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Duke makes headway on campus facelift $500,000 STEM grant to fund

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West Union After two and a half years of renovations, Devil’s Krafthouse—the pub in the West Union—is slated to open Feb. 29 with the rest of the West Union opening June 1, Burdick explained. The roof of West Union has been replaced and a glass curtain wall, which faces Kilgo Quadrangle, has been erected. Burdick

A new five-year, $500,000 grant to support two professorships for female faculty will further the University’s goal of attracting women to science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The grant, which was announced last week, comes from the Henry Luce Foundation’s Clare Boothe Luce Program and will fund two professorships for new female faculty in the computer science and electrical and computer engineering departments at Duke. The University has committed to spending another $2.5 million to fully fund both positions. Female undergraduates currently comprise 30.9 percent of students in the Pratt School of Engineering, and 14.4 percent of tenured and tenure-track faculty in Pratt are women, wrote George Truskey, Pratt’s interim dean, in an email. Some STEM departments within the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences have reported a similar gender gap—only 20 percent of computer science majors, for example, are women, according to a September 2014 article in The Chronicle. “University leadership, faculty and staff are deeply engaged in making Duke an even more inclusive and attractive institution for women in STEM, so receiving a Clare Boothe Luce professorship award is very exciting,”

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Samantha Neal The Chronicle Although the construction fences and scaffolding did not disappear from campus during winter break, some significant strides were made in time and will continue as the new semester unfolds. Marketplace The newly renovated Marketplace— which includes a revamped servery with an Asian Bun station and wood fired pizza ovens—officially opened last Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. “This renovation will have a huge impact on customer service and meeting real needs

of students, faculty and employees,” wrote Director of Dining Services Robert Coffey in an email. Renovations to Trinity Café were also completed during winter break, and the space now contains a performance stage and multiple televisions. In addition, the improvements to the foyer and kitchen were finished. Although the meeting rooms for FOCUS students are not yet completed, Coffey said that they should be open soon. Duke Chapel The focal point of West Campus has been under construction since graduation weekend for the Class of 2015. Sarah Burdick, director of administration and special projects, wrote in an email that the ceiling restoration has been

completed and that the roof replacement is scheduled to be completed by Feb 1. The remaining work includes reinstalling seven stained glass windows, cleaning the exterior limestone and installing new spotlights and a new sound system. The Chapel is scheduled to reopen May 1.

New partnership to provide scholarships for low-income students Staff Reports The Chronicle The University announced Wednesday that it will partner with QuestBridge, a nonprofit that helps high-achieving lowincome students earn scholarships to selective universities. QuestBridge matches students with member universities through its own application process, and students accepted to Duke via QuestBridge will receive full scholarships. With Duke’s addition, the program now includes 37 member universities including Stanford University, the University of Chicago and Yale University. Last year, 657 students received full scholarships to partner universities through this service.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions last November. The scholarship, which will Christoph Guttentag explained in a press become available for first-generation students release that Duke starting with the Class of decided to partner with 2020, will provide more QuestBridge because financial aid, a four-week olleges are of the service’s proven summer orientation uniformly impressed program and seminars record. “They have a well- with the students that specifically designed to established record of enroll through the support the students. success in providing Both the Washington opportunities to students QuestBridge process. Duke Scholars program from low-income the QuestBridge — Christoph Guttentag and families,” Guttentag said partnership add to the in the release. “Colleges University’s ongoing 1G are uniformly impressed with the students Network orientation and support program, that enroll through the QuestBridge process.” which began in 2009. Duke’s partnership with QuestBridge Students may begin applying to Duke comes after the University’s announcement through the QuestBridge process starting in of the Washington Duke Scholars program Summer 2016.

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DSG considers installation of Media pros available at security cameras on campus Career Fair for first time Gautam Hathi The Chronicle The Duke Student Government Senate discussed a resolution to support the installation of security cameras on campus near residential areas during their meeting Wednesday. The resolution, which was introduced by Senator for Services Michael Brunetti, a freshman, and Senator for Services Dylan Gambardella, a sophomore, would not actually fund the installation of cameras, but would instead support administrative efforts to do so. Several senators expressed doubts about the resolution, questioning whether the installation of cameras on campus was necessary and whether cameras would actually reduce crimes. Junior Tanner Lockhead, vice president for Durham and regional affairs, spoke against the resolution. “Crime on campus does not exist,” Lockhead said. “If we wanted [this program] to address the kind of crime that’s potentially happening on Duke’s campus, the very, very small instances of crime, this would have to be an enormous program.” Lockhead said that John Dailey, Duke University Police Department chief of police, told him that crime on campus was very low and that the issue was being taken out of proportion. According to the University’s Annual Security Report published in September 2015, there were 51 instances of burglary, eight instances of aggravated assault, nine instances of motor vehicle theft and 11 instances of rape reported on campus during 2014. Brunetti argued that students would feel safer knowing that residential areas were being

watched by cameras. He pointed to recent instances of thefts, assault and malicious fire alarms as instances of crimes that could be solved by surveillance. “Now we would actually have video evidence if that happened,” he said. “We’re trying to catch these people or deter them from committing these acts.” Lockhead argued, however, that placing security cameras on campus would make students feel more afraid rather than safer. He said that installing a large number of security cameras would create unnecessary concern about crime on campus. “Going around to every single dorm and installing a security camera doesn’t tell students that they are safer,” he said. “It tells them that they are unsafe.” Several senators also asked about how footage from the surveillance cameras would be accessed and what types of crimes would prompt police to look at surveillance footage. Brunetti said that the resolution would only support unmonitored cameras with footage that was only used when a specific crime was reported to DUPD. He also added that any footage would likely be deleted after a few days. After discussion, the Senate voted to table the issue and conduct further research into the effectiveness of surveillance cameras. In other business: DSG Treasurer Gwen Geng, a sophomore, presented a financial report to the Senate. The report showed that DSG has almost $200,000 in its surplus fund. See DSG on Page 4

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Rachel Chason The Chronicle A new section at the Career and Summer Opportunities Fair Thursday will attract students interested in the arts and media. The section in Wilson Gym, called “Media-ville,” will have representatives from 14 media companies—including BuzzFeed, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live”, ESPN and Nickelodeon—participating in Skype sessions with students from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to give informal advice on internship and job opportunities. Amy Unell, a former producer for NBC’s “Today Show” who currently works with the Office of the Vice Provost for the

Arts to promote initiatives in arts education at Duke, organized the event in collaboration with senior Estlin Haiss, Teri Mills and Anne Lyford at the Career Center, the Office of Information Technology and Scott Lindroth at Duke Arts. Unell—who also works with students interested in arts and media at the Career Center—wrote in an email that the number of Duke students interested in creative professions has been growing at “an exciting pace.” She added that she hopes Mediaville will be the beginning of an increased presence for media and arts recruiters at Duke career fairs. Laura Valk, Trinity ’13, who currently See MEDIA-VILLE on Page 4

Special to The Chronicle Thursday’s Career Fair will feature representatives from 14 media companies who will be available to Skype with students.

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Duke researchers advance CRISPR gene editing technology Abigail Xie The Chronicle A study by Duke researchers focusing on Duchenne muscular dystrophy is the latest advance in CRISPR gene editing technology, which is revolutionizing science’s approach to treating diseases. In the study, published Dec. 31 in Science, researchers were able to treat DMD in a mouse model by using adeno-associated virus to deliver the CRISPR gene editing system and correct the genetic mutation responsible for the disease. CRISPR—which stands for clustered regularlyinterspaced short palindromic repeats—has swept the scientific community in just a few short years, allowing for highly specific modifications to DNA with increasing efficiency. The Duke researchers’ success in using this technique to modify the DNA in a living adult mammal—as opposed to cultured cells in a dish—and to treat the disease is another step forward for CRISPR, one that could have implications for gene therapy in humans. “There haven’t been many papers characterizing disease-relevant genes in vivo yet, so we’re one of the first to show we can edit a disease-causing gene and restore the phenotype of that disease in vivo,” said Christopher Nelson, first author of the study and postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Charles Gersbach, associate professor of biomedical engineering. “DMD is one of the most common genetic diseases that’s both prevalent and fatal, which makes this paper a significant advance in gene therapy.” DMD is caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene, resulting in a loss of the corresponding dystrophin protein, muscle degeneration and early fatality. It affects approximately one in 5,000 male births. Nelson and Gersbach led a team that used CRISPR/Cas-9 technology to delete the

Photo Courtesy of Protein Data Bank The Cas-9 protein that is part of the CRISPR gene editing system has been called revolutionary because of its potential impacts in treating diseases.

mutation causing the disease, resulting in the recovery of the dystrophin protein and some muscle recovery in the mouse model. CRISPR/Cas-9 was first discovered as a defense mechanism that gives bacteria a form of adaptive immunity against phages and viruses. Particular DNA sequences, or spacers, found in a bacterium’s genome are derived from the DNA sequence of a virus that previously attacked it, allowing the bacterium to recognize that virus when it attacks again. The Cas enzymes are then able cut the DNA of the virus at specific locations, destroying the viral genome. In 2012, researchers uncovered the CRISPR/ Cas-9 system’s potential for targeted genome editing in organisms beyond bacteria. “When it first came out, it generated

tremendous excitement. From our perspective, it’s game-changing technology. It’s cliché to say that, but it really is,” said Daniel Dickinson, a postdoctorate researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who has worked on adapting the CRISPR/Cas-9 technology into a more effective experimental tool. “It allows us to generate changes to the genome in a matter of weeks that we could’ve never before or would’ve taken years. It completely alters the types of experiments we can do.” In the few years since that major discovery, CRISPR/Cas-9 has become an essential tool in genetic research and has been increasingly explored for potential treatment strategies in a range of diseases, including cancer and AIDS. “As somebody who’s been a scientist now for

25 years, this is one of the most—if not the most— exciting things I’ve ever witnessed,” said David Sherwood, associate professor of biology, whose lab uses CRISPR/Cas-9 to study developmental processes in the worm C. elegans. “Nobody saw it coming. This technique came from two or three labs that had no interest in human disease—they were just curious about how bacteria defend against virus attack.” Scientists still face technical and efficiency challenges in using this technique, especially concerning the delivery of the CRISPR/Cas-9 system to diseased cells and the ability to control offtarget or unintended effects on the genome. The Duke team was able to successfully package the gene editing technology for DMD into an effective delivery system, which they found in adenoassociated virus. Ethical concerns have also plagued the development of CRISPR. When Chinese scientists used CRISPR/Cas-9 to modify a gene in human embryos last year, it led to an international outcry and a debate on what boundaries were needed for the powerful technology. “We all carry deleterious mutations in our genome. It’s not unreasonable for people to say, let’s nip this in the bud and edit the defective genome in the eggs. That’s a huge ethical dilemma,” Sherwood said. Gene editing in human embryos is considered unethical by many, though research on gene editing in human patients continues. The distinction, Sherwood explained, is that modifications to the genome in an embryo would be passed along to offspring for generations to come, with potentially dangerous effects. “In correcting disease, it’s not feasible or ethical to edit embryos,” Nelson added. “Even if it was ethical, it would still be unfeasible, but correcting the adults or young children who See CRISPR on Page 4

“ Undergraduate Study Abroad in China Submit applications by March 1 for the Fall 2016 semester.

The Duke Kunshan semester features dynamic courses in Global Health, the Environment, and China Studies. International students engage in co-curricular activities that deepen the experience of Chinese culture, develop camaraderie, and build confidence. Students make a difference – both inside and outside of the classroom.

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It changes perspective to be able to see things through the eyes of others who have grown up in different cultures, with different sets of attitudes and beliefs.”

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DSG Chief of Staff Annie Adair, a junior, proposed changes to the Young Trustee bylaw to clarify that an application for Young Trustee would only be made available to applicants and that interviews of Young Trustee semifinalists would be kept confidential. Adair said that under the current bylaw, applications could be requested by any student and that a semifinalist could request their interview and then make it public. DSG Executive Vice President John Guarco, a junior, proposed amendments to the Senate bylaw that would aim to increase the accountability of senators to their constituents. The changes would, among other things, require senators to hold office hours and require them to meet with house council presidents. The Senate approved funding of camera equipment for students. The equipment will be available for use by all students who have completed a short multimedia workshop. The Senate approved SOFC legislation to fund an event on sexual health and wellness, photography for Blue Devils United’s “What I Be” program and an event sponsored by the Women’s Housing Option.

Provost Sally Kornbluth said in a Duke Today release. “The award will enable Duke to hire sought-after female candidates who will, in turn, inspire more women students to pursue careers in the sciences.” The grant builds on a previous Clare Boothe Luce grant that funded fellowships for three female graduate students at Pratt from 2006 until 2008. The CBL program, which began giving grants in 1989, has supported more than 1,900 women in STEM fields nationwide. Truskey said in the release that the new professors “will be welcomed into an environment at Duke where women are valued and supported as academics and students, and are visible and active as leaders.” He noted that junior faculty face “immense pressure” early in their careers, and that Pratt is committed to creating a culture that supports the career development of all faculty, with an emphasis on women and minorities. The grant comes midway through Kornbluth’s second year as Duke’s chief academic officer, following her eight-year tenure as the vice dean for basic science at the School of Medicine. Kornbluth, who is Duke’s first female provost, told The Chronicle in August that one of her goals for the year is to initiate a “quantitative sciences push,” which she hopes will include increasing the connection between the School of Medicine and the University’s other academic programs. She said discussions were underway with Dr. A. Eugene Washington, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, “to bridge from the campus to the medical side.”

works as a production associate for “Saturday Night Live,” said the media industry was underrepresented at Duke during her time on campus—noting that many alumni at recruiting events were focused on industries like banking and consulting. Valk said that through Unell, she connected with people in the television industry and learned about the variety of jobs available in television. She began working at SNL as a writer’s assistant in September 2013. “I’ve always been interested in connecting with other media-minded Dukies, and I’m really excited about the notion of building a strong media network at Duke,” Valk said. Christina Lan, Trinity ’15, who is now a staff writer at BuzzFeed, said she was excited about the growing media presence at Duke as well, noting that much of her networking experience at Duke was done informally. She added that students should not be intimidated by the idea of talking to a working professional, explaining that much of her focus in Skype sessions with students will be on subjects like the work environment at BuzzFeed. “I’ll tell them about things like the cardboard cutouts of celebrities we have in the office or the massive bag of candy,” she said. “Everyone is hilarious and quirky, and it’s an environment where you can learn so much, where you can feed off the energy.” The one-on-one informal Skype sessions with employers will occur on iPads that will be provided to students and will be first come, first serve. The event is open to all Duke students. A full list of the representatives who will Skype in can be found on Media-ville’s Facebook page.

added that the crane will hopefully be removed in March, depending on the weather. The plaza is currently being reconstructed and should be reopened to the public once the crane is no longer there.

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CRISPR from page 3 have presented with the disease is a much better approach.” Despite technical limitations and ethical questions, the scientific community seems to agree on the importance of the CRISPR/ Cas-9 system in both basic and translational research today. “It will and is transforming the landscape for treating human diseases, especially genetic disorders,” Sherwood said. “We’re just on the tip of the iceberg in terms of what it can be used for.”

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TuTh 3:05PM - 4:20PM Dissatisfied with modernity, road movies, novels and documentaries turn to the old ways by which our ancestors lived. They journey to remnants of indigenous communities. They look for ancient agricultural settlements. They seek out hunters and herders. What do these works of observation and imagination discover? What choices do they bring back to contemporary life? Aravindan, Satyajit Ray, Mani Kaul, Rabindranath Tagore, Premchand, Renu, among others. Satti Khanna

W 1:40PM - 4:10PM Using American and Chinese cinemas as its primary subjects of inquiries, this course provides a cross-cultural case study of the melodramatic and situates understanding of melodrama along with the larger problematics of culture and representation. Moving beyond understanding melodrama, this course invites student to partake in the practice of melodramatic mode of representation. Be it literary, audiovisual, or any other media, the melodramatic production of meaning prevails in all aspects of daily sensory and cognitive activities. Guo-Juin Hong

For additional information about AMES course offerings, please contact 919 668-2603.

Student Health and Wellness Center Construction on the 70,000 square foot Health and Wellness Center is currently in progress as the steel structure of the building has been erected. Located on the corner of Union Drive and Towerview Road, the center will unite Student Health, Counseling and Psychological Services, the Wellness Center and the Office of Case Management in a single facility. The project is expected to be completed in January 2017, a delay from its initial goal of Fall 2016. Arts Building In anticipation of inclement weather this Winter, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new arts building has been postponed. The site of the building—which will be located on the corner of Anderson Street and Campus Drive—has been cleared, and the ground is being prepared for pouring the foundation. The $50 million building, partially funded by a donation from David Rubenstein, Trinity ’70, will be home to the Dance program and the Arts and the Moving Image certificate program and will contain a 200-seat performance theater, 100-seat film theater, space for video production and a radio station. Cameron Indoor Stadium As basketball season gets into full swing, the expansion project on Cameron Indoor Stadium remains in progress. The addition to the south end of the building is under construction, but the exterior stonework is nearing completion, Burdick wrote. The project is expected to be completed this August.

W 11:45-2:15 Deepen and enrich your understanding of Islam, Muslims, and America. Scholarly exploration of Islam in America, African American Islam, interfaith and pluralism, and Islamic feminism. Films and literature about American Islam. Hands-on introduction to Muslim communities in the area—Sufi, Salafi, Sunni, Shia, and Nation of Islam. Visit local mosques, Muslim businesses, and Islamic schools, lunch included. Ellen McLarney

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AMES 285/ RELIGION 376/ CULANTH 257/ HISTORY 211/ MEDREN 269 ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS II Th 4:55PM - 7:45PM The Modern Islamic Civilizations course is open to all students, and has no prerequisites. It will cover important topics related to Islam and Muslims including: 9/11 and the Muslim responses to it, Palestine/Israel, Salafism and Wahhabism, ISIS, Syrian refugees, gender debates, Islamic reform, Iranian revolution, Islam in America, and more. No background is needed. Omid Safi

Language classes offered through AMES include the following: Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Tibetan and Turkish.

Introduction to the history and current theories of language teaching, development of an informed and reflective teaching philosophy, and experimenting with standard and up to date instructional design. Hae-Young Kim

AMES 535/ISIS 535 CHINESE MEDIA & POP CULTURE M 3:05PM - 5:35PM Current issues of contemporary Chinese media and popular culture within the context of globalization. Cultural politics, ideological discourse, and intellectual debates since gaige kaifang (reform and opening up); aspects of Chinese media and popular culture: nema, television, newspapers and magazines, the Internet, popular music, comics, cell phone text messages, and fashion. Kang Liu

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Recruitment and rush have always been my favorite and least favorite times of year on campus. Like most days at Duke, every day during recruitment feels like a year, since everyone’s running off from one flurry of social events to the next. Some of us are trying to go to our classes, but many of us are there in physical form only. Our minds are somewhere else. This rush of excitement and activity—see what I did there?— instigates two emotions in me: anticipation and anxiety. Part of me is like a kid in a candy shop: new school supplies and new friends and parties and fun, oh my?! The other part of me thinks it would be nice to spend a whole day holed up in my room watching “Grey’s Anatomy” on repeat. (Full disclosure—I might have done that last night.) Staying sane in this type of climate is almost impossible. Seriously, I’m a senior, and I’m shocked I’ve survived three years of this. So, in honor of the fact that we are all simply struggling just to stay afloat, regardless of whether we pretend to feel otherwise, I am offering a list of “thank you’s” to the people and the things that have helped me the most. First and foremost, to my mom and dad, thank you for fielding my many tearful phone calls. They range from the “I got a bad grade on a test” tears to the “I hate all my friends, and they all hate me” tears to the “my car won’t work and there are fruit flies in my apartment and I’m so stressed” tears. Whoever said college was fun forgot about all the times that college isn’t fun. To my friends, thank you for accepting my seven texts in a row,

usually including just emojis or just punctuation “!!!” or “?!?!?!,” and not judging me for my panicked 3 a.m. Facebook messages. Or if you judge me, thanks for not telling me about it at the time. Suspended judgment is a perk of a good friendship. To my car, thank you for being a safe haven in the cold, the heat and just pure exhaustion. Sometimes I feel like my car is a person. It’s the best. It holds all my trash, my bags and my old coffee containers, and it doesn’t even

editor’s note complain. That’s more than I can say for most people. To my car radio, you are my savior. Belting out tunes in my car is basically the antidote to a stressful school day or a fight with a friend. Crying in my car is also a personal favorite, mostly because my despair is somehow simultaneously muffled and amplified by the tight, four-door space in which I am crying. To the gym and, specifically, the treadmill, thank you for letting me run and pretend I’m doing it to get fit when we all know I’m doing it so I can tell my friends I went to the gym. Or better yet, Snapchat them from the gym. Then they’ll have to see it and know that it’s real. To my classes, thank you for being a place where I can time travel to Ancient

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Rome one minute and Victorian England the next. Yes, sometimes I could use a few more cups of coffee or a little less discussion, but when I am focusing, it’s the best hour and 25 minutes of my day. To Vondy, thank you for being an angelic glass box space of happy coffee and people-watching. When I say I’m working in Vondy, most times I mean I’m going to rate people’s sweaterboots combination and occasionally glance at my laptop screen. I say all my thank you’s not to prove just how together I am, but instead to prove just how together I am not. Sometimes I feel like Duke is all about exteriors: not just what someone looks like but what image they offer of themselves. After four years here, I’ve learned that almost everyone is struggling with something. We all have our little coping mechanisms that get us through the day, our routines that give us faith that tomorrow will be better. Whatever they may be, I hope you realize that we all have them. And when it gets really hard, sometimes just having those can be enough. Happy Spring semester, everyone. —Elizabeth Djinis

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Metal Pole Mayhem premieres aerial dance showcase Georgina Del Vecho The Chronicle Although a plethora of unique and eclectic shows have come to Durham throughout the years, an especially unusual performance will be at Motorco Music Hall this month. Metal Pole Mayhem is a pole and aerial showcase and is set to debut in Durham Saturday, Jan. 30. The show’s coordinator and one of its performers, Theresa Rappleye, said that this will be their first show ever and that every act has been made in preparation for Jan. 30. The performers are primarily professionals and students of pole dance fitness and aerial arts in the Raleigh-Durham area as well as performers coming from Charlotte, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Florida for the show. “We love a good, lyrical, pretty dance but many of [the performers] also have a non-traditional, edgy, push the envelope sort of approach to the world, or we wouldn’t have taken up an alternative to the regular gym fitness/ Zumba/aerobics class fitness routine,” Rappleye said. Metal Pole Mayhem is different from many of the pole and/or aerial shows that have been performed in Durham. Instead of the typical lyrical, dreamy music to which most of these shows are performed, every act included in the event will be performed alongside rock music. “When thinking up the show

concept, we were hoping to create an edgy tribute to the gritty garage rock bands and allow the performers to have a good time along with the audience. This gives the performers a chance to ‘let their hair down’ and have fun dancing to something different.” The showcase also prides itself on integrating varying types of rock, which performer Janine Cooper said creates a performance through which the performers can be creative with their artistic expression. “We all are telling such individual and different stories of rock ‘n’ roll, but they come together to show a strong history of rock ‘n’ roll and the influence it has made on generations,” Cooper said. “This show allows all of us to showcase our art, while showing each of our interpretations of rock n’ roll through different varieties of music. ” As each performer had the chance to choose the song for their own performance, the event will feature an eclectic mix of songs from each sub genre of rock, each with its own special meaning to the performer. “My inspiration for my piece came from an old song that was remade,” said performer Tamarra Walker. “My interpretation of the song is that the band identifies some of the strengths and weaknesses of each member of the group, but they need each other to do extraordinary things. It’s classic. We all have strengths and weaknesses and we need those two facets of our being to

Panel Discussion aT THe nasHeR MuseuM oF aRT

Collecting and Presenting Work by Artists of African Descent Thursday, February 11, 2016 7 PM

Thelma Golden, director and chief curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem. Photo by Julie Skarratt.

Jack Shainman, owner, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Pamela Joyner, San Francisco art collector.

Franklin Sirmans, director, Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Photo by Jackie Nickerson. Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Photo by Jeff Gamble.

Photo by Angel Valentin. Courtesy Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Holland Cotter, art critic, The New York Times. Photo by Damon Winter, The New York Times.

Join us, at the Nasher Museum, for a lively and critical conversation on collecting and presenting work by artists of African descent, moderated by Richard J. Powell, Dean of Humanities and John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke. This event is a collaboration between the Nasher Museum, Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Central University Art Museum and the North Carolina Museum of Art.

2001 Campus Drive, Durham I nasher.duke.edu ABOVE: Kehinde Wiley, Ivelaw III (study) (detail), 2006. Pencil and oil on paper, 27 1⁄2 x 21 1⁄2 inches (69.9 x 54.6 cm). Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Promised gift of Blake Byrne (‘57), in honor of Raymond D. Nasher. © Kehinde Wiley Studio. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

make and do extraordinary things.” Metal Pole Mayhem’s combination of pole, lyra hoop and burlesque acts may be surprising or unconventional to those who go to see the performance, which is mirrored in the way some dancers themselves have chosen to be pushed physically and artistically by their pieces. “[My piece] is longer and faster than my usual song selections but I can’t wait to bring it to life,” said performer Ellie Russell. “This piece has challenged me as a dancer. It is way out of my comfort zone.”

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Hoof ‘n’ Horn takes a serious turn in ‘Next to Normal’ Christy Kuesel The Chronicle This winter, Hoof n’ Horn looks to start new conversations about mental illness in “Next to Normal.” “Next to Normal” is a 2009 Broadway rock musical that explores the journey of the Goodman family. Diana Goodman, the mother, is diagnosed with bipolar disorder and undergoes different treatments for her mental illness. The musical also covers how she and her family cope with her mental health journey. The production features a cast of six total actors, a small number for a well-known musical. The show prides itself on the realism in its storyline and characters, especially in dealing with the relationships in the Goodman family. “My cast and I are very interested in the way that ‘Next to Normal’ seems to want to portray family dynamics as realistically as possible,” said sophomore Savannah Lynn, the show’s director. “[It] tries to not hold punches in the way that people react to things--the way that we connect with each other when it comes to dealing with things like this, like tough situations in a family.” Hoof n’ Horn is also proud of the realistic set it has created for the show. For “Next to Normal,” the production crew has pulled together to make a more elaborate set, featuring a kitchen with hardwood floors as well as moving parts to create different backgrounds. The show uses many different locations, and the crew was able to use just a few key pieces to create entirely different areas for the scenes to take place. “It’s really cool seeing how easily you can get the audience’s attention from place to place on the stage just by turning things around and shining light in different places,” said freshman Chandler Richards, a member of the set-changing crew. The production crew focused in on small details that bring the musical to life such as putting out food and drink for the characters to eat, as well as using natural hair and makeup to demonstrate how realistic the characters are. Writers Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey took full advantage of the musical format of “Next to Normal,” writing over 30 songs, ranging in style from jazzy and folk songs to beautiful ballads and powerful group numbers. “They have focused on a topic that is so emotional, that is so complicated, that is so moving, and they put it with an art form that is so dramatic and so moving and so emotional,” said music director Andrew Jacobs, noting the unique combination of the musical format and the issues of mental health, loss and grief explored during the show. While “Next to Normal” deals with mental illness and how it affects relationships among family, it also takes a look at the mental health

industry as a whole. Diana goes through a series of different treatments and interacts with the doctors Dr. Fine and Dr. Madden. The two doctors represent different extremes in the industry, as Dr. Fine is only in the business for the money, while Dr. Madden genuinely cares about Diana and what is best for her. Diana also needs to try different strategies to treat her illness, shining light on the reality that not every treatment works for every patient. Diana’s journey through different doctors and treatments

t’s the most challenging and innovative set that Hoof ‘n’ Horn has done in recent memory. — Savannah Lynn represents a truth for many people who do suffer from mental illness. “The things that Diana sees through her various treatment options and the doctors that she sees are things that happen very realistically,” Lynn said. Sophomore Simon Wolf, a University of North Carolina Chapel Hill student and the actor playing both Dr. Madden and Dr. Fine, said that the show allowed him to explore the more professional side of mental health. Wolf did online research and talked to clinical psychologists to learn more about why people want to go into the mental health industry. He then incorporated this information into his characterizations of both Dr. Fine and Dr. Madden. “It’s been very eye-opening to come at a big social issue from a very different perspective,” Wolf said. The show is particularly timely, since issues of mental health are increasingly discussed across Duke’s campus. The Duke chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Health was recently founded, and Duke’s Counseling and Psychological Services is becoming a more prominent force at the university. The Saturday performances of the show will be followed by a discussion with CAPS in which audience members can take time to reflect on the themes explored in the show. “We’re looking to bring some of the conversation that arises from ‘Next to Normal’ into the Duke community and thinking about how the show applies to the community that we walk through every day,” Lynn said. The cast and crew of “Next to Normal” are excited to explore such new territory and spark new ideas and discussions on campus. “We’ve never waded into such murky waters before—in a good way,” Jacobs said. “Next to Normal” opens Jan. 21 and runs through Jan. 31 in Sheafer Theater.

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REVIEW: Curve of the Earth REVIEW: Not to Disappear Lucy Zhang The Chronicle The English indie rock band Mystery Jets recently released their fifth album, “Curve of the Earth,” a brutally poignant work in both melody and lyrics. Mystery Jets was formed by Henry Harrison, Blaine Harrison and William Rees—a combination of father, son and friend who formed the band when Blaine was just 12. Mystery Jets creates music that certainly does not lack in intensity and deeply metaphorical, and often angst-ridden, lyrics. Curve of Earth opens with the song “Telomere,” which begins with a steady guitar staccato and long, drawn out vocals by Blaine Harrison. The song appears to continuously build in intensity until reaching a partial catharsis, before the melody begins again. The vocals exercise significant restraint, gradually powering up as the instruments crescendo, until reaching the phrase “in the telomere,” which is dragged out. The entirety of the vocals adheres to the template, creating a sort of predictability within the song as well as a sense of relief when Harrison proceeds to the second chorus. The lyrics themselves read as a kind of haunting poem about a lover and this concept of a telomere. Scientifically, the

telomere acts as a cap to the end of each strand of DNA to protect the chromosomes. In the song, the telomere is a symbol of an unyielding permanence and protection of the past. In contrast to “Telomere”’s atmospheric, mysterious and tumultuous hold on the listener, later songs such as “Bubblegum” and “Bombay Blue” possess a rhythmic, nostalgic quality. They are catchier, something one might listen to while multi-tasking. “Taken By The Tide” exudes a calming, gentle guitar opening that evolves into a melancholic, nostalgic and passionate vocals. The song parallels the progression of a beach tide that transforms into a raging wave, focusing on the fear of losing stability and being consumed by the metaphorical tide representing society, the past and the world. “Curve of the Earth” is at its core about the individual moving on, grappling with the isolation of society and binding memories of the past. The curve of the earth is blurred and ambiguous, a grey area. Growing up is less of an irrevocable transition than it is a constantly wavering and muddled collection of experiences. Mystery Jets does not provide an answer to the mystery of escapism and growing up, but rather a retrospective look into the self and a constant questioning of the past.

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Jessica Williams The Chronicle Daughter, an indie folk band hailing from the UK, dropped its most recent album, “Not To Disappear,” Jan. 15 this year. With London native Elena Tonra on vocals and guitar, Igor Haefeli on bass and Remi Aguilella on drums, Daughter hoped to duplicate the success of their 2013 album, “If You Leave.” “Not To Disappear” opens with the track “New Ways,” setting the mood for the rest of the album. With a dramatic beat and mystical sounding guitar sections, “New Ways” creates an otherworldly atmosphere persistent through the rest of the songs. The next track, “Numbers,” picks up a heavier beat but retains ethereal vibes. Though the instrumental parts of “Numbers” are quite soothing, the song’s lyrics become repetitive to the point of annoyance. The theme of nice instrumental music but also repetition then persists throughout the rest of the album. “Doing The Right Thing” is a nice, peaceful song featuring cool keyboard noises, but it isn’t anything special past a common indie song. “To Belong” and “How” both include nothing of interest and only continue the serene yet extraterrestrial sounds of all the other songs. These spacey vibes reach their zenith in

“Mothers,” making the song more notable than its peers in the album. “Alone/With You” breaks out of the mold of the album, but not in a good way. With awkward lyrics like “I hate walking alone/ I should get a dog or something,” the song makes one question whether Daughter edited their songs before production. Interesting keyboard segments redeem the track slightly, but can’t distract from the absurdity of what Tonra is singing. Though also following the general atmosphere of all the other songs, “No Care” and “Fossa” provide a nice departure. “No Care” is a good change of pace, with a faster beat and overall louder sound. “Fossa,” flowing between fast and slow beats and featuring a great guitar solo at the end, is the best song of the album. All in all, “Not To Disappear” offers a pleasant, calming sound with unearthly vibes but not much variation. Elena Tonra provides soothing, Lana Del Rey-esque vocals and the other members play impressive instrumental segments, making the album worth listening to at least once, especially while in a thoughtful mood. Individual songs are unimpressive, though, blending together lovely sounds to make each indistinguishable. Daughter will be performing at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro April 2.

Special to The Chronicle Daughter, a British indie band, is composed of Remi Aguilella, Elena Tonra and Igor Haefeli.

Dance department takes on passion of Flamenco Grace Peterson The Chronicle Last Spring, Duke’s dance department kicked off the Passion of Flamenco, a year during which the department welcomed world-renowned artists to teach and perform for students. In 2016, Dickinson and the rest of the dance department with continue to promote the Spanish dance. The department will be bringing in worldrenowned artists Belén Maya and Leonor Leal for visits this Spring, as well as dance company Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. Barbara Dickinson, professor of the practice of dance and the one who created the Passion of Flamenco program at Duke, started the program in hopes of educating her students and the Duke community as a whole in this unique dance form. “We’re really just trying to nurture a knowledge of flamenco at the University for our students,” Dickinson said. “There are other faculty that have interest in this area as well who want to share this dance form with the Duke community.” Beyond wanting to share Flamenco, Dickinson and her colleagues believe that visits from Flamenco artists place dance in its cultural context. Duke will be host to dancers Bélen Maya, Leonor Leal and company Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. “The Flamenco dance form sits

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beautifully in our program, especially because it has had not only Spanish influence but also the Moorish influence and [from] a number of other countries and cultures,” she said. In addition to the moves, music and passion that is present in a typical flamenco show, Bélen Maya introduced an interdisciplinary element to the style of dance. Her performance is a compilation of theater, language, theory, drama, aesthetics and more. This holistic technique

broadened the scope of flamenco performances and created new possibilities for the art. Maya displayed her unique style on stages in Spain and around the world, as well as in director Carlos Saura’s film “Flamenco.” Maya will have three events in the Ark Dance Studio that are free and open to the public. The first is a lunch and conversation Feb. 3, the second a lecture and demonstration on Feb. 5, and the final event a master class Feb. 6. Leonor Leal is a similarly talented artist

who has been training in dance for the majority of her life. She is originally from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain and trained first in Spanish classical dance before taking up Flamenco. Leal will take a short residency at Duke from March 23 to 26. She is offering a talk and demonstration March 23 and an open master class in Flamenco March 26. Finally, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana is coming to Durham to share their performance “The Passion of Flamenco: Up Close and Personal.” The Spanish dance company specializes not only in performance, but also in arts education and community outreach. Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana values the importance of the art of dance and is working to bring Flamenco to schools around the world. Last year, they offered a free symposium and master class on Flamenco to Duke students and the general public. In fact, Duke has a well established relationship with Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. “We’ve had a long association and collaboration with Carlota Santana,” Dickinson said. “[Santana] started teaching a full culture course for us called the Art and Cultural History of Flamenco, and her company has been present in Duke performances.” Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana is performing four times over Valentine’s Day weekend at Motorco Music Hall.

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Durham hip-hop artist Professor Toon drops new LP I have to start writing right then at that moment. Whatever I feel, whatever I start talking about at that moment I just don’t really think of that specific place.

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Professor Toon is a Durham-based hip-hop producer and songwriter who previously attended Durham School of the Arts. He has performed alongside touring acts including Meek Mill, Big Sean and Mike Posner and will be holding a release show for his new LP “Take Notes” at Motorco this Friday, Jan. 22. The Chronicle’s Elizabeth Djinis talked with Professor Toon about his Durham roots, artistic process and turning his life trials into songs.

The Chronicle: What is your new LP like? Professor Toon: Just emotionally it’s a collection of everything that I’m feeling right now. iI’s not always the exact narrative because I do some flashbacks during the album. It’s more of an introduction to myself as an artist, me finding my new voice. I’ve got a lot of flashbacks to some early matters in my life—I’ve had to deal with domestic violence and a few other issues. Also [I was] living in impoverished conditions, a little bit of my grind and my ascent and kind of growing as a businessman, as an artist at the same time since I handle most of my stuff independently. The 9-to5 grind that I experienced a lot of having to grow

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up early helping my mom out and dealing with the issues that domestic violence survivors kind of deal with. You don’t usually want to leave the abusers pushing that point across. Also not compromising my artistic view of things, I don’t really want to make extra effort to go Will Smith on the music [editor’s note: Will Smith famously did not curse in his music]—profanity, cussing, I want to be in the middle of that raw emotion at the time. ....The album is super depressing but the beats are surprisingly upbeat. You’re kind of in emotional limbo—”Aw man, I want to dance but also I want to listen to this right now.” Whatever style those tracks are, I let people choose if they want to move them, or if they want to be moved by the music. TC: Talk a little bit about the songwriting

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process. PT: Most of my songs start out on the toilet. I try to stay [with] raw emotion. I’m usually playing a beat—I’ll have my headphones in while I’m sitting there. When I’m starting to write a song melody, I’m not that great of a singer even though I sing a lot on my tracks. The acoustics in the bathroom are really good to hide my shortcomings as a singer. I don’t really think about if I sound bad while I’m writing. I usually think to a beat and, to keeping the sh***** theme here, I let myself have diarrhea of the mouth. Whatever the first things come out and I let the emotion flow from there. Usually I’m touched by the beat already. It’s really weird and hippie how I think about beat and the emotion. Beats evoke emotion for me, especially baseline touches my heart, “Oh s**t this is so dope” and

TC: You attended Durham School of the Arts. When did you first know you wanted to be a performer? PT: I worked at Duke. I didn’t find that until I was way into adult life. I dropped out of high school, I stayed out for a year and then I finally went back and got my equivalency. And then I went to college for a semester but then I stopped going, and I went back and did my second semester. I finished one full year of college... but it took me like three years to finish and I dropped out of school twice. My second time leaving school was because I knew I wanted to be an artist, specifically a rapper. I always had a knack for theater, a knack for stage, but I wasn’t dead set on that being something I wanted to do. I was a class clown and I would always spark conversations and sidetrack the entire class. So I guess it was kind of in school that I started to control crowds. I’d have the whole side of the classroom on another schtick. I’d get kicked out a lot for just talking and being a know-it-all. She suggested I try theater and that was like history. I went into theater, and my theater teacher told me to apply for Hillsides or DSA. You need to be over there where they can culture your skill set and make that a thing. I applied for DSA twice. I didn’t get in the first time. I got in the second time during the lottery and when I got in I started acting. I went for a whole first semester they threw me into one of the feature plays. “Mother Courage” was my first one. I’d do two plays and then after two plays were over I had a job so I was working. It wasn’t like I was completely eating s***. I went to work, I was working more hours saving my money.

SLAVIC & EURASIAN STUDIES WINTER FORUM January 22-23, 2016

Sponsored by Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies & Duke University Center for International Studies Please join us this Friday night, January 22nd at 5:30 PM for opening statements from Ambassador John F. Matlock. Location: Holsti Anderson Family Assembly Room, located on the first floor of Rubenstein Library. *** Then Saturday, January 23rd beginning at 10:00 AM there will be roundtable discussions by various professors from the Duke faculty.

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LIFE BEGINS UNRANKED Perfection, Out of top 25 for first time since 1999, Duke continues ACC play at Clemson squandered Mitchell Gladstone The Chronicle

Whether you want to count it as 16 years, 312 weeks or 2,188 days, Duke has been a staple of the weekly Associated Press women’s college basketball rankings. As of Monday, the third-longest streak in poll history is no more. The Blue Devils will play as an unranked team for the first time since November 1999 Duke as they travel south to Clemson, S.C., for a vs. tussle with the Tigers at Clemson Jervey Gym Thursday at 7 p.m. Although THURSDAY, 7 p.m. Duke’s conference Jervey Gym struggles have been pronounced, Clemson’s state of affairs is no better, as it has yet to win an ACC game. For the Blue Devils, Thursday is an opportunity to build on momentum that developed in Sunday’s 71-51 win against Boston College. Redshirt sophomore Rebecca Greenwell’s 14-point fourthquarter performance sparked a late-game run as Duke ran away from the Eagles. But the pressure of living up to the dominant reputation—and the top-15 billing—that the Blue Devils had earned in years past is no longer present. And for a team that is still growing, it may be a good thing. “We get into the process of being the best team possible, and I want my team

per game, they rank second-to-last in turnovers per contest with 19.1, allowing opponents to get out and run in transition while denying themselves a chance to score on the offensive end. “We have to understand that it’s a game of runs and how to capitalize on those runs,” junior Oderah Chidom said. “We do well defensively at times and well offensively at times and now it’s our ability to put it together and we’re still working on that.” Sunday’s win against Boston College was

In a season of parity in which no dominant team has emerged atop the college basketball world, the top 25 teams in the country combined for 16 losses last week. But the team that has yet to suffer a Sameer Pandhare defeat this season will not have the chance to become the first undefeated national champion since Indiana in 1976. In fact, Southern Methodist won’t even be playing in the NCAA tournament after college basketball’s governing body banned the Mustangs from tournament play Sept. 29 for multiple violations including academic fraud and unethical conduct by head coach Larry Brown. After moving to 18-0 with a 77-73 win against Houston Tuesday night, Southern Methodist—better known as SMU— strengthened its hold on the No. 8 spot in this week’s AP poll and figures to move up following three more top-5 losses already this week. Although the Mustangs are allowed to be ranked in the poll, the team will not be allowed to participate in both its conference tournament and March Madness. After missing the postseason for 12 consecutive seasons, Southern Methodist returned to the tournament in 2015 led by the remarkable work of Brown—the only coach

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Yuxiang He | The Chronicle After a 1-3 start to ACC play cost Duke its spot in the AP top 25, junior Oderah Chidom and the Blue Devils can get back to .500 in conference action with a road win Thursday at Clemson.

to be comfortable as the top dog, as the underdog or as any dog in the fight,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We’re just developing, and our schedule was exceedingly difficult early, but that’s good. It’s taught us a lot.” Last season, Duke (13-6, 2-3 in the ACC) picked up its sixth loss January 22, 2015, so though this year’s team is on a similar pace, its consistency issues have been more glaring. Although the Blue Devils lead the conference in defensive rebounds at 28.1

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Blue Devils cruise to 7-0 win against Phoenix David Rieder The Chronicle As the old adage goes, there’s no place like home. Playing on its home courts at Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center for the first time this season, No. 16 Duke dominated Elon 7-0 in its first dual match of the season. After a stellar weekend performance at the Freeman Memorial in Las ELON 0 Vegas, freshman DUKE 7 Kaitlyn McCarthy was again the standout player for the Blue Devils. McCarthy, ranked No. 29 in the country, swept Phoenix sophomore Olivia Lucas 6-0, 6-0 in their singles matchup, and she joined with sophomore Samantha Harris to defeat Elon’s duo of Natalia Janowicz and Kirsten Ward in doubles, 6-1. “[McCarthy] can really be as good as she wants to be,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “What holds her back now is trying to get outside her comfort zone and

trying to do things that necessarily she’s not comfortable with, but hopefully down the road she will be. If she can do that, then she can play with anyone in the country.” Prior to last weekend’s tournament in Las Vegas, the Blue Devils (1-0) had not competed since early November. Throw in a winter break that ran a week longer than normal, and there was the possibility for a sluggish start to the spring season. But McCarthy showed no signs of rust Wednesday. “I feel like I got back into it pretty quickly considering I didn’t hit a whole ton over break, but I was working out,” McCarthy said. “I was trying to get more physical over break as opposed to trying to work on my game, and I think that’s showing in the first bit of the season.” Playing against the Phoenix (0-2) in their first dual match as Blue Devils, freshmen McCarthy, Jessica Ho and Ellyse Hamlin all See W. TENNIS on Page 12

Sanjeev Dasgupta | Chronicle File Photo Junior Chalena Scholl picked up a straight-set win at third singles as the Blue Devils won their first dual match of the season.

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Sanjeev Dasgupta | Chronicle File Photo The Blue Devils will return to action Friday for the ITA Kick-Off Weekend.

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first sets and play better in the second, but surprisingly our freshmen handled themselves pretty well.” Duke junior Chalena Scholl also had a successful afternoon. Ranked No. 79 in the country, Scholl dispatched Zenoni 6-3, 6-1. Redshirt freshman Christina Makarova took down Kamilla Beisenova 6-4, 6-1, and junior Alyssa Smith battled back from a first set defeat to beat Elon’s Taylor Casey 3-6, 6-3, 1-0. Harris’ singles match was the last to finish on the afternoon. Having already won the first set against Elon’s Erica Braschi and leading 5-2 in the second, Harris lost four straight games and ended up losing the set in the tiebreak before bouncing back to win a 10-point third set. “She grinded it out,” Ashworth said. “She wasn’t feeling great. To be honest, I had no intention of playing her before the match started, but she wanted to play singles. She kind of took one for the team there being on the court, and she did a good job of fighting back. She was up in the second set, had some opportunities to close it out and didn’t. She could have easily gone the other way, but she was a good competitor there at the end and did a good job of fighting through and winning that tiebreaker.” Scholl and Smith trailed Elon’s Casey and Braschi 1-5 in doubles, but their match was abandoned after Duke clinched the doubles point with its other two wins. The Blue Devils will be back in action Friday in the first round of the ITA Kickoff, seeking a spot in the National Team Indoors Championships. Duke takes on Portland at 1:30 p.m. in Durham, with the winner advancing to face either Florida State or Mississippi State.

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Chronicle File Photo Former Blue Devil Semi Ojeleye transferred to Southern Methodist in December 2014. The undefeated Mustangs are ineligible for the NCAA tournament this year.

MUSTANGS from page 11 in basketball history to win both an NCAA and NBA title with Kansas and the Detroit Pistons, respectively. In just two seasons, the 75-year old head coach made Dallas one of the hotbeds for college basketball, attracting prized recruits such as Emmanuel Mudiay— who later opted to play in China instead of at the college level—Keith Frazer, Ben Moore and Sterling Brown. But history proved to repeat itself as Brown once again cost his team a shot at history. The former Kansas head coach was first targeted by the NCAA in 1989 when his program provided improper inducements to a recruit under his watch and nearly led to the shutdown of the Jayhawk program. At the time, Brown paid minimally for his actions. Although the Jayhawks became the first team to be banned from defending their national title, the head coach had moved on to the San Antonio Spurs. This time, Brown seems to have been let off easy again—he served only a nine-game suspension, and if the Mustangs keep winning, he stands to further cement his status as an all-time great head coach. Don’t get me wrong—the NCAA’s willingness to drop the hammer for infractions jeopardizing the academic potential of a program’s student-athletes should be applauded. But is the correct culprit being punished? For a school that faced the “Death Penalty” during the 1987 season for infractions by its football program, this season’s penalties feel like an even bigger punch in the gut. Although many discount the Mustangs’ strong start to the season due to weaker competition in the American Athletic Conference, a closer look at the team’s resume shows that it could stack up with some

of the best in the nation. Early in the season, Southern Methodist toppled Michigan by 24 points, the same Wolverine team that upset then-No. 3 Maryland last week. The Mustangs also boast victories against Stanford and Colorado, two of the mid-tier teams in an unpredictable Pac-12 conference. But arguably the saddest part of the team’s story is the injustice for seniors Nic Moore, Markus Kennedy and Jordan Tolbert, who will never taste the Big Dance again. Instead, the last image the trio will have of March Madness is a heart-breaking 60-59 defeat to UCLA in the Round of 64 last year after a controversial goaltending call cost them a chance to advance. There’s also Semi Ojeleye, who transferred to Southern Methodist from Duke in December 2014 but has yet to take the court for the Mustangs this year. Ojeleye missed out on Duke’s national championship run last year and won’t get a chance to be a part of what could have been a promising postseason this season, either. The loss of Moore means that college basketball fans are also big losers from the ruling levied by the NCAA. Standing at just 5-foot-9, the reigning AAC player of the year is the kind of speedy, undersized point guard better suited for the college game than the NBA. Averaging 15.6 points per game on 40 percent shooting from deep, Moore has also shown the ability to carry his team when needed such as in a tight 59-57 win against Cincinnati, in which he rallied his team from seven down with just three and a half minutes to go. With only 12 games standing between Southern Methodist and a perfect regular season, the team certainly has something to play for. After all, an unblemished 30-0 mark might be just what is needed to leave many wondering just what could have been.

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sat out of Sunday’s game with ankle injuries, and freshman guard Haley Gorecki continues to be sidelined with a hip ailment. “We’re finally getting parts together,” McCallie said. “[Until now], we haven’t even had the team to form. In regards to our our team, we’re probably going to be late bloomers, simply because we haven’t had all those component parts operating together.” Wherever the Blue Devils’ true identity may be hiding, with rival North Carolina visiting Durham Sunday afternoon, there could not be a better time for Duke to find itself.

for [Greenwell] relative to her becoming a player who can ball-fake and have a midrange game as well as a 3-point game as well as rebounding as well as defense,” McCallie said. “I’m just enjoying her working through that. I know at times it hasn’t been pleasant—it’s hard, but I love the direction she’s moving.” For the Blue Devils, this season is still very much a work in progress. Numerous injuries and absences have yet to allow McCallie and her staff to install all the pieces of what initially looked to be a deep and talented Duke squad. Redshirt freshman forward Lyneé Belton and freshman point guard Angela Salvadores

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but we definitely need to be a 40-minute team, and that takes a lot of focus and concentration.” If Duke can string together four solid quarters of play Thursday, it should have a good chance to get back to .500 in conference play. Clemson (4-13, 0-4) has just two doublefigure scorers—guards Nelly Perry and Danielle Edwards—and has been outscored by more than 13 points per game. The Tigers are also allowing nearly six made 3-pointers per game, something Duke will look to exploit with the sharp-shooting Greenwell on the wings. Although this season has been one of peaks and valleys for the Owensboro, Ky., native, her most recent performance showed glimpses of her spectacular campaign last season. “This is kind of an evolutionary year

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ince at least 2006, the Career Center, Computer Science Department and Pratt School of Engineering have hosted TechConnect, an event that brings together students and employers to promote engineering and technical careers on campus. Over the years, this more informal career fair has grown as the tech industry has risen and started to recruit more heavily from colleges, especially in the Research Triangle. But in recent years, another choice has presented itself to those interested in technology. Alongside the traditionally featured companies like Epic, Microsoft and Google, more and more students are working on tech start-ups. With the innovation and entrepreneurship certificate, Duke Angel alumni network and start-up challenges, the push at Duke towards a more Silicon Valley-like start-up culture is undeniable. But students who are considering entrepreneurship should be cautious and not discount Duke’s traditional education or underestimate what it takes to balance full-time study with around-the-clock business projects. Attempts to blend the classroom and business worlds have drawn skepticism from us before, and we continue to question the place of the latter at Duke. Enough of the work of creating and managing a startup is done between students and outside of Duke that it seems an unnatural stretch to bring those projects

“It’s time that more students stand up against these very illiberal abuses, the pushing of identity politics and culture of grievancemongering. There is nothing tolerant about any of it, and it’s past time there be some real pushback.” — “Matt Stoughton” commenting on the Jan. 20 column “An open letter to President Brodhead”

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into the classroom. While projects that demonstrate enthusiasm for development to employers or are hobby-like exercises of acquired skills are certainly a good use of time and knowledge, we mean to address specifically those companies that many students are not equipped to run, especially those that require such sweat equity as to compete with a student’s four years. With technological start-ups—mobile app development comes to mind—the payoffs from a project that takes off are huge and can be gamechanging for a student’s career path. In STEM fields, the possibilities and ways to success are only growing

Editorial as technology continually reminds us of its integration into our lives. Products aside, the teamwork and responsibility of managing start-ups are invaluable demonstrations of job readiness, and there are lots of growing experiences for those who can balance academics with acting as CEOs, marketing staff, financial managers and salespeople. As this enormous demand for time and attention might suggest, the individual choice to take on a startup is not to be taken lightly. While a semester or two devoted to entrepreneurship is not the end of the world,

the drawbacks are clear if students sacrifice dedicated learning in their classes for time in the radically different business world. Traditional education is the backbone of Duke, and we simply do not have many of the convenience advantages that Silicon Valley or New York City universities have in terms of access to the worlds of start-ups and big business investments. Yet even outside of technological start-ups there are issues. In the realm of “social entrepreneurship,” students identify problems and solutions in the world and make use of business models and solution implementations. However, this cross-over is often poorly defined, and the possibility of starting a sustainable, break-out organization is very low given the nature of the problems being addressed and the funding required to be more than a drop in the bucket. And unlike technological start-ups, these have a history of fading to obscurity whereas app developers, for example, usually have patents within reach or design features that are easily transferable to other projects. All across the board, students have good reasons to stay risk-averse and be discerning in considering whether entrepreneurship projects are for them. Our time at Duke is limited and should be employed to its fullest for academically homing in on skill sets, academic projects and research about disciplines and global issues.

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In trying to bring clarity to the debate over campus speech, Bennett Carpenter’s column on Jan. 19 makes several mistakes and omissions about the First Amendment. Carpenter says he cannot imagine how student activists could violate anyone’s First Amendment rights. True, private universities are not subject to the First Amendment, but it’s not hard to imagine a scenario in which student activism leads to potential First Amendment violations. Public universities, as state actors, are subject to the First Amendment. Suppose student activists at such a university successfully advocate for the imposition of a speech code that flatly prohibits any speech that is offensive to racial minorities. A student is then disciplined for violating the code by publishing an oped suggesting that affirmative action hurts its intended beneficiaries. That might violate the First Amendment’s prohibition on viewpointbased discrimination. Carpenter professes to be unable to distinguish between someone shouting fire in a crowded theater and hate speech directed against racial minorities. The difference is simply that when you falsely shout “fire” in a

crowded theater, you are creating the possibility of imminent physical harm to bystanders. When someone publishes offensive things about racial minorities, there usually isn’t the same likelihood of imminent physical harm. This distinction is key to the First Amendment’s protection of unpopular speech; only that speech which threatens to incite imminent physical harm can be punished, with some other exceptions for libel, true threats, obscenity, etc. Carpenter notes that historically speaking, hate speech could be prohibited consistent with the First Amendment. This may be true, but is Carpenter willing to follow this kind of argument to its logical conclusion? Historically speaking, the First Amendment left unprotected vast swaths of speech that everyone would agree today ought to be protected. For example, in a series of cases in the early twentieth century, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld convictions of communists and other radicals for expressing unpopular views. Does it follow that we should return to this approach to offensive speech? Matthew Craig Law ‘16

Letter to the Editor I am a die hard Duke fan, class of ‘71. I attend basketball games regularly and love all the drama. Monday night, it was not the heartbreaking loss for the team that upset me as much as it was the fact that, on Martin Luther King Day, an African-American student was not chosen to sing the National Anthem. I am not one of those “political correctness” scholars, nor am I even an academic, but rather a social worker who

has spent my life working with people of all races. As I sat next to an African-American couple at the game, I wanted to lean over and say, “I’m sorry,” after the National Anthem was sung. Hopefully, whoever chooses the singers for games in the future will start to look at what day it is and who they are choosing. Patricia Bartlett T ‘71

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oliticians talk about it. Social scientists analyze it. Dean Gerald Wilson has a course about it. And everyone seems to want it. Traditionally understood, the “American Dream” consists in our achieving a standard of living that is better than that of our parents. For immigrants, that often includes a freer political environment and more fluid social mobility. For others, that may mean a better paying job or more prestigious social position.

we contribute to a public moral culture that conduces to the common good? After answering those larger questions, we can address the question most immediate to college students: what employment will be most enriching, even if not well paying? As Saint John Paul II emphasized in his marquee encyclical letter, “On Human Work,” work is a means of self-expression and self-development— work is for man, not man for work. In that regard, money cannot be an end in itself but is only a means of

appy springtime, Duke humans. It’s that time of year again: time to rush into your niche. Just that word, rush, does sound a bit overwhelming if you ask me. How about we use a different term to ease the tension? Can we call it fall into? Stumble upon? How about the social stroll? Better yet, collecting peers? Regardless, please go into this season maintaining the mindset that you belong here. Yes you. You were one of a billion applicants who received a non-rejection letter to Duke University. You are a unique,

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Whether America provides those opportunities is a political and economic question that I will not address. Rather, I am concerned—in community with every Duke student—with how we should conceive of the American Dream or, better, each person’s own American Dream. What, ultimately, should we aspire to make of our lives? The American Dream should consist in our realizing as fully as possible our intrinsic anthropology as the Imago Dei. In practical terms, that means fulfilling both our objective human nature and our subjective personal vocations. Our objective dimension constitutes the nature that we share as human persons—as composites of body and soul. As such, we rightly aspire to satisfy our material needs—a reasonable level of subsistence, health care, education and recreation. But we also have spiritual needs, and those are deeper, more lasting and more central to our flourishing than our material needs. The rich person can be unhappy and the poor happy, from which we infer that happiness must come from something other than money alone. Serving the material dimension of our persons cannot satisfy us durably, as our bodies are dust, and unto dust they shall return. Our souls, meanwhile, will continue to exist forever. In addition, we all have a subjective dimension that is particular to each person. Each of us—no matter our level of education, our race, gender or class, our physical or mental abilities—has a unique interior experience and unique talents and preferences, insecurities and idiosyncrasies. When we reflect upon that interior experience—what we enjoy, thrive on and do well—we begin to discern a subjective vocation specific to each of us as unrepeatable persons. Our pursuit of the American Dream must flow from our objective and subjective dimensions. We should build its framework with the objective truths that structure our existence. Our flourishing and happiness are found in conforming our lives to those truths, which are expressed in natural law and the cardinal virtues of justice, temperance, courage and prudence. As the old adage goes, “In virtue there is happiness, and in vice there is sadness.” And the corollary: Happiness is not something that is properly “pursued” in its own right but is rather the result of practicing objective virtue. We then fill out the interior of that framework by considering our talents, desires and preferences. What are our personal vocations? With what values do we hope to ground our family lives? Do those values conform to the objective moral order, and will they assist us in uniting with our ultimate end? How will

meeting basic material needs and, after that, promoting good, moral and charitable ends. In fact, material success—the typical focus of the American Dream—can be a mixed blessing. Not only does material success fail to nourish our whole being, but it also can command excessive attention and produce addiction—we can become workaholics or ground our self-worth in power, prestige or nice things. Like all addictions, seeking happiness solely or even primarily in material success will send us into a tailspin. Social science research provides evidence that middle-aged, white men—the group labeled as “most privileged” in America—are committing suicide at a higher rate than any other demographic in the United States. Privilege does not deliver happiness. Many within our Duke community, from professors to coaches to facilities workers, have laudably chosen work that develops their whole persons. Within five years of graduating, many Duke students will make as much or more money than their professors who have held posts in the academy for years. That difference in income only increases when compared to that of coaches and facilities workers. Yet, day after day, many of these members of the Duke community are rewarded by productive engagements with colleagues and students that enrich and may even transform their lives and ours. Many are exemplars of persons who have discerned and pursued a vocational calling to the benefit of their communities, families and themselves. We should use our brief and valuable time on this campus to begin to build a personal American Dream. Explore your objective and subjective dimensions, your talents and your spiritual yearnings. And, as we begin this spring semester—a semester filled with the stresses of internship recruiting for underclassmen and second-round job searches for seniors—we should affirm that the pursuit of happiness is not an exercise in maximizing the prestige or compensation of our job offers. Even more, we should resist comparing our offers and plans to those of others. Those are the errors of the materialistic, one-size-fits-all conception of the American Dream. Rather, the American Dream should mirror the seamless, fully integrated, unique composite that is each human person. We should pursue our own, personal American Dream by embracing the objective moral order, discerning our unique subjective vocation and orienting our lives to our ultimate end—becoming as fully as possible the Imago Dei. William Rooney is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Thursdays.

brilliant and interesting part of the Duke community, regardless of the box you find yourself part of by end of this RUSH. Unfortunately, even in your best efforts, you cannot be completely summed up by a few letters on a tee shirt or the new label you identify by. Stop stressing about rushing into the box that will make everything in your life line-up and happen. It’s who you are and the energy, charisma, light and zest that you bring into a space that count. Before I try to get all feelings-based on you, I do need to make note that I am very aware of my audience. This is a unique bubble. Very-competitive. A lot of brilliant beyond brilliant minds all striving to be at the top of their games. Have you ever wondered though why the social scene has to be yet another competition? Can we admit to an invisible social hierarchy here on campus? You compete with all the thousands of other U.S. high school valedictorians to get in here, and then once you’re in here, you compete again since you are competitive by your genetic makeup. Internships. Majors. Extra-extra curricular activities. The list is as exhausting as the maintenance of the lifestyle. Even a lack of sleep is a competition. I got four hours...well I got negative three so HA. Why do we play these funny games, Duke students? Social capitalism? Is busier the new better? Better groups means better access to who knows what? Parties? Internships? BUZZ WORD NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES? Good-looking humans? Current-senior here. I know it exists. However, once you leave Duke, you will not be able to flaunt your self worth by your affiliation or lack thereof. You will be stuck with YOU in a sea of millions instead of a few thousand. So work on competing with yourself instead of your peers. Furthermore, utilize this bubble’s uniquely high concentration of brilliant and different beautiful minds to help YOU grow. Do not get stuck in a box of homogenous ideals surrounded by versions of yourself. That just doesn’t sound like a lot of development or fun for that matter. Go into this RUSH trying to remember to love yourself first and foremost. I hope you will end up in a box where

you feel accepted, loved, challenged and entertained. A space where you can speak your mind and develop into the best version of yourself. What is great about college is that you get to decide which groups to grow in and which ones to ditch. Depending on the size of your circle, club, box, athletic team, independence, you may have to do some extra effort in finding a group that meshes with your unique energy to help realize your potential. It is totally worth it though! I am not saying to go out and match.com

it style for the perfect niche. What I am trying to say is that if you are not happy with the people you are hanging out with, it may be time to find a new group of people to jam with instead of complaining about another meeting or expensive dues to maintain their loyalties. Do not worry about how this club, box, group, brotherhood, sisterhood, etc. stacks up to the others because no one really cares. I promise you they are too busy caring about themselves. We are in our early 20’s, still that time in development where our worlds revolve around us. Regardless of if you “make it” or not into your dream box, club, affiliation, gig, do not worry. Walk. Don’t RUSH to the next right place for your unique YOU. That being said, this is that one Best Years of Your Life time when your BFF, first and foremost, should be you. Chances are you are childless, careerless and selfish. There has been a lot more alone time during my undergraduate career than this extreme-ended extrovert was prepared for. This self-friendship was a hard one to come by considering I double as my own worst critic and enemy. Then again, how do you think I got here? The standards I have for myself are higher than I can achieve in one lifetime. In my experience, my circle consists of friends that help push that standard while helping me realize my dreams and goals. Until you find that, take yourself on a date, bring a friend if you want, have a heart to heart, journal, share your wildest dreams out-loud. Never let any group or person dim that light that got you into such an amazing institution. YOU ARE SO AWESOME! You must be. There was a like a HUGE process just to be able to enter this bubble and call it home. Don’t waste your time, energy or resources here on something as mundane as your campus social affiliation. If it is getting to the top of the game however you define it, start by playing YOUR OWN game. If you are lonely, say something. I guarantee you that there is a person within 100 feet of you on this campus who feels the same way. Trust the process. Much love. Catherine. Catherine White is a Trinity senior. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays.

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