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Eric Lin | The Chronicle Sheldon McClellan feasted against the Blue Devils’ zone defense in the second half, scoring a game-high 21 points to lead No. 15 Miami past No. 24 Duke Monday night. The loss was the Blue Devils’ fourth in their last five games. See story on page 6.

Mi Gente, Duke’s undergraduate Latino/a organization, announced Sunday that it will end its collaboration with the Office of Admissions in planning Latino Student Recruitment Weekend. The announcement—which was made in a letter addressed to Duke University signed by Mi Gente 2015-16 and published in The Chronicle—stated that instead of planning the weekend, Mi Gente will channel its energy into demanding that its “voice be heard” and its “community be represented” on campus. The letter also called for the creation of a Latino/a cultural center, more Latino/a faculty members, a larger office space for Mi Gente and Latino/a students and the formation of a Latino studies department, including a major, minor and tenured faculty. See MI GENTE on Page 12

Student robbed at gunpoint early Monday on West Campus Staff Reports The Chronicle Editor’s Note: A Q&A with the victim of the robbery can be viewed online. A student reported an armed robbery that occurred near the intersection of Wannamaker Dr. and Chapel Dr. at approximately 1 a.m. Monday. Two suspects reportedly approached the student with chrome handguns, took several items and left the scene in a red truck or SUV. No injuries were reported. A DukeAlert was sent to students, faculty and staff at approximately 2:10 a.m. notifying them of the incident. Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh wrote in an email early Monday afternoon that there was nothing new to report

and that “the Duke police are aggressively conducting an investigation and will continue to work closely with the victim.” Because of the winter weather that hit campus this weekend, the bus schedule was limited Sunday and early Monday—with only one C1 East-West bus running—and DukeVans’ service was also scarce. Sue Wasiolek, dean of students and associate vice president for student affairs, noted that students can call Duke University Police Department if they are unable to find transportation when weather affects the bus schedule. “I would always advise a student particularly during hazardous weather if they get to a place on campus where they feel they need transportation See ROBBERY on Page 12

Izzi Clark | The Chronicle A student reported being robbed at the intersection of Wannamaker Dr. and Chapel Dr. at approximately 1 a.m. Monday morning.

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Six students to expand DKU’s arts community during Spring Break Heather Zhou The Chronicle A small group of Duke students will help Duke Kunshan University expand its arts community by developing projects on DKU’s campus during Spring Break. The DKU Artistic Cultural Spring Break Program—sponsored by Duke Arts, duARTS, University Center Activities and Events and DKU—will take six Duke students to DKU to work with students and faculty at the university. Selected out of nearly 100 applicants, these students will specialize in a variety of art forms including dance, photography, visual arts and poetry. At DKU, they will help develop art projects, hold workshops and integrate art into the DKU curriculum. “DKU is really an area that needs to be molded,” said sophomore Kelsey Graywill, a student co-director of the program. “It’s a very untouched arts landscape right now so we want to do an arts program there to expand what we are working on here at Duke, increasing the presence of the arts and engaging students of all disciplines in arts.” The spring break trip is the result of the DKU administration reaching out to Duke leaders for help in expanding its arts community, noted senior Anshu Vipparla, the other student co-director of the trip and president of duARTS. “There is a need for DKU to get students to the university and they also lack the kind of diverse liberal arts education [that Duke has],” she said. “The arts has been really taking off at Duke and DKU really knows that.” During the one-week trip to DKU, Duke students will work with DKU students to create arts projects on campus that will enable DKU students to engage more in the arts, she explained. Vipparla added that the group is considering creating a large-scale art wall similar to the East Campus bridge so that students at DKU have an outlet for visual arts and can advertise student programs. The goal is to build arts projects that

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DKU students can work on during the school year and that Duke students can return to and help update in the future, she said. Another mission of the trip is to discuss with the faculty how to integrate arts into the curriculum to make it more arts and humanities friendly, Graywill noted. “DKU’s programs now are very much science-oriented,” she said. “We want to do projects that ask students to communicate science through the form of arts and create arts to connect with other people.” Students selected for the program will also be able to gain artistic experience and learn about the Kunshan experience.

“There will be a variety of activities during the week so that all Duke Kunshan students will have an opportunity to engage with the Duke students,” wrote Jennifer Bailey, program manager for the office of DKU and China Initiatives, in an email. Bailey noted that Duke students will go on a day trip to Shanghai to visit arts museums with DKU students. There will also be a series of workshops involving intercultural communication about the arts. “It’s very important that the Duke students will bring something back from the trip and share the experience so that other students at Duke can learn more about DKU,” said Ali Shumar, program

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coordinator at UCAE. Shumar added that students will take photos during their time at DKU and bring back their own art projects to make an exhibition at Duke after the trip. Graywill emphasized that the arts can play an important role in cross-culture communication, which can benefit both Duke and DKU. “A lot of issues we have had recently on Duke’s campus have been issues of cultural competency and understanding the experience of students from backgrounds that are very different from you,” she said, “Art is a wonderful tool to facilitate that process. We want to encourage both Duke students and DKU students to start thinking that way.”

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Scientists help develop probe to identify cancer cells more efficiently Rachel Sereix The Chronicle Duke scientists have helped make it easier to detect cancer cells by using a probe that makes the cells more visible. Sarcoma, a form of cancer that involves the connective tissues of the body, is often treated with the complete removal of the cancerous tumor. Researchers from Duke, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts General Hospital recently developed a probe that can locate and stick to cells embedded in healthy tissue, then cause the cells to light up to make them easier to locate. The DR. BRIAN probe, called LUM015, BRIGMAN is described in a study recently published in Science Translational Medicine in which surgeons used the probe safely to identify and remove tumors in mice and people. “This study was a phase I study of the fluorescent probe in humans. It was the first use of an activated fluorescent probe in humans,” said Dr. Brian Brigman, orthopaedic cancer surgeon, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and pediatrics, head of the Duke sarcoma program and an author of the study. “It was primarily testing the safety of the probe in humans and the ability to visualize tumors.” The study involved a trial that featured 15 patients—12 with soft tissue sarcoma and three with breast cancer—as well as mice with soft tissue sarcoma. Researchers inserted the probe—which after attaching

radiation therapy after primary treatment, some patients have no residual cancer and would not benefit from the adjuvant treatment. The use of the new fluorescent imaging agent circumvents the potentially toxic effects of radiation treatment and is novel in its employment of human subjects, Kirsch explained. “One of the most challenging parts of this study was enrolling patients into a clinical trial of a new imaging agent that had been tested in mice, rats, and canine patients with cancer, but had never before been given to a person,” he said. Melodi Javid Whitley, an MD/Ph.D. student in the department of pharmacology and cancer biology who wrote the clinical trial protocol and conducted imaging on the tissues, said she expects LUM015 to be a versatile new tool for cancer treatment. “It is likely that it will also work in other types of cancer like ovarian cancer, prostate cancer,” Whitley said. “I am particularly interested in seeing if it can help dermatologists remove skin cancer and melanoma.” In future studies, the researchers will aim to determine if techniques involving Special to The Chronicle fluorescent probes such as LUM015 can Researchers that are part of the Duke Cancer Institute helped develop LUM015, a probe that uses a indicate whether an entire tumor has been fluorescent agent to make cells brighter and easier to find. removed. For example, LUM015 might to its target breaks down and releases a are also treated with radiation, which is prove effective in allowing for less radiation fluorescent agent that makes the cells expensive and has its own complications, or direct radiation that only targets the brighter and easier to see—where tumors Brigman explained. LUM015 could help tumorous region. had been removed from the people and this situation for patients by making it “Currently, there is a group of people mice. They determined that the method easier to determine whether tumors are at Mass General Hospital in Boston to test was safe and could be effective in finding present in the patient after surgery. this further with patients who have breast cancer. David Kirsch, professor of radiation cancer,” Whitley noted. “Instead of just For sarcoma patients, the high oncology, pharmacology and cancer looking at the tissues that came out of the recurrence of symptoms in patients treated biology and an author of the study, noted patient, they will use cameras to look inside with surgery alone means many patients that although many patients benefit from the patient.”

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Stem cell research offers explanation for developmental disease Sarah Feng The Chronicle Discoveries made by Duke researchers may help explain a developmental disease called microcephaly. Published online Jan. 7 in the neuroscience journal Neuron, a group of Duke researchers found that stem cells that experience a delay during mitosis—the stage of the cell cycle in which a cell divides into two—produce DEBRA SILVER fewer stem cells and more differentiated neurons, many of which die prematurely. This finding could help determine the causes of microcephaly, a rare disease

characterized by abnormal smallness of the head, lead to a smaller brain, she explained. incomplete brain development and intellectual “That’s where our study came in,” Silver said. disability. “We wanted to understand what was actually driving “We were interested in following up on a previous those differences in neurons and stem cells and get finding that I had made during my postdoctoral a sense of what are the defects in stem cells that play studies, in which I had found that a specific a role in causing microcephaly.” depletion of a gene called Magoh, The research began with mouse which has a disruption of stem mutants generated in Silver’s lab, e wanted to cells, causes smaller brain size in which allowed the research team to understand what perform live imaging of stem cells as mice,” said Debra Silver, assistant professor of molecular genetics was actually driving those they were dividing. and microbiology at the School of differences in neurons and Silver’s team found that some of Medicine. the stem cells in Magoh-deficient A number of human genetic stem cells. mice took two to three times longer studies have collectively shown that than normal to fully divide. These — Debra Silver slowly dividing cells were also shown mutations associated with brain size disorders such as microcephaly to be more likely to die prematurely. are caused by genes that control cell division, but “Some cells in the brain that are dividing more the real mystery lies in how those mutations actually slowly will generate the wrong kind of cells,” said Louis-Jan Pilaz, a post-doctoral fellow in Silver’s lab who assisted with the research. The team investigated whether or not the extended duration of mitosis would directly lead to fewer stem cells and more differentiated neurons and dying cells. To demonstrate this causal relationship in a mouse model, the investigators treated cells and tissues with specific drug agents that prolonged their mitotic duration. “One big challenge during the process was being able to visualize these cells and see the duration of mitosis,” Pilaz said. “Another challenge is trying to find the drug that could specifically delay mitosis to make it longer, but then could be reverted back and then to see what would happen.” Silver said that the findings may have implications for parts of the body outside of the brain. There are a number of disorders related to stem cell dysfunction that affect the development of all parts of the human body. Some of these other disorders may potentially be explained by prolonged mitosis, Silver said. The researchers are also studying other genes in the same pathway that interact with the Magoh gene. The team has already identified a protein that is involved in signaling during mitosis but is still searching for the protein that instructs the cell to make neurons instead of stem cells.

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Partnership established with Indian Institute of Technology undergraduates. Approximately five IITGN students will spend the summer at Duke working The Chronicle with the Data+Information Initiative, Six faculty members recently traveled Carin noted. Other anticipated projects across the world to visit the Indian will look at air and water pollution in Institute of Technology at Gandhinagar India and autism research, he said. as part of collaborations between Duke Carin said after last week’s meetings and IITGN. he was impressed by the caliber and The collaborations enthusiasm of the are intended to IIT faculty, noting here’s a really strong that the IIT schools promote increased innovation between the are well known for willingness among universities as well as engineering and attract IIT faculty. I’m optimistic foster opportunities to “stellar” undergraduate involve undergraduates this is going to work. students because of from both universities in their competitiveness. — Larry Carin environmental science “There’s a really and engineering work. strong willingness among The United States IIT faculty,” Carin said. Agency for International Development “I’m optimistic this is going to work.” has funded the collaboration as part of Both Carin and Bergin explained an agreement reached last year between that the collaboration is in Duke’s the United States and India to encourage strategic interest, and since the research collaboration between the two University already has a presence in countries. Duke faculty visited the IITGN India, the program gives researchers campus last week in Palaj, Gandhinagar the opportunity to build on the existing for discussions on how to move forward in partnerships. planning and sharing of best practices. Bergin also expressed optimism “I think we’re all hoping to gain about the ability of faculty to foster collaborations that will allow us to do connections despite geographic very exciting scientific collaborations,” distance because of experience with said Mike Bergin, professor of civil and forging these relationships in the environmental engineering in the Pratt past. School of Engineering and one of six “Doing collaborative work in far faculty members who made up the Duke off places is always complicated, but I delegation. don’t think it’s going to be anything we Larry Carin, Duke’s vice-provost can’t overcome,” Bergin said. for research, lead the delegation The collaboration was facilitated and noted that the inter-institutional by RTI International, a research research collaborations will include nonprofit that provides research and several opportunities to engage technical services to governments and

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universities. Brian Stoner, distinguished fellow at RTI International, explained that after President Barack Obama’s declaration of intent, a screening was done earlier last year to identify the appropriate university partners. The meeting last week was the culmination and brought all the partners together to share best practices. This effort is not the first by Duke to forge research collaboration in India, however. The IITGN partnership joins several other research initiatives in India which Duke has participated in, including the Reinvent the Toilet challenge, Stoner noted. Carin also explained that Duke’s current ties to India go deeper than

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Miami’s veteran backcourt of Angel Rodriguez and Sheldon McClellan picked Duke apart Monday Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle CORAL GABLES, Fla.—New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez was seated courtside Monday night, but the Blue Devils had their hands full dealing with a different A-Rod. Led by the veteran leadership of guards Angel Rodriguez and Sheldon McClellan, No. 15 Miami scored at will down the stretch to deal No. 24 Duke an 80-69 loss Monday at the BankUnited Center. The Hurricanes made their last eight shots from the field, stymying the Blue Devils’ bid for a late comeback and all but ensuring that Duke will fall out of the top 25 when the next poll is released next week. Playing their second game in three days, the Blue Devils played zone for the vast majority of the night, trying to conserve energy and stay out of foul trouble. But the Hurricanes—who victimized Duke’s man-toman defense in a 90-74 win in Durham last year— were able to find the soft spots in the zone, scoring 42 points in the paint, many of them on dunks. “We’ve got to get healthy, get fresh again and keep figuring out how we might win,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “The league is so difficult and we’re limited. I’m glad that the students were yelling ‘overrated.’ Man, I didn’t know we were rated.” Brandon Ingram and Grayson Allen combined for 36 points for the Blue Devils (15-6, 4-4 in the ACC), but McClellan poured in a game-high 21 and Rodriguez chipped in 13 points to go with 11 assists, lobbing several passes over the top of the Blue Devil zone for alley-oops. On the other end of the floor, the Hurricanes’ length and aggression forced Duke into one of its poorest shooting performances of the season. The Blue Devils shot 42 percent from the floor and

Eric Lin | The Chronicle Miami point guard Angel Rodriguez delivered 11 assists—including multiple alley-oops—as the Hurricanes whirled past a Duke squad that played strictly zone defense in an effort to conserve energy.

finished 6-of-20 from beyond the arc, compared to their season average of 8.5 per game. Along with the stout defense of McClellan on the perimeter, center Tonye Jekiri was a menace inside and altered numerous Duke drives to the basket. The Hurricanes (16-3, 5-2) swatted seven shots Monday—Duke did not record a block. “[Jekiri]’s such a great rim-protector,” said Krzyzewski, who called Monday’s game the most physical of the season for the Blue Devils. “That allows their perimeter to be even more aggressive

because he can erase mistakes.” Miami jumped out to a 7-2 lead, and though Duke responded with 10 straight points, the Hurricanes regained control as Duke struggled through a 1-of10 stretch from the floor. Looking to spark the offense, Krzyzewski reinserted Ingram back into the game and got immediate results. The swingman scored six of the team’s next eight points and helped energize the stagnant unit by breaking down a stout Hurricane See M. BASKETBALL on Page 7

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Eric Lin | The Chronicle Chase Jeter and Amile Jefferson watch from the sideline as the Blue Devils try to piece things together with a short bench.

CORAL GABLES, Fla.—Last year, Duke defied the odds and won a fifth national championship with just eight scholarship players and a lone senior leader. Just a few months later, the Blue Devils find themselves with an even shorter bench in the thick of conference play. And so a familiar question arises: If eight was enough— sometimes barely—can six possibly suffice? The answer thus far has been a resounding no. Duke has dropped four of its last five games, three of which were suffered at the hands of unranked opponents. The fourth came Monday on the road against No. 15 Miami, by an 11 point margin. If the Blue Devils were sporting a six-man rotation full of experienced players, maybe then they could pull off the seemingly-impossible feat, but with three freshmen playing significant minutes, depth becomes an essential facet of a winning team. “We’re going to get three guys on 10-day contracts,

have try-outs for our student body…. No, we’re just going to try get better,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski quipped. “We’ve got six guys. Our effort was as good as theirs. We’re just not as good as they are. We weren’t out-competed against or anything like that. I’m proud of our guys.” Depth figured to be a pressing concern heading into Monday’s matchup against the veteran Hurricanes, who boast nine players who play more than 10 minutes per game. And yet, just by examining the postgame box score, the Blue Devils matched Miami in several key areas. Duke out-rebounded the Hurricanes 37-33, scored 11 second-chance points to Miami’s 12 and shot 6-of-20 from beyond the arc compared to the Hurricanes’ 7-of-20 clip. On paper, the Blue Devils held their own, yet they suffered their most lopsided defeat of the season. Miami’s veteran savvy was on full display Monday, and with a deep bench for head coach Jim Larrañaga to turn to, the Hurricanes were able to push the Blue Devils around and wear them down. See DEPTH on Page 8

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Embrace the parity Chaotic. Unpredictable. Carnage. These words are not being used to recount the end result of gladiators strapping on armor and ripping one another to shreds for the amusement of the Roman populus—they are descriptions of the 2015-16 college basketball season. But let me add another word to the mix: beautiful. Sure, I don’t know if a perennial powerhouse is going to cut down the nets in April, or if Monmouth’s bench is going to rally the Hawks to a Cinderella run through the madness that is March. But I do know one thing—I have never been more invested in every game around the country than I have been this season. And I love it. As a Duke fan and student, it may seem like sacrilege to enjoy basketball while the Blue Devils continue to tumble down the rankings. Trust me, I feel the pain of each loss, especially being a senior who was hoping for another magical tourney run before I get booted off campus into the “real world.” At the same time, though, I cannot help but be drawn to every upset like an insect to flame. Just look at the 2014-15 season. Call it what it was—one of the most boring, predictable seasons in recent memory. The preseason top four consisted of Kentucky, Arizona, Wisconsin and Duke—four teams that remained in the top 10 throughout the entire run of the AP Poll. Three of the teams received No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament—the

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Eric Lin | The Chronicle Freshman Brandon Ingram scored 19 points to lead the Blue Devils, but Duke could not consistently crack Miami’s defense until late in the game and fell for the fourth time in five tries.

M. BASKETBALL from page 6 defense that ranked third in the conference in field goal percentage heading into the game. But despite the freshman’s strong play, McClellan and Rodriguez proved to be too much for Duke to handle. After torching the Blue Devils for 24 points a year ago, Rodriguez was hot again early Monday, hitting three firsthalf 3-pointers to lead the way for Miami. McClellan made his presence felt by playing solid defense on Allen all evening and finding his way to the basket by slipping behind the Blue Devils for high-percentage looks at and above the rim. Even with Rodriguez playing some of his best basketball of the year, Duke stayed close as Matt Jones rediscovered his 3-point stroke and scored a teamhigh 10 first-half points. As a result, the Blue Devils trailed by just four at the half despite assisting on only three of

their 12 made baskets and committing seven turnovers. Duke started slow coming out of halftime, unable to score against Miami’s size in the paint. The Blue Devils hit just four of their first 16 shots in the half and went scoreless for 4:28 as the Hurricanes stretched the lead to 10 behind four early offensive rebounds by Jekiri. “They really fought on the defensive end, really clogged the paint and tried to make it hard for the guards to penetrate,” freshman Luke Kennard said. “They tried to dig at the ball and cause little turnovers.” Although the Blue Devils looked to stay close by attacking the basket, the team’s inability to connect from downtown hurt. With Duke struggling through another drought from the floor, the Hurricanes rattled off seven straight points to ignite the sell-out crowd and push the lead to 14. The Blue Devils responded with a quick 7-0 run of their own to get back

Eric Lin | The Chronicle Sophomore Grayson Allen scored 11 of his 17 points in the second half as the Blue Devils tried to mount a comeback, but Miami made its last eight shots to close out the game.

into striking distance and trailed 5548 with 7:27 remaining in the game. After a few minutes of back-and-forth action, five straight points by freshman Derryck Thornton and a finish by Marshall Plumlee had Duke within five. But a McClellan backdoor slam once again sent the crowd into a frenzy and left Duke hanging by a thread. The Texas transfer continued to torch Duke with an array of cuts to the basket and finishes at the hoop, scoring seven of the last 12 points for the Hurricanes. “They played like a talented, mature team tonight and they did enough to come away with the win and we have to give them credit where credit is due,” Plumlee said. “When you show up and have games with good attitude and fight, you can take a lot of lessons away from those and that’s what we’re going to do.” The Blue Devils will have an eightday break before taking the floor Feb. 2 at Georgia Tech.

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Eric Lin | The Chronicle Grayson Allen was met by a slew of Hurricane players at the rim on most of his drives Monday.

DEPTH from page 6 Duke struggled to get any production from its bench—the first basket by a Blue Devil reserve came on a Derryck Thornton layup halfway through the second half—while Miami received a 15-point boost from sophomore Ja’Quan Newton. With Duke strapped for productive minutes, the Hurricanes represented the opposite end of that spectrum Monday. Senior Tonye Jekiri manned the paint and anchored the defense,

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and redshirt seniors Angel Rodriguez and Sheldon McClellan dominated on the offensive end, tearing apart Duke’s 2-3 zone—an attempt to avoid fatigue. At the end of the contest, all eight of Miami’s players who saw the floor played for more than 10 minutes, which kept the five Hurricanes on the floor at any given time fresh enough to pull away in the second half and hold off a late Duke charge. “Our guys fought like crazy and they competed and put themselves in a position to win,” Krzyzewski said. “We haven’t played in a game like that all year. It was really physical. Our guys hung in there really well and played through tired. We can’t practice that kind of game because we don’t have the guys. That was the most physical game we’ve been involved in.” Duke took the floor at the BankUnited Center just two days after playing a tough road contest at N.C. State. With five players playing more than 30 minutes on the hardwood in each of those games, the Blue Devils were running on fumes down the stretch, despite trying to conserve energy throughout the game with the zone. The result was a Miami offense that ran up and down in the closing minutes, scoring 18 points in the game’s final 4:45 on an endless loop of lay-ups and dunks. “We’re not going to quit, we’re going to keep fighting,” freshman Luke Kennard said. “We’re a proud program, a proud team and there’s no quit in the locker room. There’s no solace in

the fact that we fought and we lost, but going through experiences like this can only make you tougher.” Luckily for the Blue Devils, they will have a full week to recuperate before they head south again to take on Georgia Tech Feb. 2. Duke turned in one of its better all-around performances against the Wolfpack after a break from Monday to Saturday, so the extra time to rest and scheme for the Yellow Jackets will likely do the Blue Devils a world of good. But until Jefferson is able to suit up again and reassume his role as a vocal leader on both ends of the floor, Duke’s six-man rotation will have to simply try to do enough to get by.

Eric Lin | The Chronicle Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski played five players 32 or more minutes Monday.

Eric Lin | The Chronicle Miami center Tonye Jekiri bothered the Blue Devils at the rim all night and collected 10 rebounds—six of them on the offensive glass—as the Hurricanes outmuscled Duke.

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sk most Duke first-years what they plan to major in, and pat come the replies, BME, pre-health, CS, with an assurance that betrays their being new to college. Indeed, in what comes as no surprise to most, Duke has established itself as a reputed university for those looking to dive into STEM fields and those like economics that lend themselves to sure career tracks. Yet one of Duke’s most outstanding qualities is the depth of its opportunities across a wide variety of fields. We boast not only of top-ranked medical, business and engineering schools but also highly regarded cultural anthropology, political science and literature and language departments. But for much of the undergraduate student community, these sides of Duke remain unexplored. Even as the newly revised Trinity College curriculum extols the virtues of a liberal arts education, there is a studentdriven culture on campus that pushes a careeroriented philosophy of education on students. Students single-mindedly bent on consulting or medical professions often neglect to use diverse courses to cultivate critical thinking and holistic intellectual development. While these career goals themselves cannot be written off

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completely, it is undeniable that some students aiming for them are much less intentional about their education than others. We believe that there is a clear perception gap between pre-professional students and those devoted to the humanities and majors with less mainstream post-graduation plans. Given the strong tracking of Duke alumni to the worlds of finance, consulting, law and medicine, the options are tempting for the confidence of traveling paths that have been taken by countless others. The social anxiety

Editorial students face when asked “So what are you doing this summer?” stems from the expectation that the answer of a Duke student is something impressive or is a recognizable company’s name. For some students, it is hardly a choice with the increasing cost of college making high starting salaries increasingly valuable. While our faculty and academic leadership can push all the change they can manage with the new curriculum as we discussed yesterday, we urge diversifying the promotion of job opportunities

and increasing the presence of students with majors that do not fill the Career Fair or the coffee chats in von der Heyden. Promoting research opportunities and grants for the social sciences and arts would be natural for a university that attracts star faculty across departments. The Duke Experience class featured in the Experience Duke Deliberately curriculum proposal actually provides a great space for the exploration of what research and careers lay down the road for humanities majors. Students should feel comfortable from the get-go with challenging themselves in fields that are off the beaten path. The proposed curriculum framework presents both students and the administration, with an opportunity to build on Duke’s sometimes neglected, but pre-existing strengths. It is important that we take charge and not fail to capitalize on the strength of our faculty and undergraduates. Our education needs to be one that goes beyond looking good on our resumes to being one that is synonymous with producing students who think critically beyond what their jobs require and who are sensitive individuals in the true spirit of our University.

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ith seniors on the verge of graduation and freshman finally easing into Duke life, it is safe to say that second semester is upon us. As graduation comes eerily closer, I’ve been forced to think about something I’ve actively refused thus far: graduation requirements. As a faithful student of the liberal arts, I’ve made strides at getting those

cultures and countries and open up opportunities to foster a truly international culture of learning. But learning a language shouldn’t be the half-hearted endeavor that the vast majority of Duke Trinity students engage in. Instead, we should reflect on what “meaningful engagement” with another culture really looks like.

Shruti Rao TAMING OF THE SHRU ethical inquiry and quantitative studies requirements. However, I have made absolutely zero progress on the dreaded foreign language requirement. So, is this a column about a whiny student who doesn’t want to deal with taking a foreign language to graduate? Partially. But it is also a challenge at what the foreign language requirement adds to student’s academic lives. The Duke foreign language requirement for Trinity students is, “three courses in a given language or a single advanced (300‐) level course, whichever is attained first.” Given the nature of other requirements, foreign language is particularly intense. Being raised in a multi-lingual household, I was dismayed to realize that Duke doesn’t offer the Indian language that I speak, so I couldn’t place out. It’s reasonable that Duke cannot offer courses in every language that exists. But I do believe that students who speak a language that Duke doesn’t offer shouldn’t necessarily have to start all over again. It is especially unfair given that students with backgrounds in other languages that are offered can take a 300 level class and place out of the requirement. But the FL requirement can be reformed outside of making adjustments for students with previous language experience that isn’t offered by Duke. I believe that the goal of the FL requirement, which is “intended to enable all students to engage meaningfully with another culture in its own language” falls short. The reality is that making it just three semesters into a new language ending up at a 200 level language class isn’t enough to “engage meaningfully with another culture” in the respective language. Three semesters of a language hits the unfortunate balance of not being long enough to fully learn the language or culture but going beyond basic exposure to the language itself. Don’t get me wrong. I think offering foreign language is a critical aspect of a great, international university like Duke. Languages enhance cognitive and analytical abilities, offer insights into other

I think it’s also worth asking ourselves if our graduation requirements are truly covering the breadth of skills students will need to create real change in the world and be effective leaders. For example, it could be argued that the foreign language requirement is important for enabling abilities to communicate with other cultures, which has become especially important after the rise of globalization. But is taking three semesters of a language an experience that is so valuable and skillintensive that students graduate actually engaging with other cultures? Or do the vast majority of Duke graduates draw upon their broad liberal arts education to be well-balanced and informed leaders at an international scale? Given how interconnected the world has become and how generations of Duke students have left with the mere three semester language requirement, it seems reasonable to say that not all students have needed total fluency in another language in order to be successful. The idea that the world is more connected is likely what drives the belief that we need to require foreign language education in the first place. But this interconnectedness, driven by globalization, was facilitated by technology. In a way, technology is the new global language. Shouldn’t the language requirement adapt to the changing currency of communication? What if we approached introductory coding courses such as Computer Science 101 as the equivalent to language? Foreign languages are a long-standing part of Duke’s graduation requirement. However, just because it is the official policy doesn’t necessarily mean it is the most effective or well-suited policy for the current student body. It’s time for a thoughtful reflection on what students are really intended to gain from the requirement and whether or not the practical application actually matches with those intentions. Shruti Rao is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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henever I think I understand the world, I’m due for a rude awakening. Consider the recent events in Cologne. We know by now that many of the New Year’s Eve assailants were migrants. We know the attacks weren’t isolated to Cologne. Right-wing pundits are saying “told you so” while the left wrings its hands trying to avoid anti-refugee backlash

Of course, there’s the elephant in the room: ISIS stands to gain if we alienate refugees. Rejecting millions of people fleeing from them will only fan the flames. From a pragmatic perspective, it is absolutely vital to respond with caution. Reacting with impulsive violence is not just wrong; it’s dangerous. Let’s pause a moment and admit that we all have biases. It’s hard to admit the truth

he independence declared by the United States in 1776, was not just political; it was also ideological. Separating itself from class societies the globe over, the new republic asserted “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” The American idea expressly minimizes the importance of birth

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(unfortunately, it’s already underway). As I read pieces on both sides, I wonder why we think in such extremes. I used to see the world in black and white: oppressed vs. oppressor, right vs. wrong. Events like this would seriously challenge my worldview. I’ve since learned that to really grasp such a situation, it’s necessary to recognize simultaneously the good and the bad. The truth lies in nuance, not in generalization. According to the left, the real problem is integration. The fault lies with European governments and haphazard immigration policies. Left-wing pundits are quick to point out that trauma from oppressive regimes, lack of education and patriarchal conditioning are the underlying causes of the violence toward women. These are valid arguments. However, regardless of reasons, there are legitimate safety concerns for countries taking large numbers of refugees. It’s not just xenophobia. While compassion and understanding are necessary, it’s also crucial not to tolerate violence, even when committed by minority groups. We can understand the forces molding people while still requiring them to conform to basic Western values. To do otherwise would be disrespectful of their personhood and autonomy. Moreover, there is ample evidence that a sizeable portion of the world’s Islamic population in certain regions holds beliefs antithetical to ours. These views certainly played a role in motivating the New Year’s violence. Denying or minimizing this only bolsters the stereotype of the excessively politically correct Left. We can have a conversation about causes, we can point out that most of the world’s Islamic population opposes ISIS and we can still advocate for lending a hand, but we need to recognize the facts. Acknowledging this doesn’t mean we’re making blanket statements about Muslims or encouraging violence. There are a range of views between “Islam is a religion of peace” and “Islam is incompatible with Western civilization.” The reality of any religion is complex. Our understanding must be too. The right takes the opposite tack. Its myopia is seeing “refugees” and “Islam” as monolithic and threatening. This is also overly simplistic. One million refugees from more than ten countries came to Europe in 2015. Most of them will likely be able integrate, given proper support, and bring economic benefits to host countries. Since New Year’s, many refugees have spoken out against sexual violence and shown support for victims. One woman even recounted how a group of Syrians saved her the night of the attacks. Beyond this, many Islamic groups have been extremely vocal in condemning terrorism. Selectively ignoring such demonstrations of solidarity is just as willfully ignorant as refusing to acknowledge anything beyond them.

in the “other side.” We’re afraid of losing ground. We’re afraid of our words being twisted. We’re afraid of doing wrong. If you’re a liberal, take a minute and consider how you would feel if the perpetrators were white, black or Jewish. Imagine different ethnic groups. Observe your reactions. Ask yourself if a desire to combat racism or oppression just might be coloring your view. I know it colors mine. Now suppose there is a sudden influx of migrants to Durham. A group of them assaulted your friend on New Year’s. How do you feel? In this hypothetical situation, it would be harder for me to welcome refugees with open arms. It’s easy to call for benevolence when the personal cost is low. If you’re a conservative, ask yourself this: should Western justice prioritize punishing the guilty or protecting the innocent? Imagine that you’ve been blamed for the rioting of far-right activists. Your rights and freedoms are now restricted. Is this fair? Now ask yourself how the large numbers of innocent families feel. We are all prone to hypocrisy. We’ve been blanketed with fear, uncertainty and doubt by the right while the left mocks conservatives and tries to explain things away. Why don’t we recognize reality: there is no way a country can be perfectly safe, even if it completely seals its borders. That would, of course, mean millions of innocent deaths. Thus this refugee crisis is a moral dilemma in the truest sense. Nations must balance conflicting ethical principles. Despite the risks, there is still a strong moral imperative to help. European nations (and America) should continue to accept refugees, with stricter integration and screening. I second The Economist here: “it is not culturally imperialist to teach migrants that they must respect both the law and local norms such as tolerance and sexual equality.” Norway offers classes about European sexual mores. Such classes should be mandatory for all migrants. Those who adapt should be welcomed with open arms and provided with work. Those who cannot or will not must be summarily deported. This is the right thing to do. We’re going to have to grapple with the fact that it has a price. That price may be a bit of safety. Neither European governments nor any well-intentioned leftie can proceed in denial. We cannot force the world to fit a comforting narrative because we want it to. Otherwise, we risk knee-jerk reactions when something happens like on New Year’s. How the world responds to this challenge will speak volumes about our collective character. Let’s not give into our fear. But let’s not live in fantasy either. Ted Yavuzkurt is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays. If you have a comment for him, he can be reached at tdy@duke.edu.

conditions, while maximizing that of exertion, in the determination of an individual’s outcome. And our constitution expressly institutionalizes liberties—speech, religion, rights of assembly—which promote mobility, appeal to an innate sense of justice and mute popular disaffections that historically preluded upheaval and chaos. For a long time, this system of institutionalized liberty and self-actualization was remarkably successful. Around the world, America became synonymous with “opportunity for all.” And as the standard bearer of capitalism, the United States refined and exported the most successful system of poverty reduction the world has ever known. In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson sought to eliminate the last vestige of class by declaring an “unconditional war on poverty” with the categorical objective of “total victory.” Today, the cost of this 50-year effort stands at $22 trillion, a sum the National Center for Policy Analysis estimates is greater than the cost of all wars the United States has ever fought. Have the means justified the end? The numbers seem to suggest, no. Research by Pew Charitable Trusts in 2012 shows that intergenerational mobility remains disconcertingly low: 43 percent of children whose parents were in the bottom income quintile remain in the lowest quintile as adults. In 1965, the poverty rate was 17.3 percent; in 2014, it was two and half percentage points lower at 14.8 percent. Unsurprisingly, some economists dispute this ostensible failure. Notre Dame’s James Sullivan and University of Chicago’s Bruce Meyer argue that a truer measure of poverty would be based on the consumption of goods and services after receiving government benefits. Using this approach, the “real” poverty rate declined from 16.5 to 4.5 percent over the past 50 years. The implication is that, technically at least, our current programs help 10 percent of the population live above the poverty line. Unfortunately, this measure reflects the principal fallacy that has characterized the War on Poverty since inception: confusing means for ends. Both empathy for the poor and the advancement of their cause has been measured by the amount of money spent on anti-poverty programs rather than the economic emancipation of the poor. The result is a welfare system that helps millions fend off abject deprivation but at enormous costs. Besides the $1 trillion federal and state governments spend annually on its programs, the welfare system generates enormous collateral damage in the form of a poverty trap. As Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. Tim Scott noted in a recent Wall Street Journal editorial, the benefits received by a single mother earning the minimum-wage are administered in such a way that she would face a marginal tax rate of 90 percent were she to get a job with an hourly wage that was $3 greater. In such a system, millions of individuals have made the (perfectly rational and irreproachable) choice to stay unemployed or under-employed.

The acknowledgment of this issue is not a denunciation of the poor as lazy. Rather, it is simple recognition of the most important lesson of economics: incentives matter. Because our anti-poverty institutions prioritize alleviating the situation of the poor over helping them escape it, the quest to realize the American idea has instead trended inexorably towards its deepest anathema: a permanently segregated, class society. What

can be done to reverse this trend? The solution is not that of the New Poor Laws of 19th century Victorian England, cutting off all benefits for able-bodied workers. A society as wealthy as the United States should provide, as Friedrich Hayek advocated, some minimum level of food, shelter and clothing, sufficient to preserve health, as well as some form of social insurance against the “hazards of life.” Further, for many people in poverty who are mentally or physically handicapped, escape is not a possibility. Here, alleviation is simply the best we can do. But among the able poor—i.e., the vast majority of Americans stuck below the poverty line—innate talent, hope and ambition are being crushed. The easiest step, perhaps, is the reallocation of funds to programs that ensure benefits are gained, rather than lost, through work. For example, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) incentivizes work by supplementing the wages earned by low and moderate income individuals, effectively eliminating the high marginal tax trap mentioned earlier. It also rewards additional efforts, unlike arbitrarily raising the minimum wage (which invariably displaces as many or more workers than it helps). Greater in both difficulty and importance, the reform of the American public school system is necessary in order for education to fulfill its role as the “great equalizer” of society. Schools working in low income neighborhoods have insufficient capital to deal with the complex problems their students face. Over the last 30 years, the performance of U.S. public schools has increasingly been measured by the test results of their students. An aspect of test-based accountability is the use of funds to reward schools that perform well on tests and to punish schools that don’t. The problem with this is that the schools that are likely to perform the worst on tests are those with the highest quantity of low-income students. This sometimes results in the schools that are most in need of funds getting the least. Indeed, a report by the Education Law Center found that 14 states have “regressive” school funding (schools with a higher quantity of low-income students get less funds than schools with a smaller quantity of low-income students). This being said, the marginal product of capital reallocated to public schools in low-income neighborhoods is unlikely to be very high unless other inefficiencies are eliminated. Amongst many others, the problem of teacher unions, which causes enormous harm to the instruction quality at these low-income schools, needs to be addressed. America today has become wealthier and more powerful than any nation preceding it. An essential measure of our success remains equal opportunity at birth. To keep the American idea operant, much work remains. Rethinking our approach to poverty without prejudice would be a good place to start. Julian Keeley is a Trinity junior. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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and it’s not available I would advise them to call Duke Police and see if they might be able to coordinate anything with the police department,” Wasiolek said. “If I for instance were to have found myself stranded without transportation, I couldn’t call a friend, I didn’t feel comfortable walking, I would call Duke Police.” Campus crime has been a major topic of conversation on campus in 2015-16. Last week Duke Student Government considered a resolution to support the installation of security cameras on campus near residential areas. 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. Samantha Neal and Amrith Ramkumar contributed reporting. For more background on previous incidents related to campus crime in 2015-16, see the following excerpt from our top stories of 2015: After going more than a year without an armed robbery on campus following increased security investments, the University had an armed robbery on Central Campus in February, one of many on-campus attacks in 2015. The February robbery occurred when a student reported

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J’Nai Adams, program coordinator at the Center for Multicultural Affairs and the faculty advisor for Mi Gente, declined to comment on the group’s decision. Senior Gloria Tomlinson and sophomore Elizabeth Barahona, copresidents of Mi Gente, could not be reached in time for publication. Mi Gente’s announcement noted that the group had sent a letter to President Richard Brodhead in 2005 requesting that a cultural center be established and more Latino/a faculty administrators be hired. Eleven years later, the authors said, the group’s demands have not been met. In the Faculty Diversity Initiative’s biannual report in 2013, 2.1 percent of faculty identified as Latino/a. This figure remained stagnant from 1993 until 2012—during which time the number of black faculty more than tripled, according to a January 2014 article published in The Chronicle. The percentage of Latino/a undergraduates, meanwhile, has increased in recent years. A record 11 percent of the 1,750 students in the Class of 2019 are Latino/a, compared to 10 percent for the Class of 2018, and seven percent for both the Class of 2017 and the Class of 2016. Tomlinson told The Chronicle in September that the presence of more Latino students on campus during LSRW was one of the reasons for the increased yield. Attendance at LSRW—which included

The Chronicle being stopped by a man with a handgun, who demanded the student’s purse. The second on-campus armed robbery of 2015 occurred in July when a victim unaffiliated with Duke reported that two men with a handgun demanded money near the 301 Swift Ave. apartments. Less than a month after the July robbery, a female student was sexually assaulted in a taxi on West Campus after leaving Shooters II. A man was arrested and charged with seconddegree sexual assault following the incident. In early September, Duke University Police Department doubled security on Central Campus after suspects with a handgun robbed a female student, compounding students’ housing concerns. In addition to the on-campus robberies, dormitory burglaries spiked during move-in and two Central Campus residents reported spotting an unknown male in their apartment and two missing laptops in October. Questions were raised in late September about the University’s handling of an attack on a hospital employee after “inconsistent information” was passed on after the incident. The attack added to controversy surrounding Duke’s health system following the settlement of the lawsuit involving cancer patients linked to Anil Potti and the introduction of a lawsuit filed by a professor who alleges that Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill maintained a no-hire agreement that violated antitrust laws. a dance showcase and faculty-led discussion new this year—has remained consistent over the years, with approximately 60-80 attendees at the weekend last April. Over half of the students who attend LSRW enroll at Duke the following fall, said Ashley Taylor, senior admissions officer, Latino recruiter and LSRW coordinator, in the September Chronicle article. Instead of organizing the event this Spring, Mi Gente will collaborate with other organizations on political events, organize demonstrations and meet with administrators, members wrote in the letter. “Duke Latinx students attended Duke on the premise that they would be able to intellectually flourish,” the Mi Gente students wrote. “Instead, we have found that we must perform the duties of the administrators, educators, and admissions office. We must assert our humanity in classrooms where our professors or peer students project micro and macro aggressions, we must demand that we receive a space outside of the Bryan Center Basement, and we must plan a four day long recruitment event using undergraduate funds.” Other demands included providing needblind admission for undocumented students, increasing pay for all employees to an hourly wage of $15 and administering “a public apology for the routine negligence of Latinx issues on this campus.” The writers of the letter closed by stating that they expected a formal response from the University by Jan. 29 at 5 p.m.

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Alex Deckey | Chronicle File Photo Mi Gente’s office space on the bottom floor of the Bryan Center opened last spring. The organization is demanding a bigger space on campus.