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Looking back BRODHEAD AND BASKETBALL From a K-Ville rally to dealing with the one-and-done era at BSA’s 50 years at Duke Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle For 50 years, the Black Student Alliance has been a central actor in Duke’s history. Founded in 1967 as the Afro-American Society, the organization has had five decades of experience advocating for black students at Duke. In recent years, the group has mounted responses to several incidents on campus, including the discovery of a noose near the Bryan Plaza and the defacement of a #BlackLivesMatter poster with a racist slur. But the organization seeks to do more than respond, said current BSA president Tiana Horn, a senior. “We are basically a service organization to uplift students of color and educate other students about black culture, black history and everything that goes along with that,” she said. Troy Clair, Trinity ‘02, was president of BSA during his junior year. Clair, who is currently Chief of Staff for U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield, said that BSA has always worked See BSA on Page 4

Chronicle File Photo During his 12-year tenure as Duke’s president, Richard Brodhead’s relationship with head coach Mike Krzyzewski and the University’s most recognizable athletics program has changed tremendously.

Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle As Duke President Richard Brodhead navigates his final semester, The Chronicle will be examining his impact on athletics with a series of articles, starting with one about Brodhead’s relationship with Blue Devil men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski and the men’s basketball program in the one-and-done era. Check back in the coming days for stories about Brodhead’s impact on Duke’s football program and much more. Special to The Chronicle Current BSA president Tiana Horn said the group works to uplift students of color.

From Richard Brodhead’s first day in office June 28, 2004, his presidency was tied to head coach Mike Krzyzewski. The three-time national champion at the

time was seriously pondering a five-year, $40 million offer from the Los Angeles Lakers to jump to the NBA. As a result, Brodhead took it upon himself to convince Duke’s most recognizable icon to remain in Durham, joining students in Krzyzewskiville for a rally and chanting through a megaphone for Krzyzewski to stay. “I can remember considering the Laker position. All of a sudden, I see my new president out in Krzyzewskiville with a megaphone and doing some crazy things,” Krzyzewski said. “It was neat, but then I didn’t want him to be in that position. I wanted to let him know first of all that I wasn’t going to go to the Lakers, but secondly, that I work for him.” Eventually, Krzyzewski turned down the high-

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Business-oriented student groups cite concerns with diversity Grace Mok The Chronicle Several of Duke’s business-oriented student groups expressed concerns with their racial, gender and academic diversity. Many of the groups interviewed noted that their students can be disproportionately male, Caucasian or Asian and economics or computer science majors. The groups currently use a range of methods to increase diversity—such as providing information on non-finance and non-consulting pathways, reaching out to as many people as possible and considering diversity during recruitment. Presidents of the Duke Business Society, a business-oriented group for undergraduates,

and Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity, said diversity is a focal point of their recruitment process. “We believe that the club will be much more effective and valuable to its members if we have diverse viewpoints within the club,” said senior Felipe Concha, president of the Duke Business Society. “With that in mind, when we are going through interviewing and recruiting process, we try to look for a diverse group of students on campus. Of course, diversity doesn’t just mean race or gender, but also career aspirations.” Senior Akshat Podar, president of Delta Sigma Pi, which was founded in 2013, said that the group’s changing racial makeup is important to its future direction. “I would also say that the racial blend has become more diverse over the years,” he

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said. “When we started, we had more Asians, but now we have integrated more white people as well. Going forward, we’re trying to attract minorities such as Latinos and African Americans. We want to be associated with being as diverse as possible.” Some of the other groups The Chronicle interviewed also addressed the issues of diversity, but at the same time said they were not necessarily targeting any particular kind of person to join. “I’m not really looking for a certain kind of person to join. I think it’s more that I feel uncomfortable with the idea that some people see us as an Asian organization,” said senior Eileen Yao, president of the business society Scale and Coin. “That’s not really the purpose. It’s more to educate people and show people what’s out there. So, I want people to feel more comfortable joining us as not necessarily Asian. I don’t think I’m seeking out a certain kind of person.” Yao also mentioned that the group aims to draw students who are not just interested in finance and consulting. Her group has an equitable gender ratio, she said. The Cube, a selective living group for entrepreneurial students that tends to draw computer science and economics majors, is mostly made up of students with East Asian and Indian backgrounds and is about 65 percent male. Sophomore Brian Jiang, president of the SLG, explained that the group is also looking to broaden their scope of interest from just start-ups to other areas of business. “As I mentioned beforehand, we’re not really trying for specific things. We’re mainly a core interest,” Jiang said. “As long as you have interest in anything startup related or have any ideas, we’re really open to having you join. And we aren’t really pursuing any specific breakdown, although we voted for recruiting a

stronger female population.” Another popular organization is the Investment Club, which manages a $50,000 portion of the Duke Endowment in coordination with the Duke University Management Company. Through its opento-all house course on the basics of finance, senior Travis Wolf, the group’s president, stressed that it is an open resource for all students interested in finance. “We draw students from all over, to be honest,” Wolf said. “I remember when I got into the club in my freshman year, I was surprised. The president was economics and computer science, and there was also an electrical engineer who just loved investing. Although I think that if you looked at it, a lot of the students are economic majors.” When asked if the group’s composition differed from what he would like it to be, Wolf said he did not think so. Finance recruitment has also encountered issues with diversity, said Emma Rasiel, the teaching director of the Duke Financial Economic Center who arranges academic and extracurricular activities for students interested in finance. The number of underrepresented minorities, such as African Americans, who go on to work for finance companies after Duke could be improved, she noted. “I would say over the last 10 years, the percentages are still small, maybe two or three black students at most who would go onto to Wall Street, but maybe double that now,” Rasiel said. She added that only about 25 to 30 percent of the students that the Duke Financial Economic Center interacts with are female, which is a consistent trend. “There do seem to be more men at Duke at this stage interested in finance than women,” Rasiel said.

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DUU hopes to finally give seniors Breaking down the University’s their p-checks concert in K-Ville socioeconomic demographics Claire Ballentine The Chronicle

the senior class to have actually have a p-checks concert in K-Ville, Soled noted. Last year, rain forced the concert inside to Page Auditorium, and inclement weather the two years prior caused the concert to be cancelled. Soled is hoping the weather this year will be better—the current prediction is 50 degrees and sunny (he’s already checked). But the concert will go on rain or shine, because DUU has already booked Page Auditorium, even though that is not their preferred option. “Page can’t fit all the people, and it’s not in K-Ville which is half the excitement,” Soled said. “It’s hard to have the same high energy.” The concert will feature food trucks, and DUU is also looking for ways to provide free food or drinks. “It’s gonna be a great time,” Soled said. ‘”All students are invited whether you’re tenting or not.”

Starting to get tired of living in a tent while your other friends have real beds? Need a silver lining after another cold night? The annual K-Ville concert—also known as p-checks— might help you out. This year’s concert—which will take place Feb. 3 at 8 p.m.—will feature rappers Wale and Kaiydo. Wale is known for his songs “Bad,” “MY PYT” and “LoveHate Thing.” An up-andcoming rapper, 19-year-old Kaiydo became popular because of his hit “Fruit Punch.” Senior David Soled, president of Duke University Union Campus Concerts, said his committee wanted the concert to feature artists who could create an electric atmosphere in K-Ville. “People have been tenting, they’ve been outside, there’s the game coming up, so you want to bring in an artist who’s really going to get people excited,” he said. “P-checks is like a huge party.” The concert is a main component of p-checks, the final step of the tenting process for students spending nights in K-Ville. Individuals must complete personal checks to earn wristbands so they can enter Cameron Indoor Stadium before the game against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Feb. 9. Because the concert occurs during such a high-energy time on campus, electronic dance music groups, rap or hip hop artists work best, Soled explained. EDM group Cash Cash headlined the Heatwave concert in September, Special to The Chronicle so DUU looked for a rap artist for p-checks. Rapper Wale will headline the annual This p-checks concert is the final chance for p-checks concert Feb. 3.

Bre Bradham The Chronicle If the sentimental ideal of the American Dream hinges on the possibility of upward social mobility, then Duke students may be in for a rude awakening. According to a study recently published in The New York Times, only 1.6 percent of students came from families in the bottom 20 percent of the income distribution and moved up to the top 20 percent later in life. The study also highlighted a significant lack of socioeconomic diversity—in 38 schools, students from the top one percent outnumbered students from the bottom 60 percent. Duke ranked 26th out of the 38 in greatest disparity between number Chronicle File Photo of students from the top one percent and Steve Nowicki noted that private American bottom 60. higher education in general has issues with “I wasn’t surprised because this isn’t really socioeconomic diversity. a Duke problem—it’s an issue in private American higher education in general, 20 percent of the income range, while only 3.9 and we’ve known this for a while,” said percent were from the bottom 20 percent. Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for Duke was grouped with the eight Ivy undergraduate education. “To put it in the League institutions, the University of stark terms of comparing the one percent to Chicago, Stanford University and the the 60 percent sort of brings it into focus, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a that is a jarring realization.” top-tier comparison group. Duke had the The study analyzed millions of anonymous third-highest number of families who made tax records to gather the socioeconomic data above $630,000 and struck the middle for students in the Class of 2013 and compare ground in regards to students who hail from it to the current status of students from the the top 20 percent, having the sixth highest classes of 2002 to 2004 in order to see how the number of families in this top quintile. students fare later in life. “To get to the very top is hard. The question The median family income for Duke is, are you going up? Are you going into a solid, students from the Class of 2013 was $186,700. Nearly 70 percent of students were in the top See SOCIOECONOMIC on Page 4

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BSA from page 1 to improve the lives of all students through the advancement of black students. However, he also noted that the role of BSA is different each year because of the ever-changing circumstances of the black community at Duke. To chronicle the whole history of BSA would be too immense a task, but several key moments mark its influence on the University. Until 1967, student organizations, faculty and administrators—including then-President Douglas Knight— were members of the Hope Valley Country Club, a segregated facility. In response, AAS embarked on a student-led “studyin” that November in an attempt to prevent the University community from patronizing such facilities. “It is one thing for the Administration of this institution to say that we accept our Negro students here at the University on the same basis that we do other students, and quite another to smack us in the face by indicating in your private lives that you will not treat Negroes equally with others,” wrote AAS students in an open letter in The Chronicle. “The two are directly contradictory

and must be considered irreconcilable.” Three days later, the University amended its policies to prohibit the use of segregated facilities. In 1969, approximately 75 AAS students occupied the Allen Building, renaming it “The Malcolm X Liberation School.” The group had 13 demands, which included an African American studies program, a black dormitory and improved working conditions for University staff. The takeover ended several hours after it began. Students outside the building, who were there in support of their black peers, were met with police action and were tear gassed. None of the students involved in the protest were expelled, but many were put on probation. Administrators met some of the students’ demands, though there was ongoing debate about whether the response was adequate. “It was struggle that brought the concessions—not any of Knight’s bull about ‘rational discourse,’” one AAS document stated. “Without a building occupation, without students fighting cops, without a partially successful strike, without a massive, potentially militant march—and, especially, without a threat of more militant struggle in the future—this victory would never have been won. The administration/trustees

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upper-middle class job? I mean, I’ll never be in the one percent,” Nowicki joked. Although the study showed that Duke alumni had the fourth highest income at a median of $87,500, the study also found that there is a large discrepancy between women’s and men’s median income. For Duke’s male graduates, the median income at age 34 is $107,800—almost 1.5 times higher than that of the median income for females at $72,300. This difference was the greatest among peer institutions. The University of Chicago was on the opposite end of the spectrum, with only a $14,800 difference. One population the study did not measure was international students, which make up 14 percent of Duke’s undergraduate population. At Duke, international students who need financial assistance are subject to a different admissions process than those who do not need the University’s aid. “The international students who ask for aid were put in a highly competitive pool, and only like one percent of them got in,” Nowicki said. “We only had so much aid to give them, so it was very much need-aware.” Although the University is limited in the financial aid it can offer to international students, Nowicki highlighted a number of programs that Duke utilizes to combat the socioeconomic gap domestically. The University recently joined the nonprofit Questbridge and introduced the Washington Duke Scholars program, which Nowicki said he expects to facilitate a “big uptake” in the number of first-generation low income students. “The [study’s] findings don’t mean we don’t have a significant population of students receiving financial aid, many of whom are low income students,” wrote Alison Rabil, assistant vice provost and director of financial aid, in an email. “About half our population receives some kind of need-based assistance at Duke, and if you include athletic and merit aid more than half our population receives funding from the University to attend.” Nowicki noted that the systemic nature of socioeconomic disparities—which he noted stems from issues in the K-12 education system—limits the ability of the University to address it. “It isn’t as though Duke is saying, ‘Hey, let’s get these wealthy kids in here and to heck with the rest of them.’ It’s a consequence of the overall effect of socioeconomic disparity on higher education—which is an issue,” said Nowicki. “I’m not saying that we are off the hook. We have to deal with that.” Correction The following quote from Monday’s article “Duke heads to D.C. to participate in Trump’s inauguration, Women’s March on Washington” was misattributed to Jake Chasan: “While coming from different identities and perspectives, they all shared a beautiful vision of hope and pride in their country. A lot of them said this was the first time they had a politician who truly stood up for them.” The quote should have been attributed to Colin Duffy. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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On Dec. 19, 2016, Camila Cabello left Fifth Harmony. The world was– as the kids are saying–“shook” by the news. “How could Camila leave the most popular girl group in the world?” people cried. “Is the band through?” “Are they going to change their name to Fourth Harmony now?” The latter two questions are easy to answer. Fifth Harmony will continue as Fifth Harmony, despite missing their most famous member. In all likelihood, they will release one more album. Maybe it will be slightly hollow, a desperate attempt to capture the group at its full majesty. Whatever the case, after its release, Normani Kordei, Dinah Jane Hansen, Ally Brooke, and Lauren Jauregui will scatter to the corners of the Earth to craft their own solo material. As for Cabello—well, that’s the fun part. Going solo is a time-honored tradition that many major bands and singing groups throughout history have had to endure. Phil Collins and Genesis. Justin Timberlake and N’Sync. Mark Wahlberg and New Kids on the Block. Zayn and One Direction. It is a tale as old as pop itself, and I’m sure in three years we will all be distraught when Calum leaves 5 Seconds of Summer or Mystery leaves BoyzWhoLike2Dance. The culture of celebrity primes us to be upset by this upending of the status quo. Just two years ago, Zayn Malik’s departure from One Direction left a fan base reeling, grasping for stability from a band they never thought would dissolve. But they always do. While I was researching this note, I couldn’t find a boy band or girl group that had lasted more than ten years with their original lineup fully intact. We should be conditioned to expect this at a certain point, yet so many of us aren’t. Camila Cabello knew that girl groups

weren’t meant to last, and Cabello knew she was a star. So far, she is the only current or former member of Fifth Harmony with two Top 20 hits to her name outside of the group (the Shawn Mendes duet “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and the Machine Gun Kelly-featuring smash “Bad Things”), and she usually received the prime “center spot” in all of Fifth Harmony’s live performances. Here’s a hot take—Camila Cabello isn’t the best singer in Fifth Harmony. In fact, she might be the worst. Cabello has a Grande-esque range, but her timbre is pinched and nasal compared to the warm tones of the rest of the group. However, this is to her credit and benefit. You can’t pick the other four vocalists’ voices out

editor’s note of a lineup, but you always can tell when Cabello is singing. Thus, Cabello is primed for her own breakout path. Going solo is an exciting time for an artist recently freed from the confines of a group, a time where one can establish oneself as a new pop vanguard or flame out into mediocre chart placement and supporting gigs for bigger stars. The floor for this phenomenon is fairly low. Take Nicole Scherzinger. The former star of The Pussycat Dolls, Scherzinger struck out in the early 2010s in search of chartconquering success, only to bottom out with a series of minor hits in the UK and getting fired from judging the low-rated

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US version of “The X Factor.” If the floor is low, the ceiling is astronomically high. Beyoncé left Destiny’s Child, and now she is arguably the most famous singer in the world, a cultural iconoclast in every sense of the word. Cabello will not be a Beyoncé, nor will she stoop to the level of Nicole Scherzinger. She’ll probably fall somewhere in that vast middle alongside Cheryl Cole, Posh Spice, Zayn, or any of the other former One Direction members. Her level of success will depend on the musical direction she takes. If she leans in too hard into building a base and pleasing former Fifth Harmony fans, she runs the risk of becoming indistinguishable from her former group. She would be solo in name but not in spirit. On the other hand, going too far in a different musical direction would be weird but alienating to that core base. Weird isn’t necessarily bad—mainstream pop has gotten a little staid the past few years—but it certainly wouldn’t provide the level of mainstream success she certainly craves. Ultimately, the onus to make or break an artist falls on us as fans. Going solo is especially tricky for any artist because they come with the burden of preexisting expectations. Cabello’s departure has set herself up for a public reckoning of sorts. Her audiences wants her to triumph, while her detractors need her to fail as justification that Fifth Harmony was perfect just the way it was. I don’t envy Cabello. Even though she’s already a star, the next few months will be crucial to her success as an artist. By the end of the year, we will be able to see whether her big gambit for autonomy ends up creating the next big pop star or a legendary bust.

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K-Ville residents express variety of reasons for tenting Grace Peterson The Chronicle

In the weeks leading up to the Duke vs. Carolina game, hundreds of Duke students forgo sleeping in their cozy dorm beds in favor of taking up residence in the tent village affectionately known as K-Ville. To an outsider, and even to some Duke students, such a sacrifice seems absurd. Yet to others, tenting is a small price to pay for the glory of experiencing the Carolina game in person. Who are the so-called “Crazies” that are willing to give up their valuable time to sit in K-Ville during the day and voluntarily wake up at all hours of the night for tent checks? To try to answer this question, we surveyed this years’ crop of K-Ville residents to learn about their stories and what motivated them to tent. The increase in numbers of people wanting to tent this year could be due to the fact that the tenting season is shorter and milder this year than in years past; however, an overeager freshman class coupled with seniors attempting a “last hurrah” before graduation could also have something to do with it. In an attempt to narrow down the reasons for the unprecedented number of tenters this year, I asked 14 randomly selected tent groups (out of a total of 70 black tents) about the ages of their members. Contrary to expectations, my sample revealed that the classes are

relatively equally represented, and surprisingly, juniors are the most abundant, while seniors are the least common. Of the 168 tenters included in the sur vey, 24% are freshmen, 26% sophomores, 32% juniors and 18% seniors. Equally diverse are tenters’ motives for tenting. Certain K-Ville residents simply love basketball and would do practically anything to get into the Carolina game. Freshman Jeremy Liang, commented, “I’m a huge basketball fan, so when I was applying to Duke, [tenting] was something that really attracted me.” Beyond a love of basketball, however, the majority of K-Ville residents said they chose to tent largely for the community and friendships that come from spending long days and chilly nights in a tent together. When asked about her decision to tent, junior and second-time tenter Julia Myhre commented, “It’s a combination of the fun of being able to tent with friends while also getting plugged back into community after being abroad.” Freshman Hannah Palczuk similarly recognized tenting as a great time to build new relationships. “Tenting definitely strengthens friendship,” she said. “Some of the people in my tent were just acquaintances, and there were 2 guys I didn’t know at all. Already a week into tenting, we’re becoming closer friends.”

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This closeness is illustrated in the frequency of tenters’ visits to K-Ville, even when they aren’t required to be there. Though each tenter has specified “tent shifts” when they must be in K-Ville, many students choose to hang out in their tents even when there are already enough members gathered to pass a tent check. For example, freshman Hannah Humayun commented that for her and her tent-mates, “we’re all here all the time, even when we’re not on shift.” While some students are motivated by their pure love of basketball or a desire to build relationships, others view tenting

as an informal graduation requirement. Sophomore Madi Norton, who is living in K-Ville for the second time, told me part of her decision to tent stemmed from a need to participate in the quintessential Duke experience. “[Tenting is] almost a responsibility for Duke students,” Norton said. Like Norton, freshman Ivy Cannon felt a responsibility to tent, especially considering her family background. Her parents, who are both Duke alumni, tented for 4 years each during their time as students. “My parents tented in the ‘80’s See K-VILLE on Page 10

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Recess reviews: Martin Scorsese’s new film ‘Silence’ Nina Wilder The Chronicle Martin Scorsese isn’t the kind of director whose repertoire of films beckons the label ‘religious.’ Considering his most popular works are character studies of morally bankrupted and deeply flawed men (“Taxi Driver,” “Goodfellas” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” come to mind), it must strike the casual film-watcher as odd that “Silence,” Scorsese’s most recent film, is a veneration of Christianity and its practices. But Scorsese, a lapsed Roman Catholic who aspired to priesthood in his adolescence, has always held a deep affinity for religion, and “Silence” is his homage to the predecessors of his faith. “Silence,” adapted from a 1966 novel of the same name by Shosaku Endo, follows two 17th-century Jesuit priests, Father Rodrigues (Andrew Gar field) and Father Garupe (Adam Driver) of Portugal, as they traverse through feudal Japan to locate their missing mentor, Father Ferreira (Liam Neeson). Endowed solely with the knowledge that Ferreira has renounced his faith after repeated subjections to torture by the Japanese government, Rodrigues and Garupe are propelled by their own disbelief at Ferreira’s situation to seek answers for his apostasy.

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons ‘Silence’ follows two 17th-century Jesuit priests as they try to locate their missing mentor.

Guiding the two Jesuits through the foreign terrain is Kichijiro (Yosuke Kubozuka), a Japanese fisherman who lost his family to the antiChristian massacres per formed by the government. When Rodrigues and Garupe arrive in a small village called Tomogi, they witness firsthand the oppressive nature of the Tokugawa shogunate . Christianity, brought to Japan in 1549 by Catholic priests, has been outlawed, its adherents violently and dogmatically persecuted. As such, the Japanese Christians must practice their faith in secret, prayers whispered surreptitiously and crosses carefully

tucked away. It is an unbearable burden wrought onto the shoulders of the Japanese Christians, and Rodrigues struggles to understand how God could allow their existence to be spent in silent suffering. S c o r s e s e ’s camera captures sweeping birds-eye shots of the Japanese thickets and wide angles of the swelling, foamy sea, the p e r s i s t e n c e o f G o d ’s g a z e u p o n h i s own handiwork obvious. The nononsense direction is reminiscent of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and an ostensible departure from S c o r s e s e ’s p r e v i o u s w o r k s – l e n g t h y Steadicam shots and fast-paced editing have no place in such a vast,

d a r k t a l e o f s p i r i t u a l i t y. P e rh a p s t h i s i s w h y R o d r i g u e s ’s i n s i s t e n c e that Christianity can take root in the “swamp of Japan” falls flat w h e n j u x t a p o s e d w i t h S c o r s e s e ’s forceful depiction of nature in “Silence.” What place does the Christian God have in a country where the sea is an unrelenting t h r e a t a n d t h e s o i l ’s a b i l i t y t o y i e l d c r o p s i s u n r e l i a b l e ? To p l a c e o n e ’s faith in anything but the tangible is wearying and difficult, and the missionaries’ determination to ascertain Christianity as more important than survival is selfish at best. “Silence” chiefly uses Father Rodrigues as a proxy for these questions of faith which have certainly plagued humans since the dawn of our consciousness of God. Why are certain lives spent in torment while others remain largely untouched by strife? Is an outward abandonment of faith for the sake of self-perseverance an unforgivable sin or is martyrdom the worst crime a Christian can commit? The lack of communication between God and Rodrigues fuels the latter’s mounting disillusionment with his faith, Rodrigues musing that he is perhaps “praying to silence” instead of a benevolent being. Still, though, See “SILENCE” on Page 10

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Recess reviews: ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ Brooklyn Bass The Chronicle Though viewers are warned with ever y episode to discontinue watching the series, Netflix’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” compels audiences to power through the eight-episode season with excitement. First told by novelist Daniel Handler under the pen name Lemony Snicket, the series tells the tragic stor y of the clever Baudelaire orphans, Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes), and Sunny (Presley Smith). Their stor y begins after their parents’ tragic death and grows into a dark chase for sur vival as the Baudelaires dodge the villainous schemes of Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris), a crusty man bent on acquiring the Baudelaire fortune by any means necessar y. The Netflix series’ structure is the most praise-worthy aspect of the show. It demonstrates a commitment to maintaining the integrity of the best-selling novels. For this reason, readers of the series are more likely to appreciate the on screen adaptation. Each novel is represented in the series with two episodes and each episode master fully mirrors Handler’s written work with enjoyable guest star per formances of some of Hollywood’s underrated gems—like Alfre Woodard as Aunt Josephine and Aasif Mandvi as Uncle Monty. Lesser known actors such as K. Todd Freeman playing Mr. Poe are refreshingly new and breathe life into characters many young adults grew up reading. Despite being one of the few

novel-to-screen adaptations to successfully please readers, the series fails to employ the narrator appropriately throughout the show’s first season. The narrator, Lemony Snicket (Patrick Warburton), often distracts from the story and interrupts provoking scenes with

lackluster commentary meant to make the audience laugh but instead has them wishing that the story would continue without Snicket completely. Perhaps, S n i c k e t ’s p r e s e n c e w o u l d be best as an occasional voice-over in season two. Notwithstanding Snicket’s irritating

existence in the show, “A Series of Unfortunate Events” is a Netflix family favorite destined for a long run on computer screens. It is staying true to the original stor y that will keep the series flourishing—hopefully—for years to come.

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ follows the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans as they are placed in the care of Count Olaf.

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Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s production of “Violet,” a musical set in the Civil Rights-era South that takes on themes of race, gender and politics, opened last Thursday—the night before an inauguration ceremony that capped off an election season marked by racism and sexism. The significance of this timing was not lost on director Zack F o w l e r, Tr i n i t y ‘ 1 6 . D u r i n g t h e first week of rehearsals back in N o v e m b e r, h e r e m i n d e d t h e c a s t that the musical takes place within months of the 1964 burning of a black church in Mississippi that presaged the infamous murder of three civil rights workers. He asked if anyone could name the last instance of a racially-motivated church burning. As it turns out, it was that week, referring to the November burning of a Mississippi church. “So fifty years later, events were no different,” Fowler said. Bringing out those modern parallels in the musical—which premiered off-Broadway in 1997 as an adaptation of Doris Betts’ short story “The Ugliest Pilgrim”—was a constant challenge for Fowler and the rest of the student-run theater group. “We’re dealing with two ver y different times, and yet there’s so many common threads, and it’s hard to make those connections,” producer Tori Trimm said. “[We]’ve stayed true to the stor y while, at the same time, bringing more out of it than I would have expected after our first read-through.” The stor y follows Violet, a young, white woman from the isolated town of Spruce Pine, N.C., played by sophomore Bekah Wellons. A facial disfigurement, by way of an axe-inflicted wound the audience

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never actually sees, drives Violet’s cross-countr y quest for a new face and a new identity. She hops on a Greyhound bus for Tulsa, O.K., hoping to meet a miracle-working televangelist—the only person, she is convinced, who can rid her of her scar. Along the way she develops relationships with two soldiers: Flick, played by senior Alex Brunson, whose experience as a black man in the South lends a voice of maturity to Violet’s naive struggles with appearance, and Monty, played by Ben Allen, Trinity ‘16, whose swaggering arrogance belies his vulnerability. Interspersed with the

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travel scenes are vignettes from Violet’s childhood, which shed light on her complicated relationship with her father and reflect the nonlinear stor ytelling of Betts’ original text. Flick deals more subtly with Violet than does Monty, exchanging glances where his loudmouthed companion trades barbs, displaying genuine acts of kindness where his friend is anything but. Thus, Violet’s respective relationships with the two men develop equally, if differently. But inevitably, their interactions are not untainted by race: Despite having a higher rank than Monty, Flick, at least initially, gets less respect from Violet. As the characters make their way from Spruce Pine to Nashville to Memphis and beyond, the music reflects their surroundings, running the gamut from typical show tunes to countr y swing to Holy-Ghost-summoning gospel. For music director Adam Beskind, the pit musicians and the actors, this wide variety presented a challenge, but all agreed that it was a unique feature of the musical. “That’s something I’ve really latched onto in the show—the power of music to move the audience even though it comes from different genres, even though it takes place in a different location geographically,” Brunson said. “It’s just as enjoyable and does just as much to advance the plot despite, or perhaps because of, the diversity.” Early on in the production, Hoof ‘n’ Horn had the opportunity to speak with Ilana Ransom Toeplitz, assistant director of the original 2014 Broadway production of “Violet.” Told to form their own opinions on the script, the cast and crew found they in fact had some problems with it. To them, the original production did not say enough when it came to issues of race and gender. “If someone says, ‘take your own spin,’ and then you disagree with

what they say, that’s a good thing,” Fowler said. This incarnation of “Violet,” t h e n , i s v e r y m u c h H o o f ‘ n ’ H o r n ’s own. Of course, the production remains true to the original script—law forbids otherwise— but elements as obvious as casting choices and as minute as vocal intonations have helped bring out the depth in a musical that originally wrote in only two characters of color despite purporting to tackle sensitive social issues. The idea of intentionalism, that ever y message would be ver y purposefully said or left unsaid, no detail or production choice an accident, drove their approach to the production. “There’s an easy narrative to tell here and there’s a hard narrative to tell,” Fowler said. “The easy narrative is Flick and Violet connect over the fact that their experiences are tied by their appearances. … The harder narrative to tell is what we’ve really been working for months on, which is, what does it look like to deal with self-worth that derives from appearance? What does it look like to look for validation in faith, or to look for validation in family histor y? What does it look like to deser ve or not deser ve that validation?” By per forming the musical in the intimate Sheafer Theater, Hoof ‘n’ Horn invites the audience to discuss these narratives. After Sunday’s show, Fowler directed a short “talkback” session where he opened the floor to audience members to reflect on the musical’s themes. In its 80th season, Hoof ‘n’ Horn delivers a stor y of an era when injustice and prejudice were all too common—and whose messages remain just as relevant today. In its second week, “Violet” runs Jan. 26-28 at 8:00 p.m. and Jan. 29 at 2:00 p.m. in Sheafer Theater. Tickets are $10 for students and seniors and $15 at regular price and can be purchased online at tickets.duke.edu.

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K-VILLE from page 7 when [tenting] first was a thing,” Cannon said. “I’ve been hearing about tenting my whole life, so I definitely wanted to tent when I was here.” For many students, this is a particularly attractive year to check this special experience off their Duke bucket list. Sophomore Howard Huang and freshmen Hannah Humayun and Hannah Palczuk selected this year in part because the Carolina game comes less than a month after the start of the semester compared to the 7-week duration of tenting season last year and next year. In addition to the abbreviated tenting season, Freshman Ivy Cannon observed that the unusually warm weather

has made hanging out around the tent more enjoyable and night tent shifts less brutal. Despite the favorable tenting conditions, the team has had some setbacks this season. However, all tenters were positive and unswayed by the possibility of a loss against Chapel Hill. “I think tenting is about supporting the team, whether they’re good or bad,” said senior Kelsey Evezich, who is tenting for the third time. Sophomore Thomas Vincent, a second time tenter, had a similar perspective. “Of course we want to win, but it’s about the journey,” he said. “I don’t think ver y many people will regret tenting, no matter what the outcome is.”

Chris Teufel | The Chronicle This K-Ville season stands out due to the fact that the tenting period is shorter and warmer than usual.

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“SILENCE” from page 8 to that of the Jesus–to Rodrigues, the trials of faith and persecution that he endures are not dissimilar to the tribulations that God’s son had to withstand. It’s in this internal struggle of godliness that Rodrigues becomes a recognizable Scorsese character, perhaps to a fault. As his purpose in Japan loses its clarity and his moral compass skews further, the priest’s attempts to push Christianity feel desperate and forced. The Japanese Inquisitor (Issey Ogata), whose job is to rid Japan of Christianity, is an arguably more interesting and persuasive character than the weak-willed Rodrigues. The Inquisitor doesn’t hesitate to accuse Rodrigues of egotistically tr ying to exemplify Jesus, pointing out that the price for his glor y in ser ving God is the suffering of the Japanese Christians. As long as he holds fast to his faith and refuses to renounce the church in pursuit of converts, the Japanese Christians will continue to be slaughtered in hordes. The film, which sprawls over an indulgent two-hour and 40-minute runtime, agonizes over the purpose of religion and the absence of God in his most-needed moments, painting a difficult but often lackluster portrait of spirituality. More questions are posed by “Silence” than answered, but it’s feasible that the complex existence of faith has more room for discourse than sweeping resolutions. Still, “Silence” is Scorsese’s lovingly imper fect homage to the faith that shaped him, a passion project that never claims to be anything more.

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Dennis Smith Jr. closes out passive Blue Devils to cap Duke collapse Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle As freshman sensation Dennis Smith Jr. corralled the ball following Jayson Tatum’s game-ending turnover, the guard raced up court and took flight for an exclamation mark on a night in which he ripped Duke’s heart out of its chest. “I knew it didn’t count. I knew it had no chance of counting, but it was just a statement,” Smith Jr. said. The N.C. State phenom’s statement could be one of many. It could be that a message that the Wolfpack freshman—one the Blue Devils heavily recruited but failed to ink on signing day—is one of the most exciting talents in college basketball this season. It could be that an N.C. State team that has underwhelmed to date could be ready to take off as the Wolfpack begin the backstretch of their conference schedule. But above all, the biggest takeaway from Smith Jr.’s emphatic slam was that the Wolfpack and their leader had the killer instinct Monday—and the Blue Devils didn’t. Duke has been lauded for its ability to go on spurts and ignite Cameron Indoor Stadium when locked in tight games. The Blue Devils pulled away from Michigan State earlier this season and Miami Saturday on the back of runs that nearly left the arena shaking. But after looking poised to do the same thing Monday night with a 20-8 run to build a nine-point second-half lead, Duke got complacent and showed some of the problems that have turned the preseason No. 1 team into a squad that is struggling to get above .500 in ACC play. “I think we just kind of laid back. We weren’t as energetic as we could’ve been and I think we kind of played in spurts,” freshman Frank Jackson said. “It wasn’t a full effort game. We have to learn how to finish and play

Izzi Clark | The Chronicle The Blue Devils still have five top-15 opponents left in ACC play and already have four conference losses.

the whole 40 minutes.” As Smith took charge and scored or assisted on N.C. State’s last six field goals in the final 8:38, the Blue Devils missed one open shot after another. As was the case in losses against Florida State and Louisville, Duke looked rattled, and this time, even co-captain Amile Jefferson and the Cameron Crazies could not rescue the Blue Devils. Although there are a handful of moments the Blue Devils can point to where they failed to put away their opponent, Duke will be especially kicking itself that it failed to inch closer as Smith Jr. struggled down the stretch from the foul line and the Wolfpack continued to keep the Blue Devils in the game. For Tatum, there were four misses near the hoop that left him and his team frustrated. For Allen, there were a handful of uncontested

3-pointers that clanked off the rim as he finished 1-of-9 from beyond the arc. “We got good looks in that stretch. We got some wide-open threes with no one near us, we got some drives to the basket,” interim head coach Jeff Capel said. “I thought we got some clean looks there in that stretch.” The problem for Duke against the Wolfpack wasn’t so much execution as it was an inability to make the big play when it counted most. Unlike Smith Jr. with the Wolfpack, Duke has yet to find its primary option for late-game buckets. The Blue Devil offense, which flourished in the first half with 12 assists on 17 made shots, ran through Tatum, who had his moments and scored 11 points while playing the entire See KILLER INSTINCT on Page 13

ACC announces Duke’s 2017 schedule The Chronicle A slow start to the 2016 season cost the Blue Devils a shot at a fifth straight bowl appearance, and Duke now knows which opponents will stand between head coach David Cutcliffe’s team and the postseason in 2017. The ACC released the 2017 schedule Tuesday, filling in the remaining gaps in the Blue Devils’ schedule. Duke will take on nine teams that made bowl games last season, with three of those contests coming away from Wallace Wade Stadium. Coming off a 4-8 campaign, the

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Spice up the schedule As ESPN cut to a commercial following another Matt Jones triple in Duke’s 20-0 second-half run against Miami Saturday, the network made sure to promote the titanic showdown we will be treated to this weekend when No. 2 Kansas travels to Rupp Arena to take on No. 4 Kentucky. A l t h o u g h commentators Jay Bilas and Dan Shulman likely harped on the matchup between the Wildcats’ freshman backcourt and the Jayhawks’ veteran guards a handful of times during the night, the buildup was necessary since the clash between two of the sport’s bluebloods promises to captivate college basketball fans. The top-five tilt will be the main course in a Big 12/SEC Challenge that looks poised to offer up a platter of unappetizing snacks this go-around. But despite the lack of marquee matchups in this year’s edition, the merits of scheduling nonconference games this late into the season should be considered. The idea to step out of conference play with the NCAA tournament on the horizon is not a completely new one. For 11 years, ESPN ran a full-day event known as BracketBusters—which pitted the top teams from non-Power Five conferences against one another before being discontinued after the 2012-13 edition. College basketball would be wise to reintroduce the late-season matchups and even look to spread the nonconference tilts to the likes of the ACC, Pac 12 and Big East. For teams in underachieving conferences, the games

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Blue Devils will open the season Sept. 2 against FCS opponent N.C. Central before two challenging nonconference games. Duke will host Northwestern in Week 2—the Wildcats knocked off the Blue Devils in 2015 and 2016—before taking on Big 12 foe Baylor at Wallace Wade Stadium Sept. 16. The Bears, known for their highoctane passing game, have logged seven consecutive seven-win seasons and won at least 10 games from 20132015 before enduring a difficult 2016 season defined by an off-the-field sexual assault scandal. Duke’s defense will get another test when the Blue Devils host Florida State Oct. 14. Led by star quarterback Deondre

Francois, the Seminoles are expected to be a national title contender once again under head coach Jimbo Fisher. Cutcliffe’s squad will look to avenge three of its deflating road losses from 2016 when it hosts Coastal Division foes Georgia Tech, Miami and Pittsburgh. The Hurricanes and Panthers blew out the Blue Devils, and the Yellow Jackets pulled out a three-point win with their triple-option offense. Duke will take on Georgia Tech at home Nov. 18, Miami at home Sept. 29, and Pittsburgh at home Oct. 21. The contest with the Hurricanes will be a Friday night game. See FOOTBALL on Page 13

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BRODHEAD from page 1 the University,” Brodhead said. “The choice for him was was he or was he not fundamentally an educator? A coach in the NBA isn’t an educator. A coach in college is. That actually began a good understanding. I consider Mike a friend. We have good talks. I have a world of respect for him.” ‘Something I really learned at Duke’ After 32 years as a professor and dean at Yale, where he also received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D., Brodhead’s decision to transition to Duke raised concerns to leaders in Blue Devil athletics. Would a leading scholar in American literature understand how sports, particularly men’s basketball, fit into Duke’s culture? “I think people were worried about him, that he had spent his whole life at Yale, that he would try to make Duke Yale,” Krzyzewski said. “What he’s done instead—I think the greatest thing he’s done was keep Duke unique. He has helped Duke become even more unique and develop its own personality during a period of immense growth and also a period when we had a very difficult situation here [with lacrosse]. I applaud him for that. It was one of the great leadership things that I’ve seen to adapt to this environment, and not just adapt, but to flourish in it.” John Burness, former senior vice president for government affairs and public relations, noted that such concerns are not unique. “I think when [former president Nan] Keohane came, it was, ‘Oh, a woman from Wellesley,’ there was some of that then,” Burness said. “[That sentiment] is not uncommon whenever a new president comes to Duke, at least over the past 25 to 30 years

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Chronicle File Photo Brodhead traveled with the team to the White House in August 2015 after the Blue Devils captured their fifth national championship.

as Duke has risen so rapidly in the ranks to be one of the great academic institutions.” Burness added that Keohane used to refer to the University’s motto as “Eruditio et Basketballio” rather than “Eruditio et Religio”. Despite the concerns, Brodhead had actually been a Duke fan since he started watching the NCAA tournament with interest in the early 1990s. As Grant Hill and company won the program’s first two national championships in 1991 and 1992, Brodhead’s interest in college basketball grew. With athletics in his purview as dean for 11 years at Yale and Hill’s parents Calvin—who was a standout Yale and NFL football player—and Janet as good friends, Brodhead said he actually thought he had pretty good understanding of men’s basketball fanaticism when he arrived at Duke. Still, there were bound to be new experiences as the face of a university that had been to 14 Final Fours before he arrived. One of those came when the Blue Devils made their first Final Four during Brodhead’s tenure in 2010, eventually cutting down the nets for their fourth national championship. “I had never been to Indianapolis. I had been to a Final Four unhappily when we were eliminated by [Connecticut] the spring I was coming in as president [in 2004],” Brodhead said. “When you go to the Final Four, if you’re lucky, there’s one game, then there’s a second game. But there’s a very long interval between them. What are you supposed to do with yourself? We ransacked guide books to fill our time. I went to Butler. I called on the president of Butler that year, that was kind of fun.”

“So we went, we beat West Virginia, I would say we thrashed them, but that doesn’t prove anything. And then you’re going to play this upstart team [in Butler]. It was just incredible. I spent that entire evening in a state of transport, elation, amazing. When you win these games, I’ve never found it possible to go to bed before about 5 [o’clock] in the morning after those games. You’re just too excited about it.” Although he previously understood the role athletics can play in educating students at a university, Brodhead’s appreciation for the joy that comes with winning has grown since his arrival in Durham. “I’m a scholar. I’m a man of intellect. I’m an educator. I’m never for a moment going to lose sight of the main thing at universities,” Brodhead said. “Nevertheless, the pleasure that can be taken through athletic events is something I really learned at Duke. Not only there, but if I can remember being in Indianapolis in 2010. What were the chances? Being in Indianapolis in 2015 [for the team’s fifth national championship]—it’s just a form of ecstasy when you win these things.” ‘Not my favorite feature’ Brodhead said the 2009-10 national championship team was one of his favorites because he got to watch four-year players grow—the main reason he prefers college sports to watching professional contests. But the past several years have seen that philosophy tested as the numbers of one-and-done prospects and transfers have increased steadily.

“I can remember the first time I saw [2010 national champions] Nolan Smith and Jon Scheyer play,” Brodhead said. “They were very young. They got way better over the course of their careers, and then they won the national championship. And now I still have them around [as assistant coaches]. Now they can be my pals. I go places and we can all hang out and talk about things.” Since 2011, Duke has had seven players leave school early for the NBA Draft starting with Kyrie Irving. The Blue Devils brought in several potential one-and-done prospects in the Class of 2016 and have already received commitments from multiple high school seniors who are almost certainly eyeing the 2018 NBA Draft. Duke and Kentucky have set themselves apart at the top of men’s basketball recruiting, but Duke’s academic reputation is seemingly at odds with bringing in a high number of one-and-done talents. “It’s not my favorite feature, and if I were a coach, it would be my least favorite feature,” Brodhead said. “In the days when you got to nurture people’s growth over four years, you had experience on your team. We have some experience on our team now, but it used to be you had a few newbies and a lot of experienced people. Now the balance has shifted.” “I still would say the fact that our players have left for the pros have finished the year of study before they did so is immensely meaningful to me. The fact that Kyrie came back and did some more course work, you don’t hear about that at schools I will not name. You don’t.” After leaving Duke following his 2010-11 freshman season, Irving pledged to finish his degree in five years. But since becoming one of the NBA’s brightest stars, he has changed course, though to Brodhead’s point Irving and several former Blue Devils have continued working toward their degrees. “In this era of one-and-done, I’ve had really good talks with President Brodhead. One is that I want to make sure that people know that we’re still recruiting the same Duke kid that we’ve recruited 40 years ago,” Krzyzewski said. “They have to be talented on the court, talented off the court and be good guys. It’s just that some of them are going early. The thing that Dr. Brodhead always talks about is that they finish up.” “In other words, if a kid is going one-anddone, a lot of kids don’t even finish up their schooling that semester. All of our guys have done that, they’ve done it well and a lot of them have continued their education, so I See BRODHEAD on Page 12

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heavyweights continuing to beat up on one another, so much of what differentiates the teams on the seed lines in March would provide a final chance to build a could be nonconference victories. resume and earn a potential at-large bid. A late January road win against a team For other teams, the matchups would in contention for a No. 1 seed would stick provide a high level of entertainment for better for Virginia than anything Duke has fans—especially when two of the premier accomplished so far this season. And with programs—in the sport square off, and the Cavaliers and Blue Devils potentially could help give clarity to the annoying jostling for seeding in March, Duke fans debates about which conference is the might want to tune in this weekend to see nation’s best. how Virginia fares. The ACC had its moment in late Now figuring out the logistics of such November during the ACC/Big Ten unconventional games is certainly not Challenge, which for most people is easy. Playing within conferences often something that has thankfully been erased means shorter travel distances and more from their memories. As has been the case familiarity for coaching staffs to visiting with the Champions Classic, early-season arenas and facilities. Determining the games tend to be sloppy, turnover-filled matchups and which team will host the slugfests in which one or even both teams contest a year in advance is certainly have yet to find their true identity. complicated and it’s almost guaranteed Compare that to Saturday’s contest that one program would have a gripe with between two teams who have established the situation. go-to scorers and have gone to battle But it’s 2017 and airplanes still in nail-biting victories, and it’s easy to exist—it seems far-fetched to believe expect a higher level of play. As teams that the likes of Duke or North Carolina grow accustomed to the characteristics couldn’t work out a way to play a of their conference, the next week or marquee nonconference game that two is the perfect time expose them could draw all eyes to their teams. Even to different styles that they could see in a down year, a loss in a high-profile come NCAA tournament time. nonconference game could become a But lost in the shuffle of the Wildcats positive in the recruiting cycle as teams and Jayhawks’ matchup is another that normally play on the East Coast tantalizing contest this weekend between could expand the regions in which they No. 12 Virginia and top-ranked Villanova. target high school prospects. Although watching the Cavalier offense is As the sports world prepares for the as entertaining as watching concrete dry, first weekend without a meaningful the game could help cement the ACC’s football game since early August, college dominance and depth this season. basketball will certainly be front and A win this weekend for Virginia could center. But it could have even more New York Syndication Sales Corporation give the The Cavaliers theTimes resume-defining attention and grab an even larger 620 Eighth NewACC York, N.Y. 10018 if it put more of its best teams win that separates them Avenue, from their audience For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 competitors. For With theWednesday, conference’s on display Release January 25, 2017 late in the season. For Release Tuesday, January 24, 2017

KILLER INSTINCT from page 11 FOOTBALL from page 11 second half. But Duke’s peripheral weapons left a lot to be desired as the team’s offense stagnated like it did in a near-collapse against Boston College a few weeks ago. “We can’t be a young team and think that the game is over,” sophomore Luke Kennard said. “We have to stay the course of what we’ve been doing and just do that.” Although the team’s inability to jell early in the season due to injuries has become the go-to excuse for the team’s current struggles, the Blue Devils’ inability to play cohesively for long stretches goes far beyond their youth or October adversity. Allen and Kennard—who came off the bench against the Wolfpack—remained quiet down the stretch when Duke needed a basket the most. Jefferson has yet to appear like himself following his return from a right-foot bone bruise, leaving senior Matt Jones—who shot only 1-of-6 in the second half himself— as the only upperclassman that has pulled his weight in the past week. The Blue Devils came into their twogame home swing against Miami and N.C. State looking to right the ship and build momentum in what has already been a rollercoaster season. Instead, Duke finds itself with more questions than answers and in need of a serious look in the mirror with stiff ACC challenges still ahead. As Tatum sat with a sullen face in front of his locker room rehashing the final sequence of the game, the freshman harped on his failure to push the ball ahead as time expired. But in the coming weeks, it will be the Blue Devil team that needs to push ahead—this time with the aggressive mentality Smith Jr. showed them Monday night.

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One of the surprises in the schedule is that the Blue Devils will take on Tobacco Road rival North Carolina in their ACC opener on the road Sept. 23. The contest will also be Duke’s first road game of the year. Although The Blue Devils upset the Tar Heels last season, they got blown out in their last road game against North Carolina. After suffering a close loss against defending Coastal Division champions Virginia Tech last fall, Duke will look to avenge that loss on the road Oct. 28. Duke’s full schedule is below (home games in bold): Sept. 2 vs. N.C. Central Sept. 9 vs. Northwestern Sept. 16 vs. Baylor Sept. 23 at North Carolina Sept. 29 vs. Miami Oct. 7 at Virginia Oct. 14 vs. Florida State Oct. 21 vs. Pittsburgh Oct. 28 at Virginia Tech Nov. 11 at Army Nov. 18 vs. Georgia Tech Nov. 25 at Wake Forest

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t its weekly meeting on January 18, the DSG Senate had its first reading for an updated amendment concerning the number of seats on the Board of Trustees that are reserved for members of DSG. The amendment is a revised version of a similar proposal that the DSG Senate ultimately rejected in the spring of 2016. As it currently stands, five of the eight student positions on the Board of Trustees committees are reserved and occupied exclusively by DSG vice presidents and presidents, with the remaining three open to representatives from the student body at large. The updated amendment would instead place one DSG member on each of the five committees with a seat reserved for the DSG president. The remaining five open positions on the committees would be open to the general student body to apply for. In the past, most of our DSG-related commentary has criticized the organizations various shortcomings—detachment from the student body, compositional homogeneity and lack of transparency for example. Last April, in an editorial concerning the original DSG Board of Trustees amendment, we praised the initiative for its potential to benefit the general student body, but criticized the proposal’s

onlinecomment “People from lower income families are less likely to have access to the learning resources as high income families. They may also need to work to support their families, which detracts from time in the classroom or pursuing extra curriculars. Wealth breeds wealth...What the school will do about it is anyone’s guess.” — “bonesaw,” responding to “In search of economic diversity,” published January 23, 2017

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many oversights and potential errors. We were greatly disappointed to see the Senate shoot it down. Seven months after the unfortunate rejection of the proposal, it is refreshing to see the idea of Board of Trustee committee reform resurrected in the governing body. The revised amendment has the potential to open up student administrative positions – long criticized for not reflecting the demographical makeup of the student body – to a more diverse range of campus perspectives. Moreover, the updated

Editorial legislation will force all applicants (vice presidents, DSG members and non-DSG affiliated students) to more seriously consider the role that they are applying for on the Board of Trustees. The amendment can thus reinforce accountability for DSG’s role on the Board, with genuinely interested applicants being considered over DSG members who would be more apt to see their committee positions as secondary asides. As with the previous DSG proposal, we still have some complaints about what we see as potential problems with it. First, like all legislation that

curtails the privileges of the status quo holders, the proposal has the capability to quickly become a source of political drama by eliminating certain positions earmarked for DSG members, yet keeping the mechanism for choosing new representatives for those positions firmly within the ruling body. Second, the measure also rules out exploring other ideas for bridging the gap between the Board of Trustees and the general student body outside of DSG, such as making use of elections or various independent processes. These critiques aside, we commend DSG for venturing to make the student administrative positions more accessible to the undergraduate student body through this proposal. Having promised to increase accessibility and diversity within DSG at the beginning of her tenure, we commend DSG President Tara Bansal for keeping up with her political promises rather than leaving them by the wayside. This amendment demonstrates a rebuilding of trust in one of the DSG’s historic missions: to act as the intermediary between the administration and the general student body of Duke. Although in its current state, the proposal is far from perfect, it is certainly a good start. We urge the senate to improve and approve it.

Other problems of privilege

et me begin by expressing my respect for the work and study of social justice. In my opinion, there is no more noble a goal than to rectify an injustice, which is precisely what social justice seeks to do. The objective of the social justice activist, as I understand it, is to achieve an equitable and morally fair distribution of opportunity and privilege, regardless of race, wealth, gender or any other quality people may use to accord advantage and disadvantage to one another. In this sense, social justice embodies the spirit of meritocracy and fairness that is the lifeblood of this country, and I cannot imagine more patriotic work. That being said, the concepts at the heart of social justice theory are just as prone to being misunderstood and abused as anything else in politics. In particular, I take issue with the distorted understanding of privilege that has appeared on Duke’s campus. “Privilege,” as a concept has deviated from its original definition and taken on a meaning that runs counter to social justice’s fundamental principles of equity and fairness. According to social justice theory, privilege is “a group of unearned cultural, legal, social and institutional rights extended to a group based on their social group membership.” The wealth of one’s family, one’s religion or physical characteristics can all be privileges. Equally important, however, is what the

Inevitably he will experience difficulties and hardships, but he’ll be reluctant to share his experiences because of his privilege. Just like the rest of us, he associates his privilege with contentedness, but in this case he feels that he doesn’t have the right to complain. How could he, if privilege demands contentedness? Worse still, he might fear that even if he did share his experience, others would judge his problems to be trivial in the the face of his privilege. Instead of being able to share his experiences of difficulty or hardship, the privileged student feels guilty for having had that experience in the first place. Admittedly, this is a hypothetical, and an extreme one at that, but it illustrates a problem which I believe occurs to a lesser degree in a large portion of the student body. That is, we associate privilege with contentedness, and develop the sense (if not the belief) that only the unprivileged have a right to be discontent. Then, when the privileged among us experience their own hardships, their awareness of their own privilege and the guilt they feel for it will pressure them not to share. The result is that our discussions become less empathetic. Without the ability to be open and honest about their own experiences, privileged students that participate in discussions of social justice issues will feel that

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definition does not include. The original definition of privilege makes no claims about the quality of a privileged life. Not everyone who possesses the rights that privilege affords has actually benefitted from them, and those that have benefitted did so to varying degrees. Furthermore, privilege is intersectional, meaning that a single individual may be privileged on one dimension, such as race, and unprivileged on another, such as wealth. To be “privileged” does not denote that an individual’s life is trouble-free, or even especially easy. Most people understand this nuance in an abstract sense, but in practice we believe just the opposite. Consider this question, for example: do you agree that a cisgendered, heterosexual male student from a family in the top 1 percent of incomes should be unhappy with his life? Think of your immediate reaction to the question. What was the first answer that popped into your head, before you thought it over? Mine was “no,” the reason being that I associate privilege with contentedness, as I suspect many of my fellow students do as well. The opposite association between privilege and discontent is foreign to me, and so it felt wrong to think that such a privileged person should be unhappy. This logic is irrational, of course, because gender, sexuality and wealth hardly provide enough information to judge an individual’s happiness. Nevertheless, we at least feel as though the privileged have no right, or at least less of a right, to be discontent. Now, assume that this same student enrolls at Duke University, where he learns about his privilege. How will his awareness of it affect his behavior? One likely possibility is that he will begin to feel guilty.

they must agree with the opinions of unprivileged students, whose experiences they see as legitimate. That eagerness to agree is not the same as empathy or understanding. In fact, it’s exactly the opposite. Unresolvable guilt, like the kind that privilege evokes when people misunderstand the concept, actually undermines true dialogue. The trouble and the beauty of privilege as a concept is that it forces us to look at our lives in relation to the lives of others who may have less than we do. Then, it compels us to ask the uncomfortable question of how much of our material and social possessions we’ve earned and how much is the product of good fortune and circumstance. This process should inspire empathy. As others have explained far more thoroughly than I will here, many privileges are the product of unjust and morally reprehensible systems of discrimination. The same random chance and circumstance that has helped privileged individuals to succeed has held down others. Those of us who recognize our privilege should do what we can to support our disadvantaged brothers and sisters. We should work to level the playing field for everyone. However, understanding is a two-way street. While it is critically important that those of us with privilege learn to hear the voices of the unprivileged, to acknowledge the legitimacy of their experiences and appreciate their perspectives, it is also important that privileged students feel that they can discuss their own experiences of hardship, whatever they may be, without fear of being judged or having their own pains delegitimized. Ian Burgess is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “from the mountaintop” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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ook at those hands,” beseeched our new president of the 17 million viewers who tuned in to watch the March 3 Republican presidential debate hosted by Fox News. “Are they small hands?“ he asked rhetorically in an attempt to disprove seemingly irrelevant criticisms of his physical appearance. “And he referred to my hands,” continued the soon-to-be leader of the free world, “if they’re small, something else must be small. I guarantee you there is no problem,” said Donald J. Trump in clear reference to the wealth of information at his fingertips. Of course, it follows that big hands would boast big fingers, which naturally would have big fingertips with access to an abundance of information, especially in this day and age when “d**k jokes” can be retrieved by the thousands with the simple click of a mouse. The next morning, Facebook feeds the world over were littered with headlines about the previous night’s debate, which mentioned Trump’s offhand-hand

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located beneath it. Recently, the name “Trump” has been plastered to the tops of news headlines, as if they were luxury hotels, for a variety of reasons, but the two most frequently discussed have been the incident where Trump allegedly mocked a disabled reporter at a rally of his in South Carolina and the president’s success in convincing companies, like Carrier, Ford and Fiat-Chrysler, to invest in American jobs. If one were to simply read the headlines—as many Americans do—he/ she would consider the first newsworthy event an unquestionable travesty and the second newsworthy event an unqualified success; however, in both cases, there is more to the story than a few words at the top of the page. With regards to Trump’s alleged mocking of a disabled reporter at a rally in South Carolina, an event which occurred more than a year ago but has recently been revitalized as a topic of discussion because of comments made by Meryl Streep in a speech at the Golden

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comments. So much information about the 11-man policy debate on Russia’s looming geopolitical threat, trade policy, fiscal policy, the Migration Crisis and the general future of our nation was readily available, and yet I—and the majority of my generation—would allow my information intake to be limited to the few emboldened words my eyes can capture before a single scroll of the mouse pad drives the articles out of frame. Suddenly, my hands feel a lot smaller. The Internet and social media have greatly increased our ability to access information; however, in doing so, they have decreased our ability to absorb it. Paradoxically, the more information that we have, the less we have. Absolutely no one has time to read the countless number of perspectives that we have readily available to us the microsecond after a headline-worthy event takes place, but we like to act as if we take advantage of it all, and so we settle for breadth in a system in which both breadth and depth is unachievable. Rather than reading one or a few articles in depth, we opt to read the headlines because it is more time-efficient and it allows us to give off the illusion of being well read in a time when both sides of debate condemn the other for having unvaried media diets. But whether your echo chamber consists of Breitbart and Fox News or The Huffington Post and MSNBC, you will not properly inform yourself by reading the few—and often misleading—words that comprise the teasers to 800- to 1000-word compositions of original analysis. For the past year and a half, the man with the big (?) hands—who so eloquently alluded to the Information Age paradox that plagues my generation—has dominated the news. Since the election, Trump’s presence in the headlines has only increased, and if the past few weeks have been any indication, his name will continue to appear in bold face over the next four years. With a president who always finds his name in the headlines, it will be important for the American people to read about the reasons why the font size of the name “Trump” dwarfs the words

eet Sovaldi, a drug that (when combined with another) can cure most instances of hepatitis C, an ailment that damages the livers of about 150 million people worldwide. Per a journal article published by the American Chemical Society, this drug costs approximately $130-$350 (per course of treatment) to manufacture. How much might you expect the drug to cost? $400? $800? $2,000? Nope. This drug, launched in 2013, was put on the market for $84,000 per course of treatment. Let that sink in—a drug that costs no more than $350 per course of treatment was put on sale for $84,000. How could this possibly be the case? How could the difference between cost and price be so huge? Could this possibly be justified? To be sure, Gilead (the firm that priced this drug so highly), paid $11 billion to acquire the firm Pharmasset, which invented the drug. However, as the ACS article pointed out, this huge cost would pay for the acquisition in just one

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example of the first class of price gouging: they purchased the rights to a medicine that is not demanded by many people (meaning few if any other firms are willing to enter the market) and took advantage of the situation by raising prices “bigly.” Since the demand for specific, lifesaving medications is relatively inelastic (meaning demand does not change much, if at all, when the price increases), then people will pay the price. It’s a lifesaving drug—what choice do you have but to give what they ask? The other class of price gouging, in supracompetitive markets, takes place when certain firms have government-granted advantages in the form of intellectual property laws that allow them to be the sole manufacturers of newly invented drugs. While this can encourage innovation and offset the upfront costs of research and development, it is not clear that such artificial advantages are entirely warranted, given the ambiguity of the actual costs. It is telling, for instance, that we think pharmaceuticals spend approximately double the cost

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Globes, it is important to note that Trump has used similar demonstrations before to imitate “flustered” people regardless of any physical limitations. Trump made such a motion when imitating banking executives, army generals and Ted Cruz. Furthermore, Trump’s motions are only vaguely characteristic of Serge Kovaleski’s disability, which restricts arm movement entirely, and it is likely that Trump did not even recall that Kovaleski had a disability, as the reporter’s most recent contact with Trump was when he covered him for the New York Times in the early 1990s. With regards to Trump’s success in persuading businesses to create jobs in America, as opposed to shipping jobs overseas, it is important to express concern with regards to the means that achieve the ends. Trump’s first landmark success in this area was his announcement that Carrier—a premier air conditioner manufacturing company—would forgo building a factory in Mexico, and keep 1,000 jobs in Indiana that would have otherwise moved south of the border. However, it is possible that more than just an optimistic view of the business climate under a President Trump kept the organization in Indiana. Politico reports that John Mutz, a former Indiana lieutenant governor who sits on the member board of United Technologies, Carrier’s parent company, was threatened to not build the Mexico plant with the rejection of billions of dollars in federal defense contracts. If Trump did indeed use even one of United Technologies’ 178 military contracts and by extension taxpayer dollars to coerce Carrier not to build its Mexico factory, then his other “successes” are dubious. All of these situations are indicative of what will surely be a presidency full of headlines. If we seek the truth, by which we may hold the president accountable, we ought not depend on them. That is, if our hands are indeed big enough to hold anyone accountable. Jacob Weiss is a Trinity junior. His column, “not jumping to any conclusions” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

year of sales. Price gouging of drugs has been in style for quite awhile, but it has been particularly pronounced over the last few months and years. Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, became an internet villain when his company raised the price of Daraprim, a life-saving drug, from $13.50 a pill to $750 per pill, an increase of approximately 5,000 percent. The price of the Epipen, which administers a few dollars worth of epinephrine hormones to mitigate allergic reactions, rose about 480 percent since 2009, before “compromising” by releasing a still-upcharged generic version of the treatment. There are plenty more examples I could draw from (see Medscape for a more robust collection of examples), but the general trend is clear: drugs are getting more expensive, and a rise in costs is not the only factor. The market system is often credited as the single greatest achievement of humankind, the most important driving force of human welfare the world has ever seen. Our very own professor Michael Munger, one of the great libertarian thinkers of our time, put the general beauty of the market this way: “Lots of choices, lots of choosers, prices driven down toward the cost of production. New goods and services come constantly to the market, because producers’ selfinterest forces them to think of new and better ways to serve customer needs.” In the case of drugs in a market system, we would hope, and possibly expect prima facie, for this to hold true—drug prices ought to fall towards the cost of production, as competitive firms enter the market both to serve consumers what they need and pocket a nifty profit. But that’s just not happening. The article from the American Chemical Society, referenced above, put together a solid overview of the two classes of price gouging that we are seeing in the United States (emphasis added): “the absence of competition in the sale of low-volume, low-price drugs can lead to price gouging. For patented medicines, society allows supracompetitive pricing to incentivize innovation.” Turing Pharmaceuticals is a good

of research and development (R+D) on marketing their products. More broadly, neither of these scenarios features the necessary component of a functional market: healthy competition. Does that warrant government intervention? To be sure, that is an empirical question—it is open for discussion whether or not government intervention of some sort would improve outcomes for patients. However, the evidence seems to point towards the need for some sort of reconsideration of public policy. As the American Journal of Medicine rightfully pointed out, in many cases of public expenditures on health care, price gouging of drugs is a so-called “tragedy of the commons,” meaning that a few firms can internalize huge gains at the expense of the rest of society, the members of which each bear a tiny fraction of the true cost. If American taxpayers are paying into health care programs that pay these absurd prices, everyone bears a bit of the cost, and a few concentrated interests experience huge gains. The fact that the gains are so concentrated and the costs are so diluted makes legislative action that much more difficult, since the beneficiaries are wellorganized and politically savvy, jealously protecting their advantage. What does this mean for policy? Does that mean price caps? Or perhaps a rethinking of our outdated intellectual property laws? Maybe a demand for transparency in firms’ costs? I’ll leave that question up to the public debate and the experts in the field, but I will say that action is almost certainly necessary. For this is a problem with a real, human cost. As Consumer Reports revealed in an in-depth anaylsis, people who experience a cost increase in their medicine spend less on family and other bills, and sometimes even postpone retirement to maintain health insurance. The need for action is strong, and the time for action is now. Surely, people who suffer the misfortune of getting sick should not be taken advantage of in such an unnecessary way. David Wohlever Sánchez is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “simple complexity” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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summer school, recruiting, when you could offer,” Krzyzewski said. “One of the great people on our campus is Christoph Guttentag, our [dean of undergraduate] admissions. You can’t get everything in at the time when you have to make decisions, at least initial decisions on youngsters, and they’ve worked with us and we’ve worked with them.” Since ultimate admissions decisions rest with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, admissions officers typically evaluate players when programs have a strong interest in the student-athlete and also feel that the recruits are considering Duke solidly as a potential destination, Guttentag explained in an email. He said he could not speak about any particular applicants, but noted that flexibility and early communication mean that the evaluation process for recruited athletes has not changed much in the past several years. Peter Lange, provost from 1999 to 2014, echoed that point, explaining that the system Carolyn Chang | Chronicle File Photo was consistent during his time as Duke’s chief Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski called speaking at last year’s commencement ceremony academic officer. the biggest honor. “There are many athletes that coaches Devils and Kentucky. exclude from their recruitment lists because of from page 12 Even though many players have the chance our admissions requirements,” Guttentag wrote. to make a college decision very early in the “The coaches tend to have a very good sense recruiting process, it is increasingly common of who is and isn’t admissible, but the ultimate know we’re in step with what our for top talents to wait to see how unexpected decisions rest in the admissions office.” leadership wants.” departures might affect their preferred teams. In 2015, Derryck Thornton and Brandon ‘The biggest honor’ Flexibility with admissions dates Ingram waited until late April to commit to For Brodhead’s second-to-last graduation Two primary consequences of players Duke, and Marques Bolden did not announce ceremony in May 2016, he asked Krzyzewski to leaving early for the NBA Draft and frequent his decision until late May. be the commencement speaker—a decision transfers between schools are that programs Such circumstances with varying offer that was made a year before Krzyzewski actually woo prized talents extremely early in the and decision dates are not unique to men’s spoke at Wallace Wade Stadium. recruiting process and high school seniors basketball, and the result is that the University “The biggest honor—I’ve been fortunate often wait until late April or May to announce has to be more flexible when evaluating to get the University medal, to win national their college decisions. prospective student-athletes. championships—one of the biggest private Last year, Duke recruited the top high “We’re always in concert with what the moments was at his home, where we were school freshman in the country, R.J. Barrett, University wants academically. During the at a function a year in advance, actually the and after the Cleveland Cavaliers won the ever-changing landscape of men’s college graduation before,” Krzyzewski said. NBA championship, ESPN reported that basketball that takes place over these almost “And he said, ‘I want you to do me a favor.’ 11-year old LeBron James Jr. already had four decades, you have to make sure you’re I said, ‘Certainly, anything.’ He said, ‘I would standing scholarship offers from the Blue always on the same page with regards to love for you to be our graduation speaker next

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year.’ I said, ‘That’s a favor? That’s an honor. I would love to do that.’” “It meant the world to me. It turned out well. I love this University and the fact that he gave me that opportunity.” As Brodhead and Krzyzewski have navigated the past 12 years as two of Duke’s most recognizable figures, their friendship has grown. Krzyzewski said he and his wife Mickie consider Brodhead and his wife Cynthia very close friends, adding that “we are definitely in debt to the Brodheads for the commitment they’ve made to Duke.” And as Brodhead prepares to hand the reigns to University of Pennsylvania Provost Vincent Price, he leaves with a keen appreciation for his front-row seat to Krzyzewski’s record-setting program. “A coach is in the human-potential unleashing business, you only bring people who are very, very good. But Mike Krzyzewski never told a single player you’re good enough already,” Brodhead said. “It’s helping people understand what they could do to become even better as an individual and as a member of a team. For me, if that’s not education, I don’t know what is.”

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