A study by Duke scientists recently discovered that the fungus responsible for conditions like athlete’s foot and toenail infections may have lost its ability to reproduce sexually because it has adapted over time to infect human hosts. The findings were published in the online journal Genetics, on Feb. 21. The researchers found that the organism Trichophyton rubrum belonged almost exclusively to a single mating type and would not mate with a different type—even when the scientists tried creating a sexy environment by lowering the lights, covering Petri dishes in plastic or flipping them upside down. “Part of the effort was to sequence the genome,” said senior study author Joseph Heitman, James B. Duke professor and chair of molecular genetics and microbiology at the School of Medicine. “In this case, we wanted to take one species and really drill down on the broader population. To me, the most surprising finding is just how clonal they are.” The study focused on the genetic makeup and sexual tendencies of the fungus by looking at 135 different Trichophyton rubrum samples from around the world. Researchers determined which mating type the fungus had and were surprised to discover that all but one of the samples had the same mating type. Even after placing the Petri dishes in different conditions for five months, there was no evidence of coiled appendages that might contain spores, suggesting that the fungi were not sexually reproducing. The researchers then sequenced the fungi genome and found that the populations were near perfect clones of each other with little variation. In fact, any two genomes were 99.97 percent identical. Other fungi such as Cryptococcus are only 99.36 percent identical, which means they are 21 times more

diverse than the toenail fungus. “This suggests that this species has adapted to human skin and does not need, or can’t mate with, another mating type to create diversity,” said Ted White, dean of the school of biological sciences at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and an author of the study. Not being able to sexually reproduce is a problem, right? However, though these results mean that the species cannot diversify and may eventually become extinct, this probably will not happen for millions of years. Knowing that this species may be asexual highlights potential vulnerabilities that could be targeted by new antifungal medications. This is especially important given that about 25 percent of the world’s population is afflicted by fungal infections, most of

Duke Dining announced the addition of a new Latin cuisine restaurant to the Brodhead Center last week in a post on the Fix My Campus Facebook page. Robert Coffey, director of dining services, wrote in an email that the Latin cuisine restaurant—which will be the 14th dining venue in the Brodhead Center—will be open by the start of the next academic year. He explained that Duke Dining and the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee have been working with students to receive feedback on the new vendor, and added that students should “stay tuned for details on [the] location and menu” in the coming months. “Duke Dining along with DUSDAC reached out to students including Mi Gente to provide feedback on menu items they would like to see in a Latin venue,” Coffey wrote. “Duke Dining is working with a design group and culinary team to develop a world class venue that will create authentic Latin cuisine.” Mi Gente, Duke’s official Latinx student association, has advocated for the inclusion of a Latin restaurant in Brodhead Center since its opening. Sophomore Jen Ricano, a member of Mi Gente, expressed her dissatisfaction with the lack of Latin American cuisine on campus at a DUSDAC meeting last November. The only current Latin offerings are plaintains from Farmstead and Mexican burriitos and bowls for lunch from the Chef’s Kitchen. “It feels like our culture is being reduced down to anything that can be stuffed into a tortilla…Beyond the plantains, I haven’t really found anything on campus that I can eat and be like, ‘This tastes like home,’” Ricano said during the November meeting. Senior Norma De Jesus, co-president of Mi Gente, wrote in an email that Mi Gente was happy to hear Duke Dining’s

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Special to the Chronicle Reserachers found that one fungus species has adapted to human skin and sometimes can’t mate with another mating type to create diversity.

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DUKE FROM PAGE 1 period of time too, my wife and I were involved in the founding of the Carolina Friends School. By the time my legal problems had been cleared by the Supreme Court, the school was underway and we were heavily involved in it—my wife, in fact, was acting as head. So we didn’t want to leave. Then my research program got to the point where I couldn’t move it anymore… There’s no way I could move these animals, so by the end of the 1960s I was pretty well stuck. TC: What’s changed in your life since then? PK: “Not much has changed. I’ve been doing pretty much what I’ve been doing since I started graduate school… For the last 10 years, my primary focus has been the study of the neurophysiology and ecology of hibernation in a small lemur, the only primate known to hibernate. I’m just looking at what hibernation in primates looks like—what controls it, is it different from hibernation in other animals or is there something special about primate hibernation, how do you induce it and can you induce it in humans? “I don’t run as fast or as much. I used to coach women’s track before women’s track became a varsity sport. We used to be allowed to compete with the ACC, and we did so well one year that we messed up their scoring. So they wouldn’t let us compete in the ACC circuit anymore.”

Left: March 6, 1973, by Gary Reimer | Right: Feb. 8, 2018, by Bre Bradham

Left: undated, by Katey Ahmann | Right: Feb. 13, 2018, by Bre Bradham

Richard Searles Richard Searles, professor emeritus of botany, came to Duke in 1965. He created a course for undergraduates on oceanography with Orrin Pilkey, James B. Duke professor emeritus of geology, and taught it for 40 years. He spent three years of his retirement making a database of Duke’s 17,000-specimen seaweed collection, and now he’s the curator for the University’s algae herbarium. Richard Searles: “When my hair was like that… I was doing research, I had a sabbatical—so 1972 probably. I was doing research, my graduate students and I, in southern Chile and Argentina, collecting seaweeds along the coast, scuba diving... “I was teaching in the summers, most days, at the marine lab. I would take students out on short research cruises looking at phytoplankton in the water. North Carolina was not terribly interesting as a place to study seaweeds… There’s no real place for seaweeds to grow. They grow attached to the firm stuff, and we have miles and miles of unfirm coastline. But talking to the crew that was recruited from local fishermen, they told me about places offshore where there was a hard bottom. So I started going out there, looking to see what was there and eventually doing a lot of diving in the

meadows of seaweed offshore. So it turned out to be the place where I did most of my research and where my students did most of their research, but I continued to be interested in seaweeds from other places… I eventually started doing work on Yucatan, and that’s what I was doing right before I retired. “Retirement was sort of a stepwise thing, in some senses. I went to the dean in 2000—or probably 1999—and I said that at the end of the year I’m going to retire. So I did, but I said I still want to teach… “I continued to do research and publishing up through 2007. Since then, the main scientific thing I’ve done—I’m theoretically the curator of the algae herbarium. We have a herbarium where we have lots of, mainly pressed, specimens of plants. There is a section of that that has a seaweed collection. Things were just getting heated up about databasing those collections, so I said I would database the seaweed collection. I worked for three years—not full-time, just when I felt like doing it— and there were 17,000 specimens, so I went through and put all the information like the species name, where it was from, who it was collected by and the collection conditions.”

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solidary & solitary Nasher exhibit highlights black abstract artists, page 6

beebe comes back Experimental filmmaker shows multi-projector films, page 7

cosmic rays Former Duke professor hosts film festival, page 7

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on the cover: Sam Gilliam, “Stand.” Now on display in the Nasher’s “Solidary & Solitary.”

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Last Wednesday, our men’s basketball team blew out Louisville 82-56, but that wasn’t the only reason the game was important to me. It was also the first game I was able to go to with my stepdad. After wanting to see a Duke basketball game for years, he finally flew to Durham from our hometown in California to go to one ... and it couldn’t have been better deserved. Aside from my mom, my stepdad is the person most responsible for my being here at Duke. Since he became a part of my family when I was four years old, he’s endlessly promoted me and my academics. He always told me that, as long as I kept working hard to achieve my goals, he’d keep working hard to make them possible. Adopting someone else’s child as your own must be intimidating enough, and that’s without them later wanting to go to an expensive private university. In middle and high school I rested assured, though, that my dad would do everything in his power to ensure I had access to whatever educational opportunities I could achieve. He never treated me differently from my sister — his biological daughter — and has been in my corner for as long as I can remember. As I’ve grown older, I’ve come to appreciate this more and more; I’m so lucky that, although he doesn’t have to support me — many stepfathers do much, much less — he wants to support me anyway. This makes it all the more meaningful to me that he believes in me; he genuinely wants me to succeed. With my stepdad visiting and a stressful midterm season starting all at once, I’ve reflected a lot during the past

week about this kind of un-obligatory, unconditional support — and how much my friends help me survive my life at Duke. My roommate and my best friend are two of the main reasons I stay sane here. Although my current roommate and I were close friends before last semester, studying abroad together in Berlin for four months cemented our friendship like nothing else could. Since then, she’s been a daily source of encouragement. I’ll never forget how, after I was hospitalized in Europe with a severe case of mono, she said she’d rather push me around everywhere in a wheelchair than let me

staff note go home to America. Luckily, my mono got better and it never came to that, but I know she would have done as much as she could if I needed her help. She still does everything she can to support me in spite of her busy schedule: She never hesitates to read my writing every night when I compulsively ask her to check for grammar mistakes, and she’s always there to hear my stress-induced rants at the end of the day. Last week, amid an insanely busy week of internship searching, she listened to my emotional dramas with time she didn’t have enough of in the first

place. As the semester goes on and stress keeps piling up, she’s the person I can always count on to make my day a little bit better. Aside from my roommate, my best friend is perhaps the person I respect the most at Duke. In spite of working multiple jobs on top of her schoolwork, she’s a constant advocate for her friends. She’s seen me at my best, but also at my worst; she dragged me crying out of Perkins last year while I was going through a particularly rough relationship, and last weekend she spent hours helping me edit an application for an award I was nominated for. She’s the first person I tell when I have exciting news, and the person I go to when I need help. Even with her own extremely busy and stressful schedule, she always makes me feel like I’m a priority in her life — something few people (especially busy, collegeaged people) are able to do, and I’m so thankful to her for it. Like all Duke students this time of year, I’m stressed. But that’s okay, because I’m lucky to have people who are there for me in the good times and in the bad. I’ve realized this week exactly why I’m lucky to have them: They don’t have to be there, but they are anyway. In a busy world with obligations and deadlines around every corner, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by academic and career goals. The people who make the time to support those they care about, then, are that much more valuable. I hope I’m as good a friend to them as they are to me, and I appreciate so much the time and energy they’ve shared with me. —Jessica Williams

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Nasher celebrates black abstract artists in ‘Solidary & Solitary’ By Keyin Lu Staff Writer

Two weeks ago, presidential portraits of the Obamas were unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery. The vibrant and exuberant greens of foliage were juxtaposed with the muted pink stripes of Michelle Obama’s dress. This day marked a moment not only of artistic significance but of historical and cultural import. For the first time, an African-American presidential couple’s paintings created by two African-American artists will hang in the Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Here in Durham, the “Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection” exhibition opened at the Nasher last Thursday, featuring works by four generations of artists of African descent. This traveling show first opened at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and has made its way here to Duke. Greeting visitors to the gallery is one of the most central pieces in the exhibit. Titled “Afternoon,” it is a dazzling, pulsing field of sunshine yellow. A sea of vertical pastel pink, blue, golden and deep red brush strokes crowd the foreground. The overall composition has an incredible energy and vibrancy. Norman Lewis made the painting in 1969 at the height of the civil rights movement. At a time when being black meant being keenly aware of his race and place within society, Lewis traversed both the Abstract Expressionist sphere and that of black activists. Reflected in the title of the exhibit, Lewis felt simultaneously alone and in community with his fellow artists. The only African-American artist in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, Lewis paved the way for younger artists who followed and are

also included in the show. Imagine Creamsicle colors swirled like marble on a giant six-foot canvas. Speckled in the paint are luminescent metallic shades. Sam Gilliam made “After Glow” in 1972 as a color field painting. This stunning display of texture and color is a testament to the magic of art. Following Lewis and Gilliam, other artists include Melvin Edwards, Kevin Beasley, Charles Gaines and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Their works span a diverse range of media and themes. Edwards’ sculptural pieces combines historical objects like chains, shovels and hooks to resemble African ceremonial masks. Beasley reworks fabric and Gaines extracts meaning from numbers and algorithms. Finally, the London-based artist Yiadom-Boakye paints imaginary black figures, presenting them as “natural and normal.” Pamela Joyner, who, along with her husband, is the collector of the works in the exhibit, hopes to celebrate and highlight the works of black artists who have often been forgotten. In a 2017 interview with SFGate, Joyner said she wants “to try to be a catalyst to reframe art history around artists of African descent.” This exhibit is drawn from her extensive collection of over 300 works. When it came to installing the show at the Nasher, Marshall Price, the Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher, said that the entire process took longer than normal. Some of the pieces were so large that they fit through the doors only by an inch or two. While typical exhibits can fit in one tractor-trailer, this one took four. Planning this show took longer than usual because of the monumental size of many pieces. For a few days, many of the crates lived in the Great Hall of the museum because Price had to wait until they had all arrived to

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye | Special to The Chronicle Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s “Places to Love For” is featured in “Solidary & Solitary,” which opened Thursday.

begin installation. “You think you know as a curator how it’s going to look at the end, but until that last label is put up, that last light is focused, you don’t really know until then,” Price said. “It’s very gratifying to see it here. I think it looks beautiful.” Christopher Bedford and Katy Siegel, the originating curators of the show, wanted the exhibit to be organized in solos and duets. This arrangement is preserved at the Nasher. Some parts of the show feature singular artists while others contrast the works of two artists. This duality emphasizes the core idea of the show, which implies that the creation of art is both a

solitary and communal experience. Price is glad that many of the visitors are taking the time to examine the works closely. “It looked like they were really looking. It is very easy to just glide past a work of art,” he said. He hopes that viewers find the exhibit engaging and perhaps even find joy in the amalgam of lines, colors, grids and sculptural forms that inhabit the gallery space. The Nasher MUSE and The Bridge are hosting a student opening party for “Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection” tomorrow at 8 p.m. with a dessert reception, spoken word performances and live painting.

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Filmmaker Roger Beebe returns to Duke as part of multi-projector road trip By Ashley Kwon Staff Writer

Roger Beebe, who received his Ph.D. in Literature at Duke in 2000, came back to campus last Wednesday to present four of his multi-projector films at the Bryan Center’s Griffith Film Theater. The event was part of Beebe’s 3000-mile road trip of performances. Every couple of years, Beebe takes a semester off as an associate professor at Ohio State University and travels around the country in his Prius with six 16mm projectors. He wrote in an email that he was already interested in touring before he even began to make the work that he presented at Duke. “It seemed like an interesting way to keep my work in circulation after it ended its festival run, and it was a great way to see the world, meet new people and even earn a little, a very little, money,” Beebe wrote. Beebe chose to stop by Duke as a part of his road trip this year because he had valuable experiences here as a former Ph.D. student. “Duke is a place where I have a lot of memories and still know a lot of people who have been parts of my life as long as I have been a filmmaker,” Beebe said. “So it is a special place for me to return to, not just another stop on the tour.” When Beebe contacted Hank Okazaki, a film programmer for the Screen/Society film and video exhibition program at Duke, Okazaki organized Beebe’s performance on campus. Having known Beebe for more than a decade, he appreciated Beebe’s talent as a filmmaker. “[Beebe] was an important pillar of the local film community during his years at Duke,”

Okazaki wrote in an email. “That made it a very easy decision to invite him back to his former home to showcase his recent projects.” Toward the end of his years as an undergraduate at Amherst College, Beebe watched a diverse range of films. During a postgraduate fellowship in Paris, where he could see almost anything from all of cinematic history on the big screen, Beebe felt that continuing to make films was the logical next step. At Duke, his coursework at the graduate program in Literature offered him the first taste of filmmaking, but Freewater Productions gave him the resources and financial support to experiment and develop his own style as a filmmaker. Beebe uses more than one projector to create his films. He thought this technique of presenting multiple screens in the same scene added excitement to his works, which he said is especially crucial today when people are bombarded with media. “I am interested in turning a screen into something more singular like a live concert, where you know that you are seeing a one-of-akind event,” Beebe wrote. At Wednesday’s event, Beebe presented his works in different formats that he created through diverse processes. In many of the films, Beebe used 16mm found footage, which he collected through numerous different sources of “outdated” films, ranging from a decades-old documentary about the function of ears to a dance piece about women and technology that was filmed at the Griffith Theater. Beebe wrote that he is a collector of those films. “We are at a moment in history when people are throwing away all of this old but perfectly

Courtesy of Duke Arts of the Moving Image Filmmaker Roger Beebe presented “Films for One to Eight Projectors” in the Griffith Theater last Wednesday.

good, often even stunning and beautiful, media,” Beebe wrote. “So it’s a good time to intercept it on its way to the dumpster.” Beebe also included his own footage of Amazon’s shipping centers in his film, “Amazonia,” which he released this year. The film was notable for its unique format: He had multiple windows pulled up on his computer and narrated his story of filming the shipping centers as he opened and closed the windows. “I was thinking about the multi-projector 16mm films I had made and was wondering how to translate that to digital space,” he wrote. “Right now I have a dozen windows open and I jump from one to the next fairly reflexively, so after I had the basic idea, it was just a question of

coming up with different strategies for breaking up the desktop space with different media.” Although he believed that every person would have different experiences with his films, Beebe wanted the audience to catch his message behind the beauty of some films. “I hope there is some magic, a poetics of the image that goes beyond simple transmission of information,” Beebe wrote. “I hope the beauty of the image is a hook to get people to engage the information more deeply.” However, he focused more on aesthetics of the images presented in the rest of his films. “Some of the films really do more directly delight in form or in the basic materials of film,” he said. “It’s more of a feeling I hope to provoke in the audience rather than an idea.”

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Cosmic Rays to bring together Triangle experimental film community

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Where is the line between entertainment and art? This was the question that came up in my conversations with Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, two experimental filmmakers and professors at UNC-Chapel Hill who are organizing the Cosmic Rays Film Festival. The event will be held Thursday and Friday at the Varsity Theatre in downtown Chapel Hill. This question arose so easily in our talk partly because of the nature of filmmaking: As a medium of communication, film runs the gamut from feel-good, formulaic summer flicks to the sometimes minutes-long, individualistic and pensive experimental works characteristic of Brown and Gruffat. Certainly, experimental film often runs parallel to commercial film; it has its origins in cinematic and narrative works, tracing its birth back to the early and mid-1900s. However, experimental filmmaking is also a much more intimate process than mainstream or commercial filmmaking, sometimes entailing physical interaction with and manipulation of the film strip itself. Experimental film is art, and Brown and Gruffat consider themselves to be artists. “I know we would definitely think of ourselves as artists who use film as one of the mediums we work with,” Brown said. “I think what we do is art-making, and we have artistic concerns.” It is this blending of art and media within the medium of film that explains why experimental film has historically faced pushback from art galleries, which are influential and crucial to gaining exposure as an artist. “Filmmaking is an art form … and certainly

it has been since the beginning of the cinema, but it’s never really gotten as much respect in the world of the gallery because it grew up under different circumstances,” Brown said. However, Gruffat emphasized that film’s ties to historical cinema and to media in general allows experimental filmmaking a unique form of exploration that is not possible with other mediums. “Because [film] is a media form, it has a lot of purposes … but that also makes it even more engaging as an art form because it is also out in the world,” she said. “Media is a medium that people use all the time. It is a language that people understand, and to make art from it means taking the language and making something new from it.” Thus, experimental filmmaking fits neither

in the gallery nor fully in the theater. Perhaps no other medium of art is as characteristic of the contrast — and intersection — between entertainment and art. As such, one might expect experimental filmmaking to be concentrated solely in metropolitan areas like New York, San Francisco or Chicago, which are dense with galleries that serve as the economic core of high-brow art and are the art world’s movers and shakers, defining what is and what is not popular. However, if one considers the clustering of universities and the culture of inquiry characteristic of the “Research Triangle,” the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area makes sense as a hub for experimental film. At times experimental films feel academic, like a cerebral exercise. The university is a center for intellectual vibrancy, so it is understandable that

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experimental filmmaking would find a home in such a setting. “Durham and Chapel Hill have a storied experimental film history,” Brown said, citing a film festival called Flicker that was important in the 1990s, as well as the microcinemas and film festivals that have arisen throughout the years. “The Triangle has a lot of to be proud of in terms of experimental filmmaking.” In the last several years, Duke has made an effort to embrace experimental filmmaking; in fact, the M.F.A. program in Experimental and Documentary Arts, founded in 2011, was the first M.F.A. graduate course of study offered at Duke. Duke has attracted a number of prominent experimental filmmakers, including Alex Cunningham, Anna Kipervaser, Roger Beebe and, of course, Brown himself. “There’s a lot of people who have moved into town who are interested in animation and experimental film partly because there’s more of us teaching at UNC,” Gruffat said. “Also, the creation of the Duke M.F.A. program opened up the idea that this might be an area where there could be a growing population of people doing experimental work.” The Cosmic Rays Film Festival serves as a signal of Durham and Chapel Hill’s growing role in experimental filmmaking. However, although experimental filmmaking is distinctly a form of art and at times may be baffling to general audiences, Brown and Gruffat emphasized that the festival is not merely a meeting for filmmakers. Experimental film utilizes the language of media and is thereby accessible to all. An abbreviated version of this article appears here. For the full version, visit dukechronicle.com/ section/arts-culture.

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For the first 10 minutes of the play, Duke looked like it was a team gunning for a national championship. Grayson Allen started the fire early for the Blue Devils by making back-to-back 3-pointers. Marvin Bagley III controlled the paint with six rebounds and six points down low before the break. Even Duke’s bench got in on the action, with a banked triple from Jack White midway through the half. Cut to the last 10 minutes of play, and the Blue Devils looked like a team defeated. Costly turnovers, bricked free throws and a nonexistent presence in the paint all resulted in Duke heading home searching for answers entering its final game of the regular season. “Our defense is better when we score, and our defensive lapses come when we don’t score the ball,” Allen said. “We’re not scoring as much because we’re playing against teams that have scouted us the first couple games of the year, when nobody had seen half of our team play because we’re all young. Now we’re close to 30 games in, so teams have a lot of scouting on us and they know how to defend us, so we have to adjust to that.” In a role reversal for the Blue Devils, they failed to find See SILENCED on Page 9

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 second-half points, including a pair of clutch triples, to help Duke extend the lead to nine with less than six minutes left. The Blue Devils did not make a field goal for the last 7:02 in the contest. “We got a lot of looks on the outside there that we should’ve knocked down,” Allen said. “That makes offense even tougher, especially against a team who’s going to give

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Trevon Duval missed the front end of a one-and-one with Duke clinging to a one-point lead in the final minute.

you those looks and really pack it in on the inside and make it tough for you to get the ball to the bigs.” Duke has been riding its defense of late. The Blue Devils entered Monday’s contest holding each of their previous four opponents to fewer than 60 points, and they went big from the onset, replacing Duval in the starting lineup with sophomore Javin DeLaurier to maintain that intensity. The change also gave the Blue Devils three starters 6-foot-10 or taller against a team with just one rotation

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Grayson Allen came out of the gates strong with 11 quick points and finished with 22, but it took him 18 shots to get there.

player taller than 6-foot-6. Yet Duke failed to big plays, hustle plays, energy plays, and that’s play to its advantage in the first half in a slow- what wins the game for them.” paced game. A triple by the Hokies’ Justin Robinson cut “Part of it for us was to make them a Duke’s advantage to just three 15 seconds into halfcourt team, and we did unless we turned the second half, the smallest the lead had been the ball over,” Krzyzewski said. “That’s one since 13-11. of their strengths. They can really move it After Allen hit his first jumper since the down the court, because Justin [Robinson] 13:15 mark in the first half after the break, can take it down as fast Carter and Bagley got as possible and then You can’t give a team like involved with backClarke is such a unique to-back layups, which that life, and you let them player where he can stretched the Duke lead also do that. And then stay in the game—that’s back to seven at 41they’ve got shooters, what happens. 34. The two had been so when they get going quiet before that point, GRAYSON ALLEN in transition like that, SENIOR GUARD combining for just nine it’s why they’ve won points in the first half after 20-something games.” scoring 35 of the Blue The Blue Devils came out firing, as 19 of Devils’ 60 against Syracuse Saturday. their 32 first-half looks came from beyond the But the two never got going. Bagley and arc. Allen looked like the man we saw without Carter finished the game with just 17 points, Bagley on the court in the early going, scoring and Bagley was unproductive in the second 11 of the team’s first 16 points Monday. A pair half due to foul trouble. of triples by the senior captain sparked an “We’re not going to worry about this early 19-3 run for Duke, which stormed out anymore,” Bagley said. “We’re going to go to an early 29-14 lead with nine minutes left on the plane and go home, get a nice sleep to play in the first half. and wake up tomorrow. UNC is what we’re But the Blue Devils’ recent offensive thinking about. It’s a tough loss, you never inconsistency caught up with them. Duke want to lose like that, and you never want struggled to close the half, allowing the Hokies to lose period. You’ve got to have a short (21-9, 10-7) to respond with a 11-0 run of their memory and move on.” own led by 12 first-half points from freshman Duke will close the regular season against Nickeil Alexander-Walker. Duke took a 33-27 No. 9 North Carolina at Cameron Indoor lead into the locker room. Stadium Saturday night in Grayson Allen’s “We let them back in the game,” senior final home game. The Blue Devils could Grayson Allen said. “They got the crowd on have clinched a top-three finish in the ACC their side obviously, and that gives them a standings with a win Monday, but can now lot of life and a lot of energy. You can’t give lock up a double bye in next week’s conference a team like that life, and you let them stay in tournament as soon as Wednesday if Florida the game—that’s what happens. They make State beats Clemson.

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SILENCED FROM PAGE 8 offensive contributions from any members of their highly-touted freshman class down the stretch. Gary Trent Jr. failed to score in the second half of the contest, instead contributing a turnover despite playing the entire second 20 minutes. Wendell Carter Jr. didn’t fare much better, making just one layup off two shots from the field inside the paint. And aside from missing the front end of a one-and-one with Duke clinging to a one-point lead in the final 30 seconds of regulation, Trevon Duval notched just four points and two turnovers in the second half. Even Allen, who made up the backbone of Duke’s offense with 22 points, struggled

mightily to handle the ball, committing four of his six turnovers in the second half. The Hokies were more than happy to pick up on the mistakes the Blue Devils’ lone senior left on the court, scoring 18 points off turnovers in the final 20 minutes alone. “That’s the thing I was most worried about today, just the energy, and we didn’t have it,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “You could tell because we were irritable. We’re asking for calls and stuff like that. When you’re really fresh and you’re on top of it—and these kids have played, this is our 30th game. They’ve won a lot of games, so we didn’t play like we have been playing, acting like we normally act.” The Blue Devils’ live-ball turnovers played right into forward Chris Clarke’s hands. He steamrolled down the floor and eviscerated

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Duke in the paint, cruising through Carter and Bagley and meeting little resistance on a few of his drives. Back-to-back turnovers by Allen gave Clarke—who scored his team’s last six points—the chance to light up Cassell Coliseum, and Trent got away with what could have been a costly turnover when Clarke missed a layup a possession before his game-winning putback. “[Clarke] is a playmaker,” Allen said. “He’s not just an energy guy. He plays very hard, but the thing he does best is make plays and get other guys involved. When you’re expecting him to pass, that’s when he goes in and drives or he makes a great play like that to be on the offensive boards that wins the game for them.” Charles York | Associate Photography Editor The way Duke played in the final seven Wendell Carter Jr. had five points in the minutes is exactly the type of game that could lowest-scoring game of his career. doom the Blue Devils in the postseason. Despite touting the No. 2 offense in the nation on KenPom.com, the Blue Devils scored just Walk to Duke! (919)-309-9765 five points in the last seven minutes of play— www.TrinityProp.com all of them coming from the free-throw line, and none coming from Bagley or Carter. The West Campus East Campus duo did not get many touches at all in the Georgetown Poplar West paint down the stretch. Governor Campus Walk Meanwhile, the Hokies poured in 15 points Murchison Anderson in the same span, with four in transition and eight coming just under the basket. Staring down the barrel of the postseason less than two weeks away, Duke needs to execute better on offense to hold late leads with a vice grip. If not, all the talent in the world won’t save the Blue Devils from a very, very short month come March. “We’ve just got to get rejuvenated,” Krzyzewski said. “We’re a good basketball team. We didn’t play as well tonight, so the main thing to fix is getting rejuvenated. New York Syndication This isn’t The some, ‘Now weTimes have this problemSales Corporation 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 or that problem.’ For It’s Information part of the season. It’s Call: 1-800-972-3550 a long season.”For ForRelease ReleaseWednesday, Tuesday, February February27, 28,2018 2018 Unique and historic properties

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Board of disconnected trustees This past weekend, the Board of Trustees voted to once again increase undergraduate tuition, this time by 3.9 percent. While this annual increase is marginally less than the typical 4.0 percent average over the last decade, Duke’s official cost of attendance for the 20182019 year now stands at above $70,000 for the first time. This decision, like all decisions made by the Board, was reached behind closed, mahogany doors inside the luxurious comfort of the Washington Duke Inn. Indeed, the fact that a disconnected group of wealthy, majority-white elites (the collective net worth of the Board numbering in the billions) possess the ability to simply rubber-stamp such drastic tuition increases upon thousands of students, should be troubling to many within the Duke community. There was a time when the Board of Trustees commanded a degree of transparency and openness towards members of the greater Duke community. During President Terry Sanford’s tenure at Duke, the Board’s meetings were made transparent thanks to the active efforts of The Chronicle staff and the student body president. Since then, access to the Board’s meetings has slowly been restricted until finally becoming completely opaque again in 2010. Though access existed only superficially in the last years it was available to students, then-President Brodhead and the Board decided that entirely private meetings would improve efficiency

and facilitate more frank discussions, apparently to the benefit of the greater University. With little access or information on the proceedings of Board meetings, few members of the Duke community truly understand why specifically the cost of attendance increases annually—perhaps except for our Young Trustee representatives, who are sworn to confidentiality. In the announcement detailing the tuition increase, President Price stated that the

Editorial Board Board’s decision came after a rigorous assessment of program costs and financial aid. Yet, students are still left wondering the specifics of such assessments, and why the value of their Duke education has somehow inexplicably increased by over $10,000 within a fiveyear period. At the end of their collective venting at yet another annual tuition increase, most Duke students and their families are left throwing metaphorical rocks towards an opaque, seemingly cabalistic Board of Disconnected Elites driving away from campus in their chauffeured Porsches. Not to be forgotten, the tuition increase resulting from this Board meeting will have real effects on our campus peers and will deny access to certain potential

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admittees. University investment in financial aid is expected to grow at a greater rate than the tuition increase, but not every student at Duke is admitted under a need-blind admissions policy. International applicants to Duke University are evaluated on their intellectual ability in addition to their ability to pay the sticker-price $280,000. Unsurprisingly, a disproportionate percentage of international students often hail from elite, privileged backgrounds. In the tokenization of international students, Duke primarily favors wealthy students and thus offers a distorted international perspective skewed by wealth to domestic students. While Duke commits itself to supposedly improving institutional access along socioeconomic lines, the administration must also consider how such important decisions made by the Board behind closed doors will affect potential and current students at the University. There are currently only a handful of universities in the United States that offer need blind admissions to all applicants (including international students) in addition to meeting 100 percent of demonstrated need. If Duke is to truly become a globally diverse institution dedicated to academic excellence, then the Board should seek to become more connected to the greater student body and their everyday concerns, including the skyrocketing cost of undergraduate education in this country.

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gnorance is bliss, or so they say. I was reminded of this saying recently while rewatching a 2000 rom-com classic, “Miss Congeniality.” The movie I watched in my basement with my sister years ago was funny and sweet, a fabulous collision of the worlds of an FBI agent and a beauty queen. Watching it again, however, I couldn’t help but notice how the story’s premise was actually quite problematic and reinforced damaging gender norms.

Tara Pal COLUMNIST Oh, gone are the days when I watched Sandra Bullock’s makeover scene with envy. Back then, I was oblivious to the way her value was attached to her appearance and adherence to norms of beauty and femininity. Gone are the days when I would sing loudly along to the chorus of “She’s A Lady” during the closing credits. Back then, I didn’t realize how lines such as, “Well, she always knows her place” and “Well, she’s never in the way/Always something nice to say” implicated an ideal of female subservience. Gone are the days when I confused the film’s messages of “ugly girls can be pretty” and “pretty girls can be smart, too” for empowerment. A tale that had once seemed innocuous—about how Gracie Hart became Gracie Lou Freebush and saved the day—now left an unpleasant, sickly sweet taste in my mouth. Like rotting fruit. The reason these realizations bothered me so much was not just because “Miss Congeniality” champions pizza as the bulimic girl’s rebellion or because it tries so hard to present itself as a celebration of strong women (it’s not a beauty pageant; it’s a scholarship program!), but because watching it played into my greatest fear. I know when you ask most people what their greatest fear is, they’ll probably say something like failure (hi Duke) or snakes (hi Mom). While I try my best to avoid both, my greatest fear is something else: hypocrisy. If I truly advocate female empowerment and the abolition of prescriptive gender roles, how am I still entertained by a movie that delineates a narrow standard of female beauty and makes light of sexual harassment? My greatest fear is to discover that I’m nothing more than a hypocrite, just a fraud with lofty values who in fact stands for nothing at all. A friend echoed a similar sentiment to me the other day. We were riding in her car back from a political rally for congressional change because we are woke girls, and we care, and we do stuff. We talk the talk, and we walk the walk, baby—no hypocrites here! But in the car, my friend mentioned that she’s scared to rewatch one of her favorite childhood comedies, “White Chicks.” The 2004 movie bears similarities to “Miss Congeniality,” this time juxtaposing the world of FBI agents with that of the Hamptons’ high society, mixing in a lot of race

and gender comedy along the way. Asking anyone my age will find that “White Chicks” is a certified classic; it still shows American youth that black men are good at dancing, fighting and yo’ mama jokes, and that white women are obsessed with shopping, status and body image. So as much as we can all marvel at Terry Crews’ pecs, you can understand why my friend is worried that one distasteful joke too many will ruin the movie for her, forever. It was a bit of a relief to hear someone else haunted by that same fear of hypocrisy. However, that car ride sparked a thought: if I hadn’t watched “Miss Congeniality” again, then I may never have realized how much of the media that I consumed growing up reinforced harmful views of the marginalized groups in our society. And yes, watching “White Chicks” now may “ruin it” for my friend, but that would only be because it was rotten all along. We may not have before, but now we recognize what rotten fruit tastes like. All grown up, now we recognize that sickly sweet tang of sloppy racial commentary and false empowerment narratives. Now we recognize that the shiny peel of a feel-good comedy is enough to disguise a rotten core, so biting all the way in may be the only way for us know that we should spit it back out again. In a society where a tweet could start a nuclear war, the messages transmitted by our media have more power than ever before. Consuming media while wearing our social criticism glasses (what’s the opposite of rose-colored?) is necessary to pinpoint the portrayals that have gone uncriticized for too long, even in the wokest of minds. All our lives, often without knowing it, we’ve been consuming rotten fruit, bad apples and unconscious prejudice, and it is high time that we weed them out. Ignorance is bliss only if our idea of bliss is remaining infected with poisonous bias. And we are infected, try as we might to hide from it with our fear of hypocrisy. As we discover the flaws of our world and aim to fight racial profiling and sexual discrimination and toxic masculinity and all of the other bad, bad things, there will inevitably come times when we realize that we too are implicated. There will inevitably come moments when we must acknowledge that we too are participants in a system that perpetuates what we hate. There will inevitably come instances of realization that we died laughing at “White Chicks,” that we told a friend to toughen up and “be a man,” that we acquiesced to problematic norms by failing to defy them outright. Rewatching “Miss Congeniality” elicited one of those guilty moments for me. But strangely, it didn’t bring my beliefs tumbling like Jenga to the ground. Rather than feeling like Miss Hypocrisy, I feel like I am finally tackling the contradictions in my life and trying to get rid of the rotten fruits within my reach. And I know that we will only be better for it. Tara Pal is a Trinity sophomore. Her column usually runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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Premeds find themselves ‘not like other premeds’

t’s been brought to the attention of the Chronicle that many Duke students on the premedical track have been accused of making a highly offensive comment: “You’re not like other premeds.” The first documented instance was overheard in the library, between a sophomore and a senior: “It first came out when I was studying for biochem with this guy the day before

Amy Fan FANGIRLING our midterm. I thought he was totally charming at first and we really hit it off, but then he made this one statement: ‘You know, I like you. You’re not like the other premeds I’ve met.’ I think what he meant was that I actually had a personality and was social. That, or he thought I was too dumb to be premed. I don’t know. Either way, it’s messed up.” The senior emphatically agreed and said that she had experienced something on multiple occasions, adding: “At first, I liked hearing other non-premeds say that I wasn’t like the other premeds. It gave me a sickening sense of pride, because it made me feel like the exception to the rule. But then I realized there was something highly problematic with the statement. I had become the token pre-med student.” She continued to say that he worried that he hadn’t helped the stereotype of the pre-med student, as people would only like premeds if they behaved completely differently from the norm. After the sociology department released a report last semester that stated “Most Duke students with a perceived

personality archetype are actually totally different than said image,” we decided to do our own investigation into what we could find. We knew the stereotypes—never coming out of the library, having no intellectual curiosity, overly obsessed with their GPAs—but we wanted to ask current students to seal the real deal. What exactly characterized the “typical premed?” The first person we asked, Sam*, said, “I’m offended that people think of me as the typical premed! I don’t want to be grouped in with those people. I’m planning on going to medical school, but I’m not premed! You should be asking this guy in my organic chemistry class, A. I don’t know him too well, but he’s definitely much more premed that me.” Sam* did confirm that he did have an organic chemistry midterm coming up in two weeks, and that he was planning on studying every day from now until then, before he went back into Perkins. We decided to follow his lead and interview A, who immediately admitted that he was hypercompetitive and had carried a MCAT prep book into the freshman section of Organic Chemistry on the first day of class at 8:45, said that least he was social and at least planned his entire social life around the dates of his midterms. “The night after that organic chemistry midterm that I had been stressing about? Best night of my life. And when I was doing my shadowing over the summer, I spent all my nights socializing with the upperclassmen. I was hoping they could give me tips on how to prepare for the MCAT or get into a top medical school.” To be fair, premeds are not the only group that faces this problem, though they are likely the most commonly attacked by Chronicle columns. We also heard from a history major (“Goddammit, it’s just because I’m not prelaw,”) and

Pratt-stars (“I guess I only complain half as much about my workload as everyone else,”), and a medieval and renaissance studies major (“I guess I’m different from the other medren majors on campus, mostly because they don’t exist,”). Asides from the generic “You’re not like other _____” comments, other common complaints include: The question, “What are you?” when they really mean to ask “What major are you?” or “What are you studying?” People saying, “You’re not really a ______.” Getting asked, “What is the _____ perspective?” and having to speak for all people in their discipline. Above all, people are just worried that people are going to be identified solely by their academic interests, when everyone is clearly a unique person, just like everyone else. An economics major with a finance concentration explained it best to us, saying, “I hate it when people see me just for my major. Like obviously, it’s an important part of my academic trajectory here, and yeah, sometimes I wear my major shirt around. But if people only want to talk to me because of what I’m interested in academically, it just feels like I’m being used. I don’t want to be the ‘token sellout friend’ that people can throw around when they’re getting defensive to prove that their friends aren’t just all idealistic intellectuals.” In order for all students to flourish, we need to support each other first and foremost. After we all finish studying for their next midterm, that is. *Name has been changed.

Amy Fan is a Trinity sophomore. Her column, “fangirling,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

Like a G-6, the dancefloor, and confronting my own complicity

he year was 2010, the song was “Like a G-6,” and in one beautiful moment, I arrived at a higher state of being. I was a sixth grader who had finally discovered the liberating power of dance, and from deep in the closet, I felt the beat in some important, honest part of my soul. As I gyrated jerkily, shaking my hips without any respect for the rhythm, a crowd of girls gathered around me, loudly cheering me on. I basked in the attention and praise—this, I felt sure, was where I belonged. Seven years later, I arrived at Duke with an overwhelming confidence in my ability to dominate the dance floor. Trips to Shooters and Devine’s only affirmed that which I already knew: by taking up space and moving my body with abandon, I could establish myself socially. Quickly, I learned that dancing on my female friends was an even surer way to attract attention, so I started grinding and thrusting without a second thought. After all, I’m gay! I’m not a sexual threat to women, and I’ve spent my life surrounded by female friends—surely, I had earned the right to this kind of intimacy. These thoughts swam through my subconscious until, last October, I encountered Yolo Akili’s “Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies.” In his article, Akili describes a “male sense of ownership to women’s bodies” that is specific to gay men: freely advising women on their style or appearance, for example, or touching a woman’s body without consent. He tells a particularly shocking story of visiting a gay club in Atlanta with a black female friend; while they were dancing, a white gay man “reached out and grabbed both her breasts aggressively.” In my reading, I was forced to stop at this anecdote, horrified by its savage awfulness and, in a quieter part of myself, by its dispiriting reality. The sexism of gay men is still sexism. In Akili’s story, it’s easy to identify the physical violation of a woman’s body, but patriarchy extends deep into the culture of the gay

community. There is a long history of white gay men appropriating the cultural capital of black women, with some going so far as to claim a special kinship that cuts across oppressions of race and gender. One of my high school teachers, a white gay man, would claim to have a black woman inside of him and assume a sassy, caricatured persona—an unpleasantly perfect allegory for the claim white gay men feel to black women’s bodies and minds. The speech patterns and mannerisms for which black women are criticized earn white men praise and attention.

constructions of gender and race, my behavior is slow to align with my externalized ideology. I think this disconnect stems from a popular narrative I’ve tacitly accepted—if our society promotes a white gay man as the stock representation of queerness, his privilege as a white man is dissolved into his marginalization as a gay person. This act of erasure is the perpetuation of racism and patriarchy, and though I can passionately denounce both these systems of oppression, I’m still grappling with the knowledge that I’m complicit in their continuation. The sexism of

I can talk less, listen more, and when I butt up against that sense of entitlement, try to sit in my discomfort and anger and guilt instead of repressing those feelings.

Letter to the Editor

very day, I walk past the flag pole near Wilson Gym, and see the flag at half-mast. Now, it is mourning the victims of the Florida High School shooting, but since I’ve been at Duke, it has been lowered for too many different tragedies. Seeing half-mast flags has become more and more common over the last couple of years. School shootings, mass murders, etc... This has unfortunately become the norm. It is becoming more surprising to see our flag flying high then not. Guns are bringing our flags to halfmast so often yet nothing is being done, so why not just make shorter flag poles? Ben Stone is a Trinity sophomore.

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Furthermore, there is a powerful sense of entitlement among gay men to the emotional labor of women. When I meet a woman for the first time, I expect to be liked, as if by virtue of my white gayness, I’ve earned their friendship. A barista who doesn’t smile back, a bus driver who doesn’t acknowledge my ‘thank you,’ or a friend who doesn’t laugh at my joke all provoke an irrational prick of annoyance. In my closest friendships, I’ve long surrounded myself with women and relied on their support; though I’ve come to expect deep emotional connections in these relationships, I rarely feel pressure to reciprocate. Privilege is easily amorphized. Which is to say, even one who makes an effort to understand their own privilege can struggle to apply that understanding to their everyday actions. It’s easy to “other” the self from the system: to receive tangible benefits from the oppression of others and fail to recognize it. Despite my attempts to comprehend the social

gay men has consequences; the subconscious entitlement I feel to the bodies, minds, and emotions of the women around me directly harms those same women. But just as my harmful behavior takes place every day, so too do my opportunities to change and grow. I can talk less, listen more, and when I butt up against that sense of entitlement, try to sit in my discomfort and anger and guilt instead of repressing those feelings. When I dance, I can allow myself to feel liberated and proud, without forgetting that the dance floor is not for my exclusive enjoyment. I don’t have to dominate my physical and emotional surroundings to have fun, and in letting go of that need, I attempt to relate more honestly and authentically to the women around me. David Conlin is a Trinity first-year and member of the Duke Men’s Project.

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GUTTENTAG FROM PAGE 2 suspended, we’re not going to admit them,’” Guttentag wrote in an email. “We’d consider the person and the application as a whole, we’d look at the reason for the sanction, we’d think about the overall contribution the student made to the community and might make at Duke, and we’d put it all in context with everything else in the application.” Guttentag added that activism is a large part of Duke’s culture, so the Office of Admissions has always been open to applicants involved in civic engagement. “We’ve always had applicants who were active in the public sphere one way or another, including participating in protests, and we like to see students engaged in issues that matter to them,” he wrote. “That sense of engagement is part of what makes Duke the place it is.” Student reactions to the announcement have been positive. Sophomore Saheel Chodavadia, Duke Student Government’s senator for academic affairs, said that the statement was a great move for Duke.

“The fact that it’s a widely publicized move shows a commitment to cultivating a politically active and engaged class,” Chodavadia wrote in an email. “I hope [the Office of Admissions] continue[s] to be so open-minded and transparent in the future.” First-year Ryan Williams described the policy as a “giant step forward for both political efficacy and institutional awareness.” He noted that Duke has a responsibility to prepare its students for active citizenship after college, indicating that part of this responsibility is to encourage and enable students to engage with political movements when necessary. “I applaud Duke for recognizing students’ need to take democracy into their own hands and advocate for change,” Williams wrote in an email. “I think the University made not only the right decision, but the ethically sound decision as well.” Duke has a history of on-campus student activism, including a 1968 silent vigil lasting longer than a week following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. A 1969 sit-in at the Allen Building to attain better treatment for black students resulted in 47 involved students being placed on academic probation by the University. More

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FUNGUS FROM PAGE 3 which are caused by Trichophyton rubrum. Walking barefoot in showers and locker rooms or sharing personal items can led to the infections. “Athlete’s foot is a unique human infection,” White said. “It remains dormant for long periods of time in the skin and then can be activated in times of stress or altered immune response.” He explained that even if antifungal medication can control athlete’s foot for a period of time, people could still be infected again by surfaces like public shower floors. “Most of the drugs that we have are over the counter, and even some of the prescription ones, keep the infection at bay but don’t clear it,” Heitman said. White noted that understanding the fungus may lead to new therapies that prevent the fungus from causing disease or even a vaccine that would boost the immune system so that the fungus can never cause disease again. In the future, the researchers hope to learn about the interactions between the clonal fungus and the human immune system. Heitman noted that dermatologists are becoming much more interested in the skin’s microbiome, or the microorganisms which reside on the skin. However, one possible struggle in this research is convincing the public and scientific community of the importance of studying fungi. Even though athlete’s foot is the most common fungal infection and may be one of the top ten infections in humans, it rarely kills. “Because it rarely kills, the National Institutes of Health has made it clear that these fungi are not a priority,” White said. “Therefore, obtaining funding from the NIH to continue the studies will be difficult.”

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announcement and explained why it is important to have Latin cuisine readily available on campus. “Cuisine is a strong tie to our cultures, and for many students, having a Latin restaurant on campus is helpful because that means we don’t have to drive or walk distances to purchase food that reminds us of home,” De Jesus wrote. She noted that there has always been a “strong desire for Latin food on campus,” citing the many Fix My Campus Facebook page posts from Mi Gente and non-Mi Gente students advocating for a Latin cuisine venue. Since Mi Gente posted the announcement on their Facebook page, it has received a “lot of traction and positive feedback,” she added. “While I’m personally still in disbelief that a Latin venue was not initially thought of when considering the potential vendors for West Union, now the Brodhead Center, we are nevertheless glad that Duke Dining has been responsive to the student population,” De Jesus wrote. De Jesus added that Mi Gente hopes the new restaurant will feature a diverse menu that represents the “many nationalities and cultures of Latin America.”

PRICE FROM PAGE 1 Washington and their teams should develop an assessment plan by May 15 and work with academic leaders to develop action plans by Sept. 1, 2018. “The purpose of this self-assessment is three-fold: first, to understand the extent of this problem at Duke; second, to identify best practices and positive steps that have been taken in some units, here or elsewhere; and third, to advance a universitywide dialogue about culture, behavior, conduct and process that will lead to accountability and meaningful change,” Price wrote. “Through these assessments, we will be able, with the help of our community, to create clear plans of action that address issues of concern.” The entire effort will be coordinated by Abbas Benmamoun, vice provost for faculty advancement, and Ann Brown, vice dean for faculty in the School of Medicine. “There is, of course, no easy or simple solution to what is a long-standing problem in the academy and society,” Price noted. “However, it is my hope that, by looking critically at our own environment and taking the appropriate actions, we can make real progress toward a workplace in which every member of our community can thrive.” Check back for updates to this developing story.