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DSIG DROPS NEW MEMBER Decision comes after sexual assault allegations emerge

By Likhitha Butchireddygari Editor-in-Chief

Courtesy of Duke Photography Just hours after leaders of Delta Sigma Phi were made aware of a new member’s sexual misconduct, the fraternity dropped him.

“We hope you trust us to handle this in the most holistic and fair way possible,” asked members of Duke’s chapter of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity in an email to other students Jan. 25.

The email was referring to an informal sexual misconduct allegation against a new member of the fraternity. The new member has since been dropped by DSig and all Interfraternity Council organizations, wrote IFC President James Bradford, a senior, in an email.

“We apologize for the potential of an event at which you would not feel comfortable, that is never a circumstance we would create intentionally and we appreciate that you brought it up before it was realized,” the email noted. “We have a zerotolerance policy with these kinds of actions and we fully intend to maintain that policy with this situation.”

The senders of the email also said that “other people and organizations” knew about circumstances related to sexual misconduct before they did, and that the rush process was “imperfect” and “does not always facilitate information like this” to get to them as soon as they would like.

According to a statement from DSig’s executive board, they were made aware of the incident Jan. 25 and “took immediate action to determine the facts by speaking with individuals who witnessed the event that occurred.”

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The tent village outside Cameron Indoor Stadium will be empty until further notice, a little more than a month before Duke takes on North Carolina at home.

All tenters in Krzyzewskiville received an indefinite grace period beginning at about 10 p.m. Wednesday night due to the high numbers of student illness and the severity of the flu this year.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, asked the line monitors to give all tenters grace, co-head line monitors David Duquette and Sara Constand wrote in an email to the Krzyzewskiville Listserv Wednesday night.

Duquette and Constand wrote in an email to The Chronicle Thursday afternoon that Moneta extended the grace period through at least Monday morning after meeting with them.

There are 70 tent groups currently tenting in Krzyzewskiville, and they are now in the blue tenting period, with one person in each group of

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Graduate YT finalists named

For doctors, increase in non-English speaking patients has led to challenges, new solutions

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Imagine you’re sick. Not a stretch, considering the severity of flu season at Duke has shut K-Ville down for students at least until Monday.

Now, imagine you’re sick, and can’t understand what your doctor is saying. You don’t speak English, and the doctor doesn’t speak your language.

This situation is more common than you might think.

It is one that doctors in the Duke medical system have encountered increasingly often as Durham’s population of immigrants—especially Hispanic immigrants—has shot up in the past two decades. In response, Duke Health has implemented and expanded translation programs to accommodate patients whose first language is anything

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Graduate Young Trustee candidates were announced Thursday afternoon

by Graduate Young Trustee Selection Committee members.

The finalists include Amy Hafez, graduate student in the department of molecular genetics and microbiology; Kristin Wainwright, graduate student in the School of Nursing; and William Brody, graduate student in the Fuqua School of Business.

The election will take place Feb. 13.

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HEALTH AND SCIENCE

New study connects eye movements, vibrations in the eardrum

By Sam Kim Staff Reporter

To the majority of people who cannot wiggle their ears, a new study offers a consolation—all humans can wiggle their eardrums, just by moving their eyes.

The study, led by Duke neuroscientists and neurobiologists, showed a direct link between eye movements and vibrations in the eardrum—a thin membrane in the ear that amplifies and conducts sound. When the participants kept their head still and glanced to the left, their eardrums bulged to the right and vibrated. When they glanced to the right, the eardrums bulged in the opposite direction.

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Duke project aims to improve outcomes in early childhood development

By Kathryn Silberstein Staff Reporter

Plenty of groups say that improving early childhood programs is important, and a new initiative at Duke is doing just that.

The All Babies and Children Thrive initiative is a multi-million dollar fund aimed at sponsoring new research project teams to tackle a variety of early childhood issues, with the teams going through an application process to receive the backing.

“The goal is to fuel innovation in the space of prenatal-to-age-five care,” said Leigh Ann Simmons, chair of the fund’s steering committee and associate professor in the Duke School of Nursing.

The ABC Thrive initiative will combine funds from the Bass Connections Challenge and a $2 million gift from the Sperling Family Charitable Foundation—founded by alumna and trustee Laurene Meir Sperling and her husband—to total a $3 million fund. A faculty steering committee drawing from diverse disciplines will disperse the funds in seed grants to a range of research projects aimed at holistically improving outcomes for young children.

As of now, the specific projects the initiative will fund is yet to be determined. Simmons explained that the faculty committee will receive letters of intent by Feb. 9 and

Special to the Chronicle A multi-million dollar fund, the All Babies and Children Thrive initiative aims to sponsor research to tackle early childhood issues.

official proposals a month later. The committee expects to announce which four projects will be funded and what the focus of the projects will be by early April.

Each seed project will be completed within a year, at which point the four research teams will use the pilot information that they’ve generated to compete for one larger, $150,000 grant to fund a two-year project, building off of the completed pilot. At the end of the three years, the process will start again.

The broader goal here is to start conversations that wouldn’t have happened before, between researchers and faculty that may never have thought to collaborate. ABC Thrive’s three target areas of study are community outreach, applied technology to achieve scale and prenatal and early childhood health and wellness.

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affect auditory processes.”

Even more surprising was that these vibrations happened a fraction of a second before the eyes started moving. This ruled out any possibility that the ears were responding or reacting to the movements in the eye.

“This is a proof of principle that the sensory systems are interacting with each other at very early points in [brain] processing,” Groh said.

To measure the eardrums, the researchers asked participants to look at lights placed at different angles in a dark, silent room.

They then used small, earbud-like microphones to pick up the imperceptible airwaves generated inside the ear.

Scientists have known about the existence of these otoacoustic emissions—usually faint echoes of heard sounds, sent back by the cells that received them—for at least 40 years. But the discovery that the eardrums move whenever the eyes move, even without any external noise, came as a total surprise.

“We were actually looking for something entirely different,” said Capt. Kurtis Gruters, a soldier-scientist at Fort Bragg and a co-first author of the study who earned his Ph.D. at Duke in

2016. “We were really surprised when we started seeing these large, consistent oscillations.”

The research began with a thought experiment during his senior year of college, Gruters said. As a music major and a percussionist, he was interested in how sight and sound interact, and he guessed something interesting would happen if he tested the eardrums for vibrations. But the study quickly grew out of control, and what began as a summer project ended up taking more than five years.

“We realized it was actually starting to work, and we started thinking about how important the result would be if we nailed it right,” Gruters said. “It became my entire dissertation.”

The findings, published on Jan. 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, add to the mounting evidence that our senses are intimately connected, working together to shape how we perceive the world around us.

“In general, the brain is not trying to see or hear,” Groh said. “Rather, it’s trying to understand what is happening. And it’s got a lot of spies giving it intelligence about the events in the world.”

She explained that the eyes and ears work together all the time. For example, we listen better when we can also read lips, our sight helps us focus on one voice in a crowd and our pupils dilate when we’re paying extra attention to another person’s

words, almost as if the eyes are acting “a little more like the auditory system.”

The Duke scientists found the same eye-eardrum link in rhesus monkeys, and Groh expects to find it in other animals as well, such as rodents and cats. Because it is a common trait across different lineages and species, it could be an evolutionary advantage. But David Murphy, a graduate student in Groh’s lab and the other co-first author of the study, said it was too soon to tell.

“That is the general assumption,” Murphy said. “But it could be an a nonessential product of something else going on.”

Meanwhile, Murphy said the findings could have profound implications in understanding nervous conditions like traumatic brain injury, which affects many soldiers and professional football players, and degenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.

But Gruters said he was most excited about how the study would change scientific thinking. Although most scientists believe our sensations remain separate until they are processed in the brain, the findings suggest that our two main senses— seeing and hearing—are linked from the very start. Questions remain over which other senses are involved.

“We think this is opening up a Pandora’s box,” Gruters added.

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the details of an alleged incident, our members are qualified to act on information related to the environment that their events

to comment. Bradford praised DSig’s removal of its new member, adding that it was their obligation to “create a more comfortable and safer environment.”

“That Delta Sigma Phi chose to drop this new member because of how his presence made women feel attending their events is a positive step in improving the culture surrounding fraternity sponsored events,” he wrote.

For DSig, it goes beyond removing the new member. In the statement from the fraternity’s executive board, they noted that they were pursuing education about sexual assault prevention, including P.A.C.T.—a student-facilitated training on gender violence sponsored by the Women’s Center—for their members, and reaching out to sororities for feedback on additional measure to prevent sexual assault.

“As part of Delta Sigma Phi’s mission of Building Better Men, we are committed to educating our members about sexual assault prevention and have zero tolerance for sexual misconduct,” the statement read.

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FROM PAGE 1 sexual advances, and our heart goes out to the individual who experienced this during an event with our chapter,” the executive board’s statement noted.

The statement added that the chapter decided to remove the new member “just hours” after the incident was brought to their attention. The Chronicle was able to identify this individual, but he did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication of this report.

Bradford noted that DSig’s investigation of the sexual misconduct claim and subsequent removal of a member does not replace the University’s formal sexual misconduct process, noting limitations on what fraternities are able to do regarding sexual assault.

“Although the men in the IFC are unqualified to investigate

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Blue Devils pull away from aggressive Yellow Jacket squad with 16-4 run to close the game

By Conner McLeod Staff Reporter

A battle of the bigs took place at Cameron Indoor Stadium Thursday evening, as No. 19 Duke took on one of the tallest teams in college basketball in Georgia Tech.

The Yellow Jackets came up short, however, against the Blue Devil frontcourt for the second 59 year in a row as GT 77 Duke extended its DUKE winning streak to three games. Graduate student guard Lexie Brown led the Blue Devils with 24 points in their 77-59 win.

“It was great physical play and great team play. I’m really proud of the way we fought together,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “It was the physical way that Jade [Williams] played that was so important to us.”

Georgia Tech made it clear from the beginning that it would play a scrappy game, and Duke (18-5, 7-3 in the ACC) took some time to match its intensity before pulling away. McCallie started all three of her centers in freshman Jade Williams, senior Erin Mathias and graduate student Bego Faz Davalos. Williams in particular accepted the

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Graduate student Lexie Brown was a steady ball-handler against Georgia Tech’s full-court press and led all scorers with 24 points. lofty task of defending the Yellow Jackets (13-10, 2-8) and dominated the paint with a breakout game.

Since being inserted into the starting lineup, Williams has continued to grow,

getting more and more aggressive each time out. Her progress materialized against the Yellow Jackets, as she finished with 16 points, eight rebounds and six blocks. One block led to an impressive spin move on the next

offensive possession for a bucket.

“We knew coming out that this would be a very physical game. I had a lot of pep talks from everybody that I needed to be strong, be physical,” Williams said. “When [Georgia Tech] started trapping everybody, it was kind of easy for [my teammates] to find me.”

After the Blue Devils trailed by four at the end of the first quarter, a smothering 3-2 zone opened up the game to begin the second period. Three early turnovers and a poorly executed zone by the Yellow Jackets let Duke go on an 11-2 run, topped off with a fast-break corner 3-pointer by graduate student Rebecca Greenwell off a Mathias steal.

“Whatever we were doing out there, I liked the IQ of our team defensively,” McCallie said.

“I thought we made them work very hard, and to hold them to 32 percent [shooting] overall was terrific.”

Duke held Georgia Tech to just eight points in the second quarter, as it headed into the locker room at halftime up 40-28.

The Yellow Jackets elected to run a full-court press for the entirety of the game, which, despite Duke committing 17 turnovers, did not necessarily have the effect they hoped for. Many of the Blue Devils’ See W. BASKETBALL on Page 5

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Blue Devils visit slumping Red Storm at Garden

By Michael Model Assistant Blue Zone Editor

Coming off a dominant, bounce-back victory Monday night against Notre Dame, the Blue Devils will face a one-game layoff from conference play this weekend when they travel to their home away from home in New York.

No. 4 Duke will take the floor against a struggling St John’s team at Madison Square Garden in New York Saturday at noon, No. 4 looking to continue Duke its dominance in the vs.

Big Apple. The Blue St. Devils have a 29-10 Johns record at the Garden SATURDAY, Noon under head coach Madison Square Garden Mike Krzyzewski, who has reached a few historic milestones in that arena as well.

On Nov. 15, 2011, Krzyzewski became the winningest coach in Division I history when he earned his 903rd career victory against Michigan State. Three seasons later on Jan. 25, 2015, Krzyzewski notched his 1,000th career win with a 77-68 victory against the Red Storm in the teams’ last meeting.

“It’s obviously a very special place,” freshman Wendell Carter Jr. said. “Cameron Indoor is probably the most special place for Duke basketball, but there have been a lot of great plays for Duke in Madison Square Garden. We just have to continue that culture.”

In order for the Blue Devils (19-3) to continue their success in New York, they will need to continue to dominate the interior against an undersized St. John’s squad.

Freshman Marvin Bagley III will be looking to get back on track after the worst offensive performance of his young career Monday.

The Phoenix native converted on just 4-of-14 attempts from the field, uncharacteristic for a dominant interior player with 17 doubledoubles on the season.

Fellow big man Carter, on the other hand, just finished the best five-game stretch of his young career. The Atlanta native has averaged 18.0 points and 11.2 rebounds per game in that span while shooting nearly 70 percent from the field. Despite the recent success on the court, Carter still feels he has room to improve down the stretch.

“I can do much better,” Carter said. “Not so much scoring points and getting rebounds, but I can do more for my team. Do more of the

dirty work for my team so we can come out on top in these close games we’ve been having...

We made a lot of young mistakes, and we’ve been working on that in practice.”

Fellow freshman Gary Trent Jr.’s performance has helped Carter dominate the interior of late. Trent’s ability to knock

down the three-ball with consistency has spaced opposing defenses and given the big men the space they need to operate in the post. The Columbus, Ohio, native has been lights out from the perimeter, converting on See M. BASKETBALL on Page 5

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Wendell Carter Jr. will likely match up well with the Red Storm’s undersized frontcourt in his first trip ever to Madison Square Garden.

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Duke seeks revenge vs. Falcons in season opener

By Philip Coons Staff Reporter

The temperatures are rising, tents are up outside Cameron Indoor Stadium and the grass has been clipped at Koskinen Stadium.

The arrival of February on campus marks the start of lacrosse season, and expectations are high once again for the Blue Devils.

Preseason No. 1 Duke will face Air Air Force at Koskinen Force Saturday at 1 p.m. The vs.

Falcons have beaten No. 1 Duke in Durham in Duke the last two seasons, SATURDAY, 1 p.m. and Duke head coach Koskinen Stadium John Danowski has made sure his team is recognizing that fact before the game.

“We are scared out of our minds,” Danowski said. “It has been a tough week of practice. The weather has been really cold.

The skills have not been sharp, and Air Force has beaten us the last two years.”

Coming off their second Southern Conference title in a row and third NCAA tournament appearance in four seasons, the Falcons bring experience into Koskinen.

But several players and coaches were suspended for alleged hazing and drug use last summer, and a cloud has hung over the program ever since. Although the 11 juniors and seniors have since been reinstated, the status of Air Force head coach Eric Seremet is still up in the air.

Senior attackmen Chris Walsch and Nick Hruby lead the way for the Falcons. Walsch had two goals and Hruby had four tallies to help beat the Blue Devils 11-10 last February.

Longtime goalkeeper Mitch Rose graduated last spring, so Duke will look to take advantage of Air Force’s inexperienced back line.

Helping the Blue Devils get over the hump against the Falcons this weekend will be senior attackman Justin Guterding.

A second-team All-American last spring, Guterding had 97 points off 56 goals and 41 assists. Guterding and junior midfielder Brad Smith will lead a young but talented Duke offensive attack.

Defensively, Duke is led by junior Cade Van Raaphorst and sophomore JT GilesHarris. Van Raaphorst was one of three Blue Devils selected to the preseason All-ACC team. The Phoenix native earned All-ACC recognition as a sophomore as well, becoming the first Duke close defensemen to earn allconference honors since Tony McDevitt in 2008. Van Raaphorst finished the season with 40 ground balls and 19 caused turnovers, which led the team.

“We are just figuring out how we are going to play, and now we have a scout look,” Van Raaphorst said. “Rather than getting ready to play ourselves, we are playing someone else with a different offense.

[We are] just trying to get prepared for Air Force. We’ve been looking at a couple different options, but for the most part we play a pretty standard defense and we don’t care who comes and plays in our stadium, we just play.”

Last spring, the Blue Devils welcomed a core of inexperienced offensive talent to Durham. Sophomores Joey Manown, Kevin Quigley, Reilly Walsh, Terry Lindsay and junior Sean Lowrie matured over the course of the season and bring explosive offensive depth for the Blue Devils. That group finished their freshman season with 101 combined points.

The Blue Devils bring back 81 percent of their total offensive output from last season, but early indications show that Duke still has a long way to go to show it can live up

W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 4 points came from wide-open layups after breaking Georgia Tech’s zone press time and time again. This contributed to Duke scoring 30 points in the paint and overcoming Georgia Tech’s size and speed.

The injury bug continued to plague the Blue Devils, as redshirt sophomore Haley Gorecki—who has had a breakout season so far—was sidelined due to a hip injury. Although the Blue Devils came away with a win, her contributions were missed in a hectic third quarter as Greenwell rested. During that time, Duke’s offense struggled playing with Brown as the sole ball-handler, which opened the door for the Yellow Jackets to make an 8-0 run to cut the lead to 11 at the end of the period.

“Sometimes when there’s adversity and bad things happen—which I feel we’ve had some bad things happen, especially for Haley—sometimes there’s something to look for, something to get from it,” McCallie said. “I thought our team showed a lot of savvy, because that lineup had never played together all year.”

Georgia Tech would not go away after being down by as many as 17 going into the fourth quarter, trimming the deficit to as little as four points. But the team’s effort was not enough to get over the edge, as the Blue Devils finished the game on a 16-4 run.

“We just had to put some stops together and get some defensive rebounds,” Brown said. “They were killing us on their offensive rebounds. That second-shot opportunity is how they were getting a lot of their scoring.”

Duke will next take the floor for a marquee matchup with No. 5 Notre Dame in Durham Sunday afternoon.

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Preseason All-ACC attackman Justin Guterding returns for his final season at Duke as one of the nation’s top scoring threats. to the hype. Duke hosted Ohio State for a scrimmage last weekend and the Buckeyes were the faster and more explosive team, as Duke’s younger midfield and defense units were stretched by the more technicallysound Buckeyes.

“We lost to Ohio State last weekend in a scrimmage pretty badly.” Danowski said.

“With our first guys in, their first guys handled our first guys. Final score was 1312 but everybody subbed liberally, and so we actually got handled pretty easily. So none of us here think we are No. 1. We have the mindset where we are No. 71. We just want to get better each day.”

Helping the Blue Devils improve this season is 2010 national champion and Tewaaraton Award winner Ned Crotty.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 4 60.5 percent on his attempts from downtown in the last six games. Trent also has drained at least five 3-pointers in four of those six contests.

Senior captain Grayson Allen spoke about Trent’s shooting ability following Duke’s victory against Notre Dame Monday.

“Guys aren’t going to be able to leave him because of how he’s knocking it down,” Allen said. “He’s shooting in guys’ faces, shooting it from deep, so he’s a big offensive weapon for us and really just adds to our offensive firepower where hopefully guys have to pick their poison a little bit.”

On the defensive side of the ball, the Blue Devils have also done a much better job on the perimeter since starting conference play 1-2. After allowing more than 92 points per contest during the first three games of ACC play, Duke has buckled down defensively, using a 2-3 zone in spurts to shut teams down. The Blue Devils have now held each of their last three opponents to worse than a 30 percent conversion rate from downtown and have not allowed a team to break the 75-point mark in their last seven contests.

The Red Storm (10-13) will likely struggle to reach the 75-point plateau as well if their shooting woes continue Saturday. St. John’s has converted on a mere 31.6 percent of its 3-point attempts this season and has played off its guards’ ability to penetrate for the majority of its scoring this season.

Sophomore Shamorie Ponds leads the Red Storm with 19.7 points per contest, but they could find themselves in trouble against the tall trees down low.

Despite dropping 11 consecutive contests, St. John’s is not a pushover for the Blue Devils. Saturday will mark the

Crotty joined the Duke staff in September, as he continues to be a member of the MLL’s Rochester Rattlers and Team USA. “Ned has been great,” Danowski said. “I learn from Coach K—you bring the former players back as coaches and they just bring something different. They went to school at Duke, they played here. There is a certain pride they have in place. So the guys can’t get away with anything.”

Guterding and senior goalkeeper Danny Fowler were also selected as preseason AllACC players. Guterding is currently sixth on the all-time Duke scoring list, one point behind Crotty.

“The collective senior leadership has been great as a group.” Danowski said. “Since the fall from day one, they have done a terrific job.”

third top-10 matchup for the Red Storm this season and the second in as many tries. In five previous matchups against ranked opponents, St. John’s has lost by an average of just 6.8 points, including a 73-68 loss against No. 6 Xavier Tuesday night at home.

“St. John’s is a very talented team,” Carter said. “They have a lot of great guards…we hope it’s going to be a great defensive game for us. We’re going to communicate a lot, stop ball screens. If we do all of the little things, we should be all right.”

Hank Tucker and Mitchell Gladstone contributed reporting.

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s we approach the one year anniversary of the controversial executive order that banned travel from seven predominantly Muslim nations, it’s due time to evaluate its merits, or lack thereof. Crafted of course by none other than Duke alumnus Stephen Miller, the travel ban was promulgated in large part as a move to satiate the more xenophobic tendencies of a core voter base of supporters that secured President Trump’s victory. Beyond the moral and ethical implications of the directive, the ban is also troubling in terms of how out of touch it is with the realities of the contemporary terrorism. If anything, this move by the Trump administration was hugely detrimental vis-a-vis domestic counterterrorism efforts because it played directly into narratives used for radicalization.

The principle domestic terrorism threat, as exemplified over the past year, is that of lone-wolf or homegrown terrorists. The stringent and overbearing monitoring of phone metadata and emails allowed by the Patriot Act has almost entirely eliminated the threat of a 9/11-style attack in which a large of group of people conspire to carry out a barrage. While there is much to critique about the way post-September 11th hysteria played out in foreign policy and domestic legislation, it is undoubtedly true that the reactionary responses by the US has meant that an attack on a

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similar scale to the World Trade Center and Pentagon would be logistically impossible. The threat of terrorist networks emigrating into the United States—the threat that the travel ban supposedly attempts to neutralize— is an empty one. Moreover, what is concerning is the way in which the current threat, lone-wolf terrorism, is actually exacerbated by the travel ban.

Editorial Board Any member of the Trump administration who is actually well-read on matters of extremism would know that the small and particular strain of jihadi intellectualism we see manifest in prominent fringe organizations paints and distorts texts to frame Islam as being entirely at odds with the West. This specific ideological project propagates a perverted version of Islamic religious tenets that are only further fueled by the actions and statements coming out the White House. While claiming to be ‘tough on terrorism,’ President Trump and his advisors have given a helping hand to radicalization efforts everywhere. It is all the more credible for a recruiter to claim that the United States is incompatible with Islam when after over a decade of violent occupation and a permawar in Afghanistan, the newest commander-in-chief makes it

his first priority to demonize Muslims and set religiouslytarget travel policies.

Ironically, the narrative of civilizational discordance that extremists want to promote is also favored by some elements of Trump’s voter base. The hyper-nationalist flanks of his alt-right supporters actively promote the very same idea that Muslims cannot ever be part of American life. It is truly egregious for a President to champion an executive order this ill-devised and dangerous in order to while pander to his own political crowd at the potential cost of worsening both the lives of Muslims internationally and our current national security situation. Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programs that seek to foster cooperation with Muslim communities naturally lose their credibility in the face of an irrational, islamophobic head of state.

The contortions of Quranic verses and Hadiths that are used to justify violent action by extremists must also be nullified by Islamic clerics working with the government, efforts which are made even more difficult by a President that demonizes Muslims for political gain. While the first year of the Trump administration has felt like a drawn-out one, we still can’t be sure of how much long term damage will be done by policies like these that are enacted for the xenophobes within his base. Time will only tell how this administration will change the course of history for the worse.

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or those of you who haven’t taken a Yale tour in the past 7 years, please take a moment of your time to watch this video. 17 minutes of cringe can be too much for some so please view at your own discretion (three minutes or so should do the trick).

Now that you’ve had the chance to watch (and can from now on never un-see or un-hear) the affront to all things art

Sami Kirkpatrick WORMS IN SPACE that is “That’s Why I Chose Yale,” let’s debrief.

Yale admissions first starting showing the video in 2010 to kick off the information session portion of their campus tours and has been running it ever since. That’s right, every single high schooler who has toured Yale since 2010 has had to sit through this crap, myself included. I remember it vividly: just after stepping over what felt like hundreds of New Haven’s homeless population on my way to the auditorium where the info session was being held, my dad and I arrived late to the meeting only to be immediately assaulted with a smug face singing “Every day I’d debate, where to matriculate.”

I felt like turning around and leaving right there.

But I chose to stay and power through, regretting with each passing minute the decision I had made.

So what is it that’s so wrong with this video? Is it not a valiant attempt to make the typically boring information engaging and entertaining for prospective students who have probably sat through dozens of other tours already?

Well, first off, the entire tone of the thing is off. It seems to understand to the slightest degree its absurdity and is accordingly somewhat tongue-in-cheek. But all this fails because it soon becomes abundantly clear that the video as a whole is intended to be a serious introduction to what the school has to offer and that any humor is simply a misguided attempt to justify how stupid the whole thing is.

Another thing that drives me crazy about the video is how bad the lyric writing is. Conveying information through rhyme is no easy task, and the video’s answer to solving this problem is to state the information that is important and then rhyme it with something incredibly superfluous. Take for instance at 4:11 when a guy sitting in a common room sings: “Each [residential college] has a common room, which we could not live without, to study or to meet in groups or simply to hang out.” The only useful information in that sentence is that each college has a common room, which, as On Harvard Time’s spoof points out, is “kind of like student dorms at every f***ing school,” and then the rest of the rhyme is just useless information and a complete waste of time. I could cite numerous other examples of this (pretty much every other line does it) but there’s not enough room in this column to fit them all.

My favorite moment in the video would have to be

when a young and extremely orange Allison Williams (who would go on to star in the hit HBO series Girls as Marnie Michaels) sings: “Master’s teas are a chance to see, all your favorite celebrities,” only to cut to an example of one of these celebrities, Allison’s father and disgraced former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. I know it’s slightly hypocritical of me to criticize, seeing as the only celebrity Duke can ever seem to get to come to anything is Grant Hill, but is Brian Williams really the best person that Yale could get? And even if it was, did they really need to have him be sung about by his daughter?

Look, not everything about the video is bad. The scale and production of it is pretty impressive, far better than anything Duke could pull off, and albeit cringy, the video is more entertaining than hearing someone speak over a slideshow.

But the video is fundamentally flawed for two reasons in my opinion. Firstly, it’s 17 minutes long and covers mostly information gone over afterwards in the info session or later on the tour. No matter how entertaining the thing could be, it will always be a waste of time.

Secondly, the video has the potential to show artistically inclined students what Yale is capable of in that regard, but anyone with any ounce of artistic ability sees that this video is terrible. It achieves the complete opposite of what it sets out to do.

For me personally, I wouldn’t say that the video necessarily turned me off of applying to Yale; Yale wasn’t the right place for me regardless. But I will say that it gave me a really bad first impression of the school, an impression that has since then morphed into a meme of sorts among my family and friends. Nearly four years later, I still find that the phrase “And that’s why I chose Yale” in song form will pop into my head on occasion.

So you can understand why I was thrilled to hear that on December 8, 2017, Yale admissions announced that it planned to replace the old video with a new one called “That’s Why I Toured Yale.”

Upon watching the video, I was simultaneously extremely disappointed and impressed. Disappointed because the new video was not the hilarious disaster I was expecting it to be. The video is no longer a musical and is devoid of almost all the cheese with which the original was imbued.

Impressed because this new video fixed almost everything I took issue with in the original. It’s half the length, filled with useful information, and doesn’t crash and burn as it attempts to make unfunny joke after unfunny joke.

I will forever miss the original video, but I’m happy that Yale was able to learn from its mistakes and create a product that I think has the potential to make traditional college tours more exciting and engaging. Who knows, maybe if I had seen this new video when I was on my tour, I would have chosen Yale.

Sami Kirkpatrick is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “worms in space,” runs on alternate Fridays.

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y apologies, fellow political junkies: in truth, State of the Unions aren’t all that important. They’re certainly interesting—Washington loves to pull out pageantry, from its deluge of issuebased pins to the carefully composed distress

Cameron Beach COLUMNIST of the opposition. It’s a game of stand, clap, sit and repeat—good exercise, but not much policymaking. We don’t watch the State of the Union to see the implementation of policy, hear the announcement of new treaties or observe a government in action: we watch the State of the Union because the president’s words matter.

This annual speech is the executive’s largest formal platform; for one night, he has the attention of the nation. The State of the Union is about one thing— the words that the most powerful person in the country chooses to use. And the ones he doesn’t.

On Wednesday evening, President Trump gave his first State of the Union address. Fox News called it “visionary.” The New York Times called it “effective.” CNN wrote “it felt like the tumult...of the last few years never happened.”

His address had the elements of an average State of the Union: it was long, patriotic, and—if we’re being honest— boring. It wasn’t a Donald Trump campaign speech, rife with racist featherruffling and off-script tangents. It wasn’t met with widespread denunciation. But that doesn’t mean his speech was unremarkable.

On Wednesday evening, President Trump gave his first State of the Union. But it wasn’t the president’s first time using words, stories and emotions to proffer a divisive and bigoted message.

Absent new policy to unveil, President Trump filled his address with stories. There was the family who adopted a baby from an opioid-addicted mother, two Ohio businesspeople who are “handing out raises” after tax reform and a 12-year-old boy planting flags on veterans’ graves. These stories are heartwarming, but President Trump’s speechwriters aren’t using them for teary eyes: they’re using them because stories are powerful. Stories that pull at our emotions are the most effective ways to persuade—they trigger our anger, our love, our empathy. In the case of the three stories above, stories aren’t a dangerous tool. But they certainly can be.

“For decades, open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities,” Trump said, as he began to address immigration. He then launched into the story of Kayla and Nisa, two young girls who were “brutally murdered” by “the savage MS-13 gang.”

“Many of these gang members took advantage of glaring loopholes in our laws to enter the country as illegal, unaccompanied, alien minors,” he continued. “And wound up in Kayla and Nisa’s high school.”

Here, Trump is peddling a single story: immigrants are gang members, immigrants are murderers and immigrants infiltrate your children’s schools with malignant intent. This is the story that tugs on emotions, the story that makes the president’s calls to stem the

distribution of visas, end family reunification policies and create a “merit based immigration system” seem more palatable. But stories are as powerful as they are dangerous: the story of Kayla and Nisa is the truth, yet the story Trump paints of American immigrants couldn’t be farther from it.

We heard President Trump on the campaign trail, and throughout his presidency, when he declared that immigrants bring “drugs” and “crime.” They’re “rapists.” Perhaps some of them, he assumes, are good people. But this story of immigrants he has created—the story of gangs and drugs and crime—is not reality.

Dozens of studies, from both before and after the Trump presidency, have found that immigrants do not commit more crime than native-born Americans; in fact, they commit less. Census data from 1980 through 2010 reveals that adult male immigrants are one-fifth as likely to be incarcerated as their native-born American counterparts. In 2016, President Trump directed the Department of Homeland Security to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants.

This was his desperate appeal to American empathy: look at these terrible stories, he tells us. Forget the facts. President Trump is using the power of stories to manipulate the head and the heart, proffering a fictitious and dangerous narrative of immigration.

I have a different story to tell the president.

When I was sixteen years old, I met a girl in my math class who I will refer to as Maria. We sat at a desk across from each other, and though I’d never met her before, she reached out to me on the eve of our first exam. “Hey,” she pulled me aside one day, “Want to study after school?”

I agreed, and as the bell rung, we both made our way to the library. Studying with her was like hiring a personal drill instructor: Maria worked harder, more diligently and more effectively than anyone I’d ever seen. We aced the test, and soon, Maria and I became friends. I learned that her mother and father had met in El Salvador, they had come to the United States after the death of their parents, and they had raised her on the income of a custodian and a part-time nurse. Now, her father was a policeman, and her mother was pursuing her graduate degree.

These stories are the reality of immigration in the United States. Immigrants are not a criminal and threatening mass, but a coalition of smart and dedicated individuals—each with a powerful and important story.

While speaking about immigration, President Trump thundered that his job is to “defend Americans”—to protect safety, families and communities. He finished with an allusion to the Dreamers, immigrants brought to America by their parents as youth—people that President Trump plans to deport, barring a deal on immigration.

He asked Congress to “close the deadly loopholes” in our immigration system; after all, he ended, “Americans are dreamers, too.”

When the president said that, he tried to tell us two things: that immigrants are not Americans, and that immigrants put America in danger. It’s time we tell him two things back: that immigrants make America great, and that stories matter. The president should choose his more wisely.

Cameron Beach is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs on alternate Fridays.

Housing: What are the alternatives?

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ampus is abuzz with talk of housing reform. Some students are proposing changes to our current system, while others are defending it. One thing is certain: Duke’s housing system is unique. None of our peer institutions offer anything quite like it.

Nowhere else are incoming students randomly assigned to freshman dorms on their own campus, then sorted into one of three distinct residential communities— independent housing, Greek organizations or non-Greek selective living groups (SLGs)— where they will live for up to three years.

To inform our conversation on housing, we should consider the following question: How do our peer institutions handle housing?

Which housing models enjoy broad student satisfaction, and which ones disappoint students? Specifically, which models foster friendship, academic success, intellectual curiosity, healthy social interactions, peer mentorship and exposure to a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives?

In writing this piece, we spoke to dozens of students at Duke’s peer institutions. Again and again, we heard the same suggestion: If Duke is seriously considering housing reform, we should examine the residential college system.

At Yale, first-years are randomly assigned into residential colleges before they arrive on campus. Approximately 600 to 800 students live in each college. In their first year, only some students live with their residential college, but everyone has weekly meals with their college and full access to its resources. Each residential college has a head and a dean. The former lives and eats in the college with their family, while the latter manages the academic affairs of students in the college. Residential colleges also sponsor events within the college to build community among their students.

Regarding Yale’s system, Yale freshman Sammy Landino told us, “I remember coming to school as a freshman and feeling really

dislocated in a campus with over 5,000 people who I, for the most part, didn’t know at all.

Yale’s residential college system immediately placed me in the heart of student life.” It’s no surprise then, that when two Yale alumni meet, they ask each other, “What college were you in?” Residential college living is, according to Yale, “an affiliation that lasts a lifetime.”

Harvard’s “Upperclass House” system is composed of 12 houses that serve as the center of residential life for sophomores, juniors and seniors. At the end of each academic year, first-years form a bloc with

Harvard feel a bit more like home.”

The Rice residential college system is similar to the system at Yale. First-years are sorted into 11 different colleges for their first year. Unlike at Yale, however, most first-years live in their colleges. Rice’s system stresses student self-governance with several different governing bodies that manage student-operated resources like tutors or peer health advisers. Rice senior Sam Akers told us, “Each college is a community unto itself. You live, eat, learn and grow with the same people your entire

“...Only 56 percent of Duke students graduating in 2017 agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that “Duke houses provide a sense of community and sense of belonging.”

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their friends, and then each bloc is randomly assigned to a house. Campus erupts in celebration on Housing Day, when students learn of their house assignments.

Each Harvard house has its own dean to preside over the house and its activities.

Houses also have a house committee which plans events and operates similarly to Duke’s house councils. While students can choose to live off campus beginning in their sophomore year, 98 percent of undergraduates choose to live in the residential houses. Harvard sophomore Wesley Cash told us that the house model “makes Harvard feel smaller and creates a friendly sense of rivalry and community at the college. Seeing familiar [faces] in the dining halls, celebrating unique house traditions, or simply attending house community dinners every Thursday make

to the theme live within the residential colleges. Non-residential students can also affiliate with the colleges. Northwestern’s residential colleges are similar to Duke’s selective living groups but with an academic tilt exemplified by the faculty-in-residence.

Other universities with residential college systems include Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Miami and Cornell University.

Admittedly, the data we present are anecdotal and limited to only a few institutions. But if Duke administrators and Board of Trustees are as excited as students are to examine the alternatives to Duke’s housing model, they’ll know where to find the data. Duke contributes data on student outcomes to the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE), which in turn allows Duke to access data from peer institutions. COFHE data includes information on housing, such as student responses to the question, “Do you have a sense of community where you live?”

In a “data brief ” dated Sept. 21, 2017, Duke’s Office of Student Affairs found that only 56 percent of Duke students graduating in 2017 agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that “Duke houses provide a sense of community and sense of belonging.”

Our largely anecdotal discussion here would be greatly complemented if we could compare Duke students’ responses on “sense of community where you live” to responses from students at Yale, Harvard, Rice, Princeton, Northwestern and other schools with a residential college system.

Let’s hope the administrators with access to confidential COFHE data have read to this point and will investigate the matter. The moment is ripe.

college career, so opportunities abound for deep friendships. It really is a family.” He added, “If I had to point out a downside for you, it’s that everyone not in your college is a part of a different college—it’s hard to nurture those same close friendships with people outside your bubble.”

Northwestern’s system allows for more flexibility compared to the other approaches mentioned. Undergraduates can choose to be part of residence halls, residential communities, or residential colleges.

Residence halls work like independent housing on Duke’s West Campus. Residential communities are similar to residential halls but they stress faculty engagement by Matthew T. King is a Trinity senior and featuring faculty-in-residence like Duke’s first-year housing. Northwestern’s residential Spencer Kaplan is a Trinity first-year. colleges are typically themed. Faculty related

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DOCTORS FROM PAGE 1 other than English.

Beatriz Morris, assistant professor of pediatrics, has practiced at the Duke Health Center at Southpoint for more than two decades. Born in Cuba, raised in the United States and educated in Puerto Rico, she has been using Spanish with her patients and their families “since day one.”

“The Hispanic population in Durham has tripled, maybe quadrupled since I came in 1995,” she said. “Most of it had consisted of people from Mexico. What’s changed in the past five years is that now I’m seeing a great number of Central Americans, people from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, countries where before we never would we see anyone.”

Until recently, Duke pediatricians who weren’t bilingual like Morris only had one option for communicating with Spanish-speaking patients—phone translators. Now, at certain locations, there are in-person translators who can mediate the interaction between patient and provider.

“We have various people who are physically in the clinic available to translate,” Morris said. “It has been helpful because some people are fairly new to the area and feel more comfortable speaking with someone in their native language.

And especially when it comes to your health, you want to make sure you get things right.”

Morris isn’t Duke’s only bilingual practitioner. She named four colleagues in pediatrics who as also bilingual in English and Spanish. She said she also regularly discovers doctors and residents who can speak a second language. As it turns out, Spanish isn’t the only one they might need.

“We see people who are Arabic-speaking, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Italian, French and so on,” she said. “We see patients who speak dialects from India like Telugu and Tamil. We don’t necessarily have people who can translate all those languages.”

One of the few practitioners who can is Agnes Chao, a third-year resident in pediatrics who has lived, studied and worked between the United States, Hong Kong and Singapore. She said she speaks English, Mandarin and some Cantonese.

“I get super excited when I get families that are not bilingual and would benefit from somebody who speaks Mandarin,” Chao said.

However, Chao noted that she felt Mandarin may not be the “most necessary language” to know due to the comparatively large quantity of Spanish-speaking patients.

When asked what more Duke could do to meet the growing number of non-English-speaking patients passing

through its health system, Morris suggested a more longterm, invested approach than what has been implemented thus far.

“We’re spending so much money trying to make sure patients understand, making sure everything’s translated to the other language,” Morris said. “We’re a university. How about teaching the patient population to speak the language?”

Though she qualified that this may not be feasible, Morris pointed out the autonomy and knowledge of cultural differences patients would gain from Dukeprovided English lessons. In a similar vein, Chao proposed Duke-administered Spanish lessons for its practitioners as a way to further narrow the language gap Duke has already begun to bridge.

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“We want to take the best of Duke, get collaborators together that might not have collaborated, and put those brilliant minds together,” Simmons said.

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