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Han Kang | The Chronicle Foul trouble in the frontcourt and poor execution down the stretch plagued No. 9 Duke, which suffered its first ACC loss Wednesday at Clemson. See story on page 11.

Duke researchers skeptical about gun control changes Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle Although likely to survive legal challenges, President Barack Obama’s recent executive actions on gun control are also unlikely to produce dramatic change, experts at Duke say. Earlier this month, Obama unveiled new executive actions to help curb gun violence—the most controversial of which clarified what it means to be “engaged in the business” of selling firearms. Existing law requires all gun “dealers” to be federally licensed and to run background checks on all transactions and potentially face prosecution for failing to do so. Obama said that people selling firearms online or at gun shows have not always—but should be—required to complete the background checks found in traditional gun stores. “If you’re doing exactly what Joe’s gun shop

is doing, you just don’t have a physical store, you probably should be licensed,” said Kristin Anne Goss, associate professor of public policy and political science, who studies the politics of the gun control movement. The vast majority of unlicensed private sellers will probably not be required to get licensed under these new guidelines, Goss noted. People selling guns to neighbors one-time-only would not be affected, and the guidance instead addresses those who regularly sell firearms in bulk at gun shows, who Obama said are often not federally licensed. “He didn’t close the loophole,” Goss said. “We think that the vast majority of private sellers are not effectively gun dealers. They’re really just individuals selling guns to their neighbors, and they wouldn’t meet the criteria.” Obama also announced renewed efforts to tackle mental health issues, explore smart gun technology and requested further funding from Congress for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Are Obama’s actions constitutional? Republican presidential candidates lashed out following Obama’s announcement. A campaign website for Senator Ted Cruz declared, “Obama wants your guns,” and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush accused Obama of “seizing on every opportunity to advance a gungrabbing agenda.” Such rhetoric is blown out of proportion, said Philip Cook, ITT/Terry Sanford professor of public policy. He added that Obama’s actions expanding background checks are unlikely to make it difficult for the “good people” to acquire guns. “What Obama is talking about is so modest that only children, convicted felons and people who have been sent to a mental institution by court order are basically going to be blocked from getting a gun,” Cook said. See GUN CONTROL on Page 16

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Although the holidays may be over, one Duke senior recently received an additional gift. Emma Campbell-Mohn was recently selected as an inaugural Schwarzman Scholar, an honor which will allow her to study for one year at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The scholarship provides students with the opportunity to improve their leadership skills by pursuing a master’s degree in public policy, economics or international studies. “I was shocked and incredibly excited,” she said. “I’m very grateful to the Duke community for these past four years.” Campbell-Mohn—who is double-majoring in political science and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, with a minor in history—was See CAMPBELL-MOHN on Page 16

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Experts gather to critique coverage of recent terror attacks Sarah Kerman The Chronicle Several academics gathered at Duke Wednesday afternoon to dismantle popular preconceptions about recent global terrorist attacks. The discussion—which was sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Duke Islamic Studies Center and the Forum for Scholars and Publics— featured three panelists with different regions of expertise. Anne-Gaelle Saliot, assistant professor of 20th century French literature and film, explained the local context of the Paris attacks, while Zeina Halabi, assistant professor of Arabic literature and culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, focused on the Beirut attacks. Amadou Fofana, associate professor of French at Willamette University and a visiting faculty fellow at Duke, spoke about recent terror events in Mali. Halabi criticized the way victims of terrorist attacks in the Arab world are presented in Western media. “The victims of the Paris attacks, the first thing we heard was everything about their individuality, we heard about their tastes, the way they look,” she said. “The first thing we heard about foreign victims of other attacks in Baghdad or Beirut or elsewhere in the Arab world was about them being political subjects.” She said that this different treatment allowed for a kind of global mourning in the wake of the Paris attacks that did not occur following the attack in Beirut. The assault on Paris, carried out in a series of attacks by members of the Islamic State on the evening of Nov. 13,

Matthew Rock | The Chronicle Multiple experts discussed the recent attacks in Paris, Beirut and Mali as well as the way they were presented by the media Wednesday.

left 130 dead and more than 350 injured. A double suicide bombing in Beirut on Nov. 12 killed between 37 and 43 people—estimates range—but received substantively less media coverage. Halabi noted that similar attacks in Beirut have occurred for years, but that the November attack marked the first time the Islamic State group had claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the city. The panel also debated the extent

to which the Islamic State group can be considered a state. Each of the members said the question of whether the organization can be called a state is complex because the people who live in the areas controlled by the Islamic State group do not necessarily perceive it as a legitimate authority. “It’s very striking because you are facing an organization that would like to see itself as a state,” Halabi said. “It has issued coins, it has issued all sorts of paraphernalia that have to do with

supporting the idea of the state.” Halabi noted that despite factors that would support its classification as a state, there are people in areas controlled by the Islamic State group who do not give it any legitimacy. Fofana added that situation with the Islamic State group is atypical because groups usually have a geographic existence before they have a state, rather the reverse. His comments focused on a lack of economic and political development as links to terrorist attacks. When presented with the topic of whether economic issues are a larger factor than religious ideology in influencing global terrorism, the panelists differed in their perspectives. Fofana argued that the context of Mali—where Islamist militants killed at least 21 people in a raid on a hotel in Mali’s capital Nov. 20—is primarily political and economic, with factors that complicate the issues. Halabi and Sailot pointed to a combination of ideological and political factors as primary influencers of terrorism. “Making sure the youth are not exposed to the ideologies of these extremist groups is a huge task,” Fofana said, noting the importance of education to combat extremist ideologies. Senior Daniel Li noted that he walked away from the talk with a better understanding of the complex origins of these ideologies. “Even though now recent acts of terror are making bigger waves in the news, these are not unique events for many and are often deeply linked to lengthy cultural histories,” Li wrote in an email.

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Social ventures for Madagascar proposed at Winter Forum Rachel Sereix The Chronicle Students at this year’s Winter Forum experimented with solutions to various problems hindering Madagascar’s development. This year’s Winter Forum, which was held at the Fuqua School of Business and ended Tuesday, challenged students to solve economic, social and environmental problems currently confronting the country of Madagascar. Teams of participants met with mentors, heard from guest speakers and worked to develop innovative solutions during the forum. Freshmen Pauline Grieb and Eudora Miao, sophomore Sebastian Lin, junior Jordan Lucore and senior Ted Yavuzkurt won the competition for their proposed social enterprise Mamboly, which would offer children secondary school scholarships to an agricultural science school which the team designed. While the team first considered technical solutions to food security issues, the group realized that technology was not the real problem and that other solutions were necessary. “We realized that if we didn’t address communication barriers it wouldn’t matter how amazing of a gadget we invented,” Yavuzkurt said. “Our ‘innovation’ would collect dust if we didn’t solve the communication problem. From there, we decided that educating children was a better tactic than education adults.” The agricultural science, or agronomy, school would focus on two agricultural practices—square foot farming and ricefish culture. These practices would be a departure from the practice of slash and burn agriculture, known as tavy, which the team recognized as a source of immense

biodiversity loss. “We identified the reality that it is not easy or right to barge in and tell Malagasy farmers, who have been using the same agricultural techniques for centuries, to do it ‘our way,’” Grieb noted. “We realized that the key was to engage the children, as well as making the school into an open environment which villagers can actively be engaged in.” The program would also compensate the children’s families both financially as well as agriculturally and would emphasize the development of field skills among the younger generation. “Students will work on actual degraded land, bringing it back to productive use with the help of their teachers and new farming practices,” Yavuzkurt said. “In the process, their families and the wider community will see that these practices are safe and effective, and will be more willing to adopt them.” The team received a $1,000 prize, which Grieb said could help them to implement their proposal. Another team, named MedEx, won the Audience Choice Award for the team’s proposal to use drones for delivering essential medicines to economically and geographically barren regions of Madagascar. The team, consisting of freshmen Shannon Malloy and sophomores Julia Myhre, Helen Lu and John Lu, wanted to address problems of access to medicine after learning about the scarcity of donated medications among the poor in Madagascar. While these medications are free when donated by pharmaceutical companies such as Merck and Bayer, the people who need the medications cannot access due to the lack of infrastructure.

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Winter Forum 2016 focused on sustainable living in Madagascar and concluded Tuesday at the Fuqua School of Business.

“Only 12 percent of the ‘roads’ are paved. Yet 80 percent of the people live in rural communities that take hours upon hours to reach,” John Lu said. “We wanted to bypass the poor infrastructure and use the open skies. Through drones, we can connect rural communities with disease and urban areas that have medicine.” The team researched drones that have carrying capacities of more than 20 pounds and can fly nearly 60 kilometers, making them ideal for this particular challenge. Lu noted that each team member’s previous

experience with the different entrepreneurial, scientific and creative tasks helped developed the initiative. He added that their project won’t end at the Winter Forum. “Our team plans on moving forward with our idea, using the funds from Winter Forum to fund our research into making our program a reality,” Malloy added. “It will require collaboration among NGOs and even corporate sponsors like Amazon currently employing drone technology. But for MedEx, the sky is not the limit; it is simply the beginning.”

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Why ARE all these houses painted green? Georgia Parke .............. i cry evry time elizabeth Djinis ......... art is weird man Dillon Fernando ........what are colors? ian jaffe............too busy on Facebook jesus Hidalgo..................can i go yet? natalie Huffman ...... twitter isn’t green Tom Vosburgh ......shooters isn’t green

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The people I communicate the most with via text are the ones with whom I trade the fewest sensical words. Each message bubble is carefully constructed so as not to include a hint of correct grammar or unironic jargon, with subjects made unnecessarily plural and l33t speak preferable to anything else. My friends are my friends because we speak the same butchered language and make a habit of verb-ing nouns. Cloaked in blankets we talk about what kind of bats we are and pick an accent for the day. We have forgotten most of our French. I made one such friend listen to the Vampire Weekend song “M79,” and her reaction was that the band appeared to have a habit of just randomly combining words that sound good—“No excuse to be so callous / Dress yourself in bleeding madras / Charm your way across the Kyber Pass.” It was a perfect response ost of the nonverbal communication between the two of us has taken the same form—words that sound funny are prioritized over the practical explication of meaning. Is that not writing, though? Is that not music? Things that seem to bounce nicely to the beat, things whose meaning is nebulous enough that you can either assume it’s nonsense, or give the benefit of the doubt that some meaning behind it exists because somebody wrote it while thinking with his brain and one thought had to move into another and create this song. The latter method is what I think is the key to getting something out of any kind of artistry—you have to assume that there is something you are not getting right away, that what appears to you as nonsense must have a sensical

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explanation behind its front. These intentionally incorrect messages and abstract conversations of ours are the best and most valuable way my closest friends and I can get our thoughts across to each other. It’s the same with how people take away interpretations of music and writing and art that appear devoid of meaning to some but make perfect sense to them. You just have to find your own flavor of nonsense, and then it becomes something clear. Abstractions in poetry (and some prose) bring out this quality of art to shapeshift from confusion

editor’s note to understandable forms. When workshopping other students’ work in creative writing classes, watching the critiquers is like seeing a child sound out a quadrisyllabic mess of a word. They take one quality of a written piece at a time—first the structure, then the meter, the rhyme, repetitive vocabulary, punctuation, and finally the words and phrases themselves, sounding out a verse until the writer’s intentions meekly emerge. The process is taking what should be confusing and stripping it down and piecing it back together until you can see something. Nonsense, like art, is a lesson in long-term gratification.

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It doesn’t mean a thing until it does. Even when we are very young we can witness humor found in bending rules of speech and humor. I remember in fourth grade spending a learning unit on state and local history, and how our Vermont county of Lamoille was named on a spelling error, the French “Lamoitte” mischaracterized slightly by a hand who didn’t cross the Ts. How funny, how acceptable—decades of geography based on a mistake. Even “The Office”’s B.J. Novak just gave this next generation his best-selling Book With No Pictures, indulging just in the flexible joys of rhythm and sound. Nonsense is a lesson in long-term gratification, and so it is quite a helpful thing to think of when feeling stuck or lost or that life is not explaining itself very well. In some ways, it can be good to bask in the confusion and enjoy not knowing what it all means—whether that’s a work of art or future days ahead. This, right now, is the beginning of a brand new year and there are a great many things around me that haven’t sorted themselves out. I think I will wait, and stare at the sculpted verse of this year, until it speaks to me in my own tongue. —Georgia Parke

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VMS course exposes students to social art, and helps them create it Dillon Fernando The Chronicle

When most people think about classic examples of art, Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” poised on a wall in the Louvre or Michelangelo’s “David” standing proudly in Florence probably come to mind. What most people might not consider is the artistic merit and beauty that can be expressed through some of the daily activities and cultural and social movements in our everyday lives. This semester, Pedro Lasch, associate research professor of art, art history and visual studies, offers a class entitled “Social Art Practice and Socially Engaged Humanities,” which he hopes will encourage students to use art to actively interact with our society’s cultural and political practices. Lasch has developed a passion for creating contemporary and interdisciplinary art with a social message. This latest course combines aspects from the more traditional art classes he has taught, like drawing and painting, with his advanced art seminars. He wants students to realize that art does not necessarily need to take the form of an object like a painting or a drawing to comment on the world.

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“In this class, we want to ask ourselves… why can’t art be something that people engage with or perceive?” Lasch said. “If an artist does something that changes the way in which people relate to each other, you may still use an object to help produce that, but why can’t we call that shift and new form of perception or social relations the artwork in itself?” The structure of the course poses these questions through a fusion of flipped instruction

and in-class activities. The course lectures and readings will be primarily online using course materials from a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that Lasch created in collaboration with the art institution Creative Time. The MOOC includes video lectures conducted by Lasch and 29 guest lecturers that will complement the in-class discussions and student projects. Lasch has planned activities that allow students to use the theories the will learn

through the lecture and apply it to art created during class time. “Students will be actively engaging with the social message by doing them, not just by reading about them,” Lasch said. Attracting a wide range of students from various disciplines in the arts, humanities and academic research will allow the course to be a hub for artistic collaboration, Lasch hopes. He said he finds that creative and collaborative spaces are crucial for fostering a community that exchanges ideas from different perspectives and creates art reflecting relevant cultural and political sentiments. “Say you’re a political science student who cares about border culture…and you have this idea late at night to have some guy fly over the border as a political act,” Lasch said. “But if you don’t know that somebody already did this actually fifteen years ago you may just think, well that’s just a crazy idea.” At times, the obscure nature of some social art has the potential to be inscrutable—art is not always made to be understood or explicitly stated. “Other works can be about being felt, or questioning something, or simply interesting,” Lasch said. “There are other areas of art that try to reach for other areas of human experience-not just rationality.”

Pinhook fundraises through community to ensure survival Elizabeth Djinis The Chronicle Durham staple and concert venue The Pinhook celebrated its seventh birthday Dec. 11, firmly rooting the bar and entertainment space as a cherished spot in the community. But the milestone masked a sadder truth—the bar’s owner of three years, Kym Register, had recently learned that she owed over $80,000 in taxes that had been overlooked in bookkeeping under a previous owner. She was floored. “It was an honest mistake,” Register said, but she worried about how she would find the money. Her friends and staff urged her to start a Fundly page, a site that facilitates crowd-

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sourced donations. Register was initially against it, but her emotions shifted at the incredible response from the public. “For me, this is not the first route I would have gone,” Register said. “I was definitely surprised at the response and completely humbled by it.” As of Jan. 13, Register has already raised $30,993, and the Fundly has 24 days left. The donation page’s description describes The Pinhook’s storied history, from its 2008 beginnings spawned from the Bull City Headquarters to Register’s eventual total ownership of the bar in 2012. In that time, the venue has become a place for the Duke and Durham community to enjoy. “We’ve always just been a really open door,” Register said. “We’ve never tried to be a college bar or any kind of specific bar other

than a music venue.” She added that, while The Pinhook doesn’t specifically serve Duke, they encourage Duke students to come to the music venue as well. And since music plays such a large role in the spot’s daily operations, Register knew a concert would be a great way to raise money. Her friends volunteered to help, planning a concert series to take place at The Pinhook Jan. 27, 28 and Feb. 3 and 4. Tickets are $25 per night and $100 for a four-day pass. Register was shocked when her musician friends offered to play a concert for free. However, the acts of kindness have not been limited to musicians—community businesses have reached out to offer their services as well. “I didn’t want to ask my friends for favors, but I didn’t have to,” Register said.

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Tigers pounce in second half as Blue Devil foul trouble proves costly Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle GREENVILLE, S.C.—After hitting six 3-pointers through the first 13 minutes of the game and jumping out to a 12-point lead, the Blue Devils appeared to be on their way to another easy victory. Not so fast. Junior Matt Jones’ potential game-tying 3-pointer fell well short of the basket and Clemson put the game away from the freethrow line, taking down No. 9 Duke 68-63 Wednesday night at Bon Secours Wellness Arena. After averaging 20 made free-throw attempts per game entering the contest, the Blue Devils failed to connect from the charity stripe until nearly six minutes remained in the game, and foul trouble on the other end put Duke at a disadvantage defensively with its limited depth. “We let our foot off the pedal as a whole,” forward Brandon Ingram said. “We didn’t execute well and in the second half we had a chance to win, a chance to tie at the line and just didn’t knock it down. We just have to get back and play better.” Duke (14-3, 3-1 in the ACC) finished just 2-of-7 from the line on a night when the team’s shaky depth and inexperience was exposed. Ingram picked up his third foul with just 1.6 seconds remaining in the first half, forcing Duke to play cautiously for the final 20 minutes, including implementing varying zone looks. Clemson (11-6, 4-1) capitalized by spreading Duke out and finding open shooters along the perimeter. Ingram finished

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3-point play by Donte Grantham that cut the lead to 48-47. “We could’ve made a lot smarter plays,” Allen said. “A lot of the mistakes we made out there were young mistakes. That’s no excuse for us. We know the right play to make and we’ll see what we did and get better at it.” The foul on Grantham’s lay-in was the fifth on freshman Chase Jeter, who had come in to attempt to hold down the frontcourt as Duke tried to skate by without its starting big men.

GREENVILLE, S.C.—Heading into its third ACC road game, Duke had proved that it can manage without Amile Jefferson. After losing to Utah Dec. 19—just two games after Jefferson fractured his foot in practice—the Blue Devils had won five straight games and appeared to be playing some of their best basketball of the season. But the absence of Jefferson, coupled with Duke’s thin rotation, took a toll in Wednesday night’s 68-63 road loss against Clemson. Freshman Brandon Ingram—the de facto power forward in the Blue Devils’ rotation without Jefferson—picked up his fourth foul with 13:21 left, and Marshall Plumlee was whistled for his fourth with 10:30 to go, exiting with an eight-point Duke lead. By the time both re-entered the game with 9:32 left—replacing Chase Jeter, who picked up two fouls and fouled out in the 58 seconds he played in place of Plumlee— the advantage was just one. The Tigers had all the momentum, and wound up pulling away as the Blue Devils tried to mitigate any further foul trouble by playing zone. Duke survived foul trouble for Grayson Allen and Matt Jones a week ago in a win at Wake Forest, but with Ingram and Plumlee one whistle away from being disqualified, the consequences of Jefferson’s injury and

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Blue Devils back at home trying to find themselves Ben Feder The Chronicle The suddenly reeling Blue Devils will look to right the ship during a quick two-game homestand after a rough start in conference play. After a rollercoaster of a three-game stretch, No. 22 Duke returns home to take on N.C. State Thursday at 7 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium. In their first three ACC games, the Blue Devils have oscillated between managing a seasonN.C. State low 50 points on the vs. road in an ugly loss to Syracuse, erupting for No. 22 a season-high 95 points Duke against Wake Forest and THURSDAY, 7 p.m. then mustering a new Cameron Indoor Stadium season-low 48 points in a blowout loss at the hands of Louisville Sunday. “It’s a definite work in progress,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I like this team’s potential and I like the fact that they are starting

to get things—some of the intangibles in our defenses—and we’ll go from there.” Previously ranked 12th in the nation, the Blue Devils (12-5, 1-2 in the ACC) have plummeted to 22nd after the pair of road losses to the Orange and the Cardinals early in ACC play. To compound matters, redshirt freshman forward Lynée Belton is nursing a left ankle sprain, but McCallie’s squad is back in the friendly confines of Durham, where it is 8-1 this season. There is a stark difference between the Blue Devils’ performances at home and on the road, where Duke is 1-4. At Cameron Indoor Stadium, the Blue Devils have outscored their opponents by an average of 22.3 points per game, but have been crushed by an average of 13.4 points per game away from home. Much of that discrepancy can be attributed to a difference in the quality of the opponents Duke has faced at home and on the road—including losses at No. 2 South Carolina, No. 9 Kentucky and No. See W. BASKETBALL on Page 13

Ryan Hoerger | The Chronicle Redshirt sophomore Rebecca Greenwell will be looked to as a leader to help the Blue Devils steady themselves in ACC play against N.C. State Thursday.

Han Kang | The Chronicle Clemson swingman Donte Grantham played a key role in the Tigers’ win, converting a 3-point play and hitting a gametying 3-pointer.

M. BASKETBALL from page 11 But Jeter was whistled for two fouls in 30 seconds, disqualifying with no points and one rebound in four minutes. The Blue Devils then brought Ingram and Plumlee back into the game, but to no avail. With Duke forced to play zone due to foul trouble, Grantham and leading scorer Jaron Blossomgame connected on back-to-back triples to give Clemson a 53-50 lead—its first since the opening minutes of the game. After trading baskets, Tiger guard Jordan Roper hit a 3-pointer with the shot clock winding down, followed by a transition basket by Roper on the next possession to stretch Clemson’s lead to 62-55 with just 2:52 remaining. “There’s only so much lead in your pencil,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “That’s the game. You have to be really smart. It’s tough for a young team to be really smart… especially when you’re tired and you get into foul trouble. It’s difficult.” The Tigers scored the first five points of the game, but the Blue Devils responded with a burst reminiscent of their hot start against Virginia Tech Saturday. Jones, Derryck Thornton, Grayson Allen and Luke Kennard all hit threes during a 16-4 run that put Duke firmly in control of the game. But plagued by seven first-half turnovers and missed jumpers after the hot start, the Blue Devils lead began to dwindle. Having relied on the triple so much this season, Duke appeared to settle

on multiple occasions and failed to attempt a free-throw in the entire first half. Clemson entered the game as one of the nation’s least foul-prone teams, and avoided putting the Blue Devils on the line Wednesday to stay close. With Grantham getting hot for the Tigers, the home team cut the lead to two at the half despite a poor shooting performance from Blossomgame in the opening 20 minutes. “One of the things is that we don’t have as much of a chance to build on good,” Krzyzewski said. “Because they’re good, you’re exerting a lot of effort. So if you get an eight-, 10-point lead, you’re tired. And you still have to play through that. And then they came back. We don’t have any alternatives.... We have to fight through it.” Duke came up with a game-saving play just two possessions later as a block by Plumlee led to a fast break ending with a transition triple for Allen to cut the lead to a single possession. Just two possessions later, Kennard made another big defensive play, coming away with a steal that led to layup for Jones plus a foul. But the 75 percent foul-shooter missed the ensuing shot from the line that could’ve tied the game. After the teams traded buckets, the aggressive Blue Devil defense was beaten by a cutting Blossomgame, who slammed home a pass from Roper to take a three-point lead with just 13.3 ticks remaining. Jones’ potential game-tying attempt on the ensuing Blue Devil possession was not close. “The defense before that play is the main thing,” Krzyzewski said. “You have to get a stop. And then they’re going to match up with our 3-point shooters. I would have rather had the ball come to other side and have Luke or Grayson take it.” Duke is back in action Saturday afternoon against Notre Dame at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

DEPTH from page 11 head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s short bench loomed large. “There’s no answer to it. We don’t have alternatives,” Krzyzewski said of dealing with his team’s foul situation. “Those guys have to stay out of foul trouble. I’m not complaining about calls or anything like that. We just have to stay out of foul trouble. All that foul trouble and the lineups we had…you can’t practice some of the things we have to do in a game when those situations hit. It had a huge impact on the game.” As they did in their win against Virginia Tech Saturday, the Blue Devils started strong, relying on six 3-pointers to jump out to a 12-point lead. Although they failed to draw shooting fouls and did not shoot a free throw in the first half, Duke relied on penetration to kick the ball out to open shooters and find Plumlee for inside looks.

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But toward the end of the first half, the Tigers went on a 9-0 run, cutting the lead to three. To make matters worse, Ingram—who contributed 15 points in the first half—picked up his third foul with less than two seconds left before the break, joining Plumlee, Jeter and junior guard Matt Jones in early foul trouble. Krzyzewski said that the Tigers’ late first-half spurt reflected his teams’ lack of depth with Jefferson sidelined. The Blue Devils became fatigued after building a doubledigit lead and did not have enough energy to hold off Clemson’s initial comeback. “We don’t have any alternatives, unless we petition for more timeouts,” Krzyzewski said. “The Amile thing, we’ve been doing a great job, but it’s hitting us, especially when you get into this conference play. It really hits you. He’s good. It just hits you. We’ve done a really good job while he’s been away to be where we’re at.” When Duke began the second half, the fouls continued to mount and quickly affected the team’s play on both ends of the court. Soon after Ingram picked up his fourth foul—which forced him to leave the floor for more than four minutes—Jones collected his third foul and Jeter fouled out. The pair of available Blue Devil big men on the bench—redshirt sophomore Sean Obi and freshman Antonio Vrankovic—continued to sit, as Ingram and Plumlee returned to try to close out the game. The foul trouble impacted Duke’s willingness to attack the basket. The Blue Devils continued to struggle to create contact, and when they did reach the foul line, they missed their free throws, finishing 2-of-7 from the charity stripe. When Ingram returned, he only took one shot in the final nine minutes. “I came out with my fourth foul and I was less aggressive going to the basket,” Ingram said. “[The fouls] slowed us down. We weren’t playing smart. I was a little tentative. It’s a learning experience.” When Plumlee picked up his fourth foul, Duke’s ability to protect the basket on the defensive end also suffered. The Tigers relied on back-cuts and the dribble-drive to penetrate the interior and kick the ball out to open shooters along the wing. The Blue Devils’ switch to a zone with Ingram defending at the top of the key did not solve the defensive woes, as the Tigers quickly converted consecutive 3-pointers against the zone. With Jefferson expected to be out for an extended period of time, the Blue Devils have no choice but to push forward with their thin lineup as they face the meat of their conference schedule. “We’re not a great team. We’re a good team. And we don’t have subs,” Krzyzewski said. “We have to fight through it.”

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W. BASKETBALL from page 11 23 Louisville—but that is not the full problem. The Blue Devils have not been able to find a rhythm on the offensive end in road gyms this season, dishing out 6.3 fewer assists and coughing up 4.3 more turnovers per game on the road. For a talented yet largely inexperienced squad, Duke will need to look to sharpshooter Rebecca Greenwell to rediscover the team’s momentum during the two-game homestand. Greenwell registered 16 points in the team’s contest against N.C. State (12-5, 3-1) last season—a 72-59 loss in Raleigh. But now, the redshirt sophomore has shifted positions for the Blue Devils. Once a guard who often brought the ball across midcourt, she is now featured primarily as a shooting guard. The change has paid off for McCallie’s squad, as Greenwell is averaging 18.2 points and 6.6 rebounds per game at home this season. The Owensboro, Ky., native has also been trusted to shut down the opponent’s top scorers. Against the Wolfpack, Greenwell will draw tough assignments once again within Duke’s traditional matchup zone. Sophomore forward Jennifer Mathurin is N.C. State’s top frontcourt threat with 11.4 points per game, joining the two-headed monster in the Wolfpack’s backcourt—Dominique Wilson and Miah Spencer—as double-figure scorers. Wilson and Spencer hurt the Blue Devils all afternoon a season ago, combining for 41 points in N.C. State’s upset victory. “Every game is great experience for us, I’m excited to play N.C. State,” McCallie said. “They’ve got terrific outside shooters, and they’re a very, very good team, but they’re the exact team we want to play because communication is going to be a huge key.... It’s a tough game, but it’s a great game for us.sudoku_511B If Duke can get its offense back on track early,

it may be tough for the Wolfpack to stay close, because the Blue Devil defense is also markedly better at home. Duke holds opponents to 11.5 fewer points per game and registers both more steals and blocks at Cameron Indoor Stadium. By shutting down Wilson and Spencer, a strong defensive performance against N.C. State could go a long way toward rediscovering the keys to the Blue Devils’ early-season success. Even though the Blue Devils have been much better at creating turnovers at home, they will not come easily with Wilson and Spencer taking care of the ball-handling duties for the Wolfpack. Last season, the duo coughed up only two turnovers against Duke, and with an added year of experience, it can only get harder for the young Duke guards to force N.C. State to make bad decisions on the offensive end of the court. “You have to be in their face, you have to be there before the catch because they are both excellent 3-point shooters and then you have to make the one-on-one stop,” McCallie said. “It’s a team defense thing.”

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whether we want to acknowledge it or not. To assuage our own feelings of self-worth or to satisfy an insecure need to establish a sense of order, we prefer to put people (including ourselves) in little boxes and label them. But in truth, all people are both greater and lesser, stronger and weaker than we think. We are a microcosm of the world in its totality. Good and bad, perhaps, but then again, so much more. Let’s respect that and not be presumptuous in thinking we know more than we actually do about anyone. Let’s look each other in the face with wonder and a mind that is open to all the possibilities. And when the moment has passed, let it go. The person you encounter the next time, whether it be your spouse, child, parent, friend or acquaintance, may have grown into someone else altogether, and wouldn’t that be a wonderful thing? Diana Garcia T ‘94

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Having made the journey back to Duke for the first time since 1986, I took my son to see a plaque in the Bryan Center that had several names on it, among them my late father. The plaque is no longer there, replaced by The Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity. Across the hall, an art exhibit (which was closed for winter break) asked, among other things, what is given up when one is out of the closet. I understand there is a generational over-acceptance of sexual and gender issues, but it breaks my heart that Duke students cannot think past a reflexive change in our society with clearheaded reason. As much as it will hurt those who have a Pavlovian support for anything involving homosexual activity, the hard truth is that such activity means a life expectancy of 8-20 years less than that of one who avoids such activity. If you carry in you a sadness for those gay persons who have to face this unfortunate fact in their lives, you should be commended for your humanity. If you support the advancement of these activities and the uplifting tone of their selfappointed rainbow flag, I have to wonder about

your real concern for humanity and your ability to rationally think through these issues. I look at that flag, and I hurt for those who suffer. However, when I see the flag, I also think about people that would promote such a thing and see a follow-the-herd mentality that should not exist in the hallowed halls of Duke University. On a related note, the trans-gender movement is so focused on growth that it aggressively ignores contravening research such as the findings of Paul McHugh, the former Psychiatrist in Chief at Johns Hopkins. He reaches the conclusion that biological sex change is impossible and such efforts only serve to promote mental illness. If I were gay or transgendered, and certainly before the University decides to institutionally support homosexuality and gender changes, I would want to know all of the relevant consequences in order to make an informed decision. That is what a Duke Student, and Duke University, should do.

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s the internet has already told us, Donald Trump’s proposal for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” is outrageous. But nonetheless, this new proposal to combat ISIS raises very pertinent questions: “What are we really at war against, and how do we fight it?” Trump’s call to action suggests that

his past August, I rummaged through a box of childhood keepsakes to find a crumpled envelope containing a letter I had written the United States. Given that Europe in sixth grade to my future self. In copious had been torn apart by religious wars detail, I had described the friends, and that England had undergone great hobbies and goals I hoped to achieve by turmoil with religion as the state’s high school graduation. I was amused business, our founders positioned the to discover my interests have scarcely U.S. government to facilitate a religiously changed; organically, I have checked pluralistic society. Accordingly, the First many aspirations off the list. Last on this Amendment reads, “Congress shall make list was scribbled, “I hope you run a half no law respecting an establishment of marathon.” I paused. This was a task I had

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America is at war with a religion (or at least part of it) and that the temporary solution is to act as if America is at war with all of it. The difficulty in condemning Trump’s words is that there are indeed elements of truth here; therefore, we shouldn’t dismiss Trump’s statements either as backwards or as clinical cases of “Islamophobia” and “xenophobia.” Although we may hear and use these label all the time, they are morally evasive and don’t communicate what precisely is wrong with Trump’s proposal. It is also not helpful to say that acting out of fear is exactly what ISIS wants us to do because, even if that assertion is true, the opposite of what our enemy wishes isn’t always what we should do. For instance, if ISIS doesn’t want us to use nuclear weaponry against them, it doesn’t mean that we ought to. Also, to fear is not always wrong; the question we need to ask is whether the proposed object of fear is worthy of it. We need to parse carefully. The first thing we certainly know is that the radical philosophy and actions of ISIS do not represent all Muslims nor speak for all of practicing Islam. As a survey by the Pew Research Center indicates, the proportion of Muslims who report having a positive view of ISIS is not insignificant but definitely a minority. Yet at the same time, to claim that the driving philosophy of ISIS is merely an ideology that is a warped offshoot from Islam is to not recognize ISIS’s specific theological grounding. While an ideology can be any set of ideals and principles that makes truth claims, a theology is an ideology that makes the deity(s) the center of reality and truth. And while the less-desirable parts of a culture can often be adjusted to fit a modern agenda, theological claims are absolute truth claims, which can be either right or wrong but not outdated. ISIS’s propaganda magazine, “Dabiq,” which is a fascinating read, indicates an aspiration and motivation that is highly theological. Dabiq tries to justify its vision for politics and society through scores of references to the Qur’an (Allah’s Word and Islam’s highest authority) and citations of Hadith (sayings attributed to the Islamic prophet, Muhammed). Although the majority of the Islamic community rejects the darker and violent interpretations that drive ISIS’s theology, this does not change the fact that our enemy, ISIS, is a theologicallydriven enemy. The radical theology that drives ISIS also plays a role in other terror groups, such as Boko Haram, AlQuaeda, Al-Shabab and the Taliban to name a few. How does one fight a theological enemy? Not with the Constitution of

religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Because the Constitution was designed to prevent governmental tyranny, it largely does not feature safeguards against either theological threats or moral implosions. To reckon with ISIS, the American people must recognize two things: first that we wage war against a theological (not merely ideological) enemy and, second, that pure appeals to patriotic Americanism alone cannot win because the roots are shallow. Closing ourselves off from the rest of the world, as Trump suggests, would be a crude attempt to protect ourselves through isolation. His strategy could temporarily stave off defeat but would not at all address the root of the problem. Our Constitution, our government, our laws and our admiration for them cannot beat or solve the theology that drives ISIS. Yet this is a battle that must be fought. In the past, the American people have risen up to challenge great moral evils and injustices, such as slavery and racial inequality. The phrase they have often wielded is an opening statement in The Declaration of Independence, which reads, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This is a theological statement, which asserts that people are not merely existing, but are created equal; thus they must have inherent sacred worth, which makes certain rights inalienable. What is so incredibly powerful about this line in the Declaration is its appeal, which is not to a law created by humans, but to the divine truth of the transcendent natural law. So far, we have fought against ISIS and other like terrorists at the abstract level by containment. We have tried to identify the “radicalized,” track them and keep them out of America. Trump’s proposals and our efforts so far do not address the real problem. If we are to fight against ISIS at its theological base, we must switch to an offense that targets, cuts through and solves ISIS’s theological stronghold. We the people must assume responsibility and take the culture war into our own hands rather than offloading it to America’s immigration policies. We must bring to the battlefront transcendent weapons that existed long before America ever did. For there is a deeper magic, a light, that is more powerful than anything of this world. What America and our whole world needs is Truth that overcomes Darkness.

not attempted. I liked to run but had always played sports that required a different skillset. Long distance could be a new challenge. I looked up training programs online and investigated which races would take place near Duke in the fall. It began as a vague, lofty goal rather than a concrete commitment. Back at school, I found time to slip a few miles in each day, gradually building up my stamina. These scheduled runs became something I looked forward to as Duke life sped up, growing busier and increasingly taxing. I set out alone, blasted my music and left the world behind. As my footsteps hit the pavement, it took awhile to let my mind unravel. I was no longer well versed in the ability to intentionally lose focus and relax; by sophomore year, I felt like a machine programmed for efficiency. As the pace of my heart rate increased, the pace of my brain slowed down. Those were the moments when I felt present and engulfed in one task. I cherished them more and more. At first, my feet dictated my pace. I sought to avoid goal setting because I didn’t want my enjoyment of this independent pursuit to become comparative or contingent on performing well. I experience enough assessment each day; in this space, I tried to turn it off. I want to enjoy things I love for the process and not just the outcome, but I fear forgetting how to do so. At times, sticking to this mindset was difficult. The stronger I became, the more I began to develop expectations for myself. Deliberately pushing them aside felt strange. Three weeks before the race, my ankle and shins started to give out on me. The doctor advised ignoring my last planned long runs and resting in order to let the tendonitis subside in time for the half marathon. Inactivity made me antsy and idle. Breaking from the schedule in the final stretch felt unsettling, especially because long distance runners must taper during the last week of training, which involves dramatically decreasing activity to be in peak condition on race day.This meant my longest run would be a month before the actual race day, and I feared being unprepared. I sought the advice of a family friend who was an experienced marathon runner. He told me that, at this point, my training was finished. In an endurance sport, the mind is the true athlete. Being ready to cross the finish line would depend on remaining confident in my self-efficacy rather than further improving physical fitness. Tapering presents a counterintuitive mental challenge because it involves directly rejecting the method of preparation Addison Merryman is a Trinity junior. drilled into us as students, athletes and ambitious individuals in today’s pressureHis column runs on alternate Thursdays.

driven, outcome-orientedworld. We want to train as hard as possible right up to the big game, sprint when the whistle blows and study incessantly through the final minutes until the exam. To deliberately pull back and do less—and to remain certain this won’t detract from a strong performance—feels backwards, foreign to the way we college students are programmed to operate. Students at Duke and other universities moveat a constant sprint. Unless I dedicate all of my time and

mental energy to preparation leading up to an exam, I can feel as though I have not tried hard enough.This manic overpreparation can drive me into an anxious state where I cannot trust my knowledge or competence until the test is over, and I cannot expect myself to do more. Once I think I can accomplish something, I expect the best performance of which I am capable in every class, club or sport— with little forgiveness if I fall short of the bar I set. However, transitioning from this all-or-nothing mindset is critical to sustainable physical and mental health. Such attitudes contribute to the rates of anxiety and depression spiraling at elite institutions all over the country. Employing restraint becomes associated with laziness when in fact it is needed for health, wellness and performance. When the gunshot cracked on race day, I resisted the urge to set out fast despite how energized I felt. As others passed, my competitive urge kicked in, but I reminded myself slow and steady would win the day. I forced myself to stay at a consistent pace. Seven miles in, I realized if I hustled, I had a chance at breaking two hours. Then, I allowed myself to push; I sped up with each remaining mile, finishing with seconds to spare under two hours. I could utilize this reserved energy only because I had initially restrained every impulse that shouted at me to go faster. Ironically, consistency and discipline allowed me to accelerate at the end. When a doctor told me to rest, I stopped running. When a respected adult told me I would be ready to finish, eventually I believed him. When every running article emphasized not setting out too fast at the beginning of a race, I acquiesced. In these situations, I could justify holding back although doing so felt uncomfortable and frustrating. It takes someone outside of my world—my mind, my friends and my Duke bubble— to remind me to slow down. I was forced to approach preparation in a different way and only listened because I physically needed to—but it worked. Most of the time, our lives as college students lack this type of external monitor. In the Duke bubble, no one tells us how to slow down. How do we develop an aptitude for endurance rather than instant gratification? How do we force ourselves to scale back if we have not broken yet and, more importantly, learn to become comfortable doing so? Who, and what, sets these boundaries? And what is the penalty for a community of students who think they are invincible and continue to exert 100 percent of their energy with no restrictions? Carly Stern is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays.

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GUN CONTROL from page 1 Many Republican presidential candidates have decried these actions as unconstitutional, either because of the Second Amendment or because they exceed the President’s constitutional executive authority. After the 2008 Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller, which guaranteed an individual right to keep and bear arms, courts have upheld the vast majority of gun control laws challenged as violations of the Second Amendment, noted Joseph Blocher, professor of law. The laws that have been struck down have been especially stringent outliers such as handgun bans and prohibitions on public carrying, he explained, adding that the Supreme Court’s opinion in Heller explicitly allowed prohibitions on dangerous people or “dangerous and unusual weapons” and also left the door open for other regulations. “For the most part, there’s no real constitutional question that I think is going to be raised by any plausible backround check requirement, at least as far as the Second Amendment is concerned,” Blocher explained.

People prosecuted for not having a license, however, could potentially bring a statutory-based defense arguing that what Congress had in mind when they defined “engaged in the business” is inconsistent with the prosecutor’s interpretation, said professor of law Darrell Miller. Claims that Obama does not have the authority to take these actions are unlikely to succeed, noted Ernest Young, Alston and Bird professor of law. He explained that Obama is probably being more cautious with these executive actions in light of executive orders on immigration issued in 2014 that have been held up in court. Young added that although the abstract idea of the President doing gun control is concerning to some, Obama’s specific actions, which he called “small potatoes,” didn’t seem too controversial or substantive. “I tend to take a fairly narrow view of executive authority, and this just doesn’t bother me very much,” he said. Will they be effective? Although Obama’s actions may have some effect on gun violence, experts do not expect particularly dramatic results. Cook explained that many people who might be prohibited

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The Chronicle from buying a gun at a licensed gun store have been attracted to online gun sales often due to the lack of background checks— citing a study finding that one out of every 30 online gun customers were disqualified from owning a gun because they had a criminal record. Cook added that Obama’s actions will make it harder for people who cannot pass a background check to get guns in this manner. This is unlikely, however, to have a large effect on robberies or assaults, he said. Cook’s research has also shown that most violent criminals get their guns from social networks including gangs, family member and street sources. In CNN’s “Guns in America” town hall last Thursday, moderator Anderson Cooper pointed out that background checks would not prove effective against these types of transactions. There may be an effect on the underground market indirectly, however. Requiring those selling at gun shows to be licensed and conduct background checks would make it harder for people to buy guns in bulk and transport them across state lines and feed this market, Cook explained. Others have questioned expanding background checks on the grounds that they are not effective in the first place. Lars Dalseide, a public affairs media liason for the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, noted that most of the guns used in recent mass shootings, for example, were acquired after a background check was completed. As part of his proposal, Obama has encouraged states to report more information to the National Instant Background Check System so that background checks can better identify prohibited individuals. Although background checks can reduce violent crime when it comes to mental illness, for example, they often only take into account people who have been involuntarily committed to an institution, said Jeffrey Swanson, professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences. People who have not been involuntarily committed but still have mental health problems are not always caught by background checks. Swanson described the current system of background checks as both “over and under-inclusive” and that better criteria need to be developed along with expanding the checks. “Even if we enforce the laws perfectly, if we aren’t capturing the right people we’re going to come up short,” he said. Dalseide noted that prosecutions of existing gun laws have declined under Obama’s presidency, and argued that these should be enforced prior to creating new laws or rules. Young similarly noted that it is questionable whether these new executive actions will actually be accompanied by increased prosecutions of criminals violating gun laws. Goss noted that it is difficult to predict how many additional firearm transactions will actually be subject to background checks, but that these executive actions might be important in further galvanizing advocates for gun violence prevention. “I don’t think anyone can predict what we ultimately care about, which is if this will save lives,” she said. “Having the White House on board will really provide momentum for advocates and that might be, at least in the short-term, the biggest effect of this.”

CAMPBELL-MOHN from page 1 chosen as one of the 100 recipients who will comprise the first class of Schwarzman Scholars out of 3,054 applicants. She explained that she applied for the scholarship because of her interest in U.S. foreign policy. During her time at Duke, Campbell-Mohn has conducted work involving special defense strategies as well as security, peace and conflict. Her work has been featured in several articles, including “Should We Stay or Should We Go: The Shale Revolution and American Involvement in the Middle East” in the Columbia Journal of Politics and Society and “Developing a Global Fighting Force: Transitions in the People’s Liberation Army” in the Princeton Journal of East Asian Studies. She noted that these interests motivated her to apply for the scholarship. “I want to understand China’s perspective on international security issues,” she said. At Tsinghua University, Campbell-Mohn said she plans to pursue a master’s degree in global studies with a concentration in international relations. After the one-year experience, she noted that she hopes to work on U.S. security policy for the government or a think tank. She explained that the application process for the scholarship involved a series of essays and personal statements, as well as an extensive interview process. “The interview process was intimidating,” she said. “Overall, it was exhausting but also a lot of fun.” A 2015 recipient of the Alona E. Evans Prize in International Law and an American Grand Strategy Fellowship, Campbell-Mohn credited Duke with preparing her for success in the scholarship application process. On campus, she serves as the co-chair of the Council on American Grand Strategy, which organizes events featuring foreign policy experts. Campbell-Mohn noted that she is most excited about meeting the other scholars. “It looks like a great group of people,” she said.