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Shayal Vashisth The Chronicle Students, faculty and staff can now take free Uber rides to and from the Duke Lemur Center. The pilot program between Duke and Uber, a ride-sharing service, began this week. It allows Duke community members traveling to the Lemur center for classes and research opportunities to use a special promotion code to cover the cost of the ride. If student feedback is positive, Duke Student Government hopes to work with the administration to expand the program to include Student Health Center and offcampus doctor’s offices. “This increases people going to the Center, people can get involved in the Center and people can get jobs and not pay for the Uber there and back,” said sophomore Gerardo Parraga, a DSG senator for services who spearheaded the project. “If we really get a strong showing of people going to the Lemur Center and wanting to use this program, then we could maybe do that at the end of the semester.” Parraga said that he modeled the initiative after the University of Florida’s Safe Rides program, which offered student discounts on rides from 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday. The Uber program See UBER on Page 3
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Brian Pollack The Chronicle WASHINGTON—For most of the game, both offenses lit up the scoreboard with midrange jumpers and long 3-pointers from all over the court. But it was a shot from just a few feet away from the rim that turned out to be the biggest one. Marshall Plumlee’s offensive rebound and putback through contact with 1:14 remaining proved to be the differencemaker as fifth-seeded Duke outlasted 12thseeded N.C. State 92-89 Wednesday in the second round of the ACC tournament at the Verizon Center. Plumlee suffered a blow to face from teammate Matt Jones earlier in the second half—resulting in what Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski confirmed was a broken nose after the game—but returned to the floor just a few minutes later and ended up making the game’s most important play. “No doubt, that’s Marshall Plumlee to the max,” Blue Devil freshman Luke Kennard said. “We expect him to make big plays for us, and that’s exactly what he did—with a broken nose, that’s what it looks like…I’m proud of the way he played, I’m proud to be his teammate and that’s just the way he is.”
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For the most part, the game was a shooting clinic, and both teams finished shooting better than 50 percent from the floor and 40 percent from 3-point range. The Blue Devils (23-9) put together one of their most fluid offensive performances in weeks with consistent ball movement that led to four players scoring at least 17 points. It was not offense, though, but defense that helped Duke shut the door on the Wolfpack (16-17). After Plumlee’s key bucket, Kennard missed a jumper, giving N.C. State a chance to potentially tie the game with 30 seconds left. The Wolfpack put the ball in the hands of dynamic point guard Anthony “Cat” Barber—who finished with a game-high 29 points and seven assists—with their season on the line, hoping he could make a play as he had on numerous occasions already to bring N.C. State back from a late nine-point deficit. But as Barber drove to the hoop and tried to dish out to one of his teammates, the Blue Devils got a hand on his pass and sophomore Grayson Allen scooped up the loose ball to secure the win. “We knew that they got us a couple times on that. Knowing their history, they like to go to plays that they know will work,” Jones said. “We just have to trust in our game plan. We’ve been through that play over and over
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Duke cancer experts reflect on last month’s Biden visit Abigail Xie The Chronicle After Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Duke last month, researchers say they are optimistic about the future of cancer research despite many challenges that still exist in the field. Biden visited the Duke Cancer Institute in February and held a roundtable discussion with cancer experts, physicians and health leaders to help inform the National Cancer Moonshot. President Barack Obama announced the initiative in his State of the Union address earlier this year. Biden said that with the initiative, which he will lead, he aims to achieve “a quantum leap on the path to a cure” by increasing government funding and focusing on cutting-edge approaches to treating cancer. Dr. Steven Patierno, deputy director of the DCI and professor of medicine, said the current rate at which cancer research has progressed is unprecedented, but that he has reservations about whether research has the political support necessary to achieve the moonshot initiative’s goals. “I think that the vice president’s visit was emblematic of his personal commitment to cancer research and its future, and I think it reflects the broad sentiment of Congress to want to invest in biomedical science,” Patierno explained. “But I think we still have to wait and see how that’s going to actually play out over the next few years.” Susan Braun, CEO of The V Foundation for Cancer Research, which has given more than $5 million in grants to the DCI
Jack White | Chronicle File Photo Many Duke cancer experts attended last month’s roundtable with Vice President Joe Biden and said that the conversation was not just about publicity.
since 1994, attended the roundtable with Biden. She said that the discussion was important because it provided the vice president with expert opinions. “I also believe it was a very realistic conversation,” Braun said. “It does not appear that what they’re doing is about publicity. It’s about being able to use the time left in office and about what he can bring to the table with his personal experience, even after he’s no longer a part of the administration, to keep a focus on improving the already great momentum in cancer research.”
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have really changed dramatically in the last two years,” Hwang said. “We’ve started to see huge successes [in immunotherapy], and there’s a lot of opportunity to extend this.” Patierno added that he sees reports unveiling new understandings of cancer’s causes and potential leads in targeting it at the molecular level on a weekly basis. Despite the current level of scientific promise, cancer research still faces many challenges in optimizing its potential, the biggest of which is creating enough political will and commitment to invest in research, Patierno explained. “From the scientific perspective, it could not possibly be a more exciting and fruitful time in cancer research,” he said. “Unfortunately, that’s not meeting with full engagement by the political establishment and those who are the decision-makers on funding for biomedical research.” Research funding for the National Institutes of Health has remained stagnant for more than a decade, and the question of future political investment under a new president remains uncertain—as it is not a topic that is currently being addressed by presidential candidates, Patierno said. Patierno added that conducting basic science work, discovering new drug targets for potential medications, disseminating findings and treatments to communities and educating the public about cancer risk factors are critical areas that require investment from the government and public. Hwang also emphasized the importance of translating research findings to help See BIDEN on Page 12
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East, West and Central Campus and the and Psychological Services often Lemur Center. refer students to off-campus doctors, Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president but Parraga said statistics show that for administration, said in a Duke many students stop attending those Today release that Uber’s on-demand appointments, citing inconvenience request model matches “how fluid our and cost of transportation as the main transportation needs can be.” reasons. “This will offer an important expansion In addition to transportation to of travel options that can match the daily healthcare facilities, Parraga said he schedules of students would like to see the and employees,” program include he problem with Cavanaugh said. access to volunteering Duke Vans is that The expansion of opportunities. the program depends there aren’t many vans, so “I got an email on student usage in from a student who the pilot, Parraga they’re always in constant said she wants to work explained. He noted use. with refugees around that the more students Durham, but she has — Gerardo Parraga no way of getting to provide feedback, the more quickly and them,” Parraga said. easily it can be established as a full- “If the student is making a difference in fledged service. the community and connecting Duke Student safety was another major and Durham, then that is something the reason for pursuing this Duke-Uber school should fund.” partnership. Parraga said that there are Parraga explained that DSG support many residential areas on campus that has been influential in the recent are far from bus stops, but are located developments. Initially, Parraga alone where an Uber could easily pick students worked with administration to set up the up directly from their dorm. This could pilot program, but he said the support make transportation around campus of DSG now allows the Uber program to much safer. have a louder voice on campus. In addition, the partnership could Junior Tara Bansal, the DSG presidenthelp improve students’ access to elect, noted that scaling the pilot program up healthcare facilities. will be a presidential initiative next year. She Sophomore Courtney Scoufis—co-director plans to work with the senators to lobby for of Fix My Campus and DSG senator for the funding needed to expand the program services—assisted Parraga with the project. to potentially replace Duke Vans. “I felt that means for accessing “With a large number of students healthcare were unsatisfactory on traveling off-campus regularly, virtually campus,” Scoufis wrote in an email. “I every student could opt in to use this found that my friends on Central Campus program and the cost-saving to students is and East Campus were less likely to go to immediate and direct,” Bansal wrote in an Student Health if they were sick, as it was email. “In five years, I would love to see this more of a commute to get there when program operating as a 24/7 mechanism they were not feeling well.” that will also take students into Durham Healthcare facilities like Counseling and housing complexes.”
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UBER from page 1 will alleviate issues with the established Duke Vans service, Parraga explained. “The problem with Duke Vans is that there aren’t many vans, so they’re always in constant use,” Parraga said. “The demand for the vans far exceeds the supply. Since Uber has infinitesimal demands, we could really see this ease the demand on Duke Vans to make Duke Vans more efficient for students who want to use that.”
Parraga began working on the Uber program five months ago with the end goal of improving campus transportation and safety. For now, the program’s physical limits are set by geomaps, in which Duke sets coordinates for the trip area. Students using a promo code provided after signing in with a NetID will have the cost of their rides billed directly to Duke, as long as the trip remains within the radius set in the geomaps. The maps are limited to a radius around
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Duke clamps down to stymie Wolfpack’s last-gasp play to end shootout Fighting Irish await Duke Thursday Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle WASHINGTON—The Blue Devils had seen the play before. They knew how it ended—an outcome different from the one they sought—so they decided to flip the script. In the highest-scoring 40-minute ACC tournament game since 1990, Duke survived 92-89 against N.C. State on the back of a gritty defensive stand on the Wolfpack’s last fluid offensive possession, stymying one of N.C. State head coach Mark Gottfried’s most trusted plays. Wolfpack freshman Maverick Rowan had hurt Duke earlier in the game by coming off screens on the baseline to rise and fire from beyond the arc. With the Blue Devils leading 92-89 and less than 30 seconds remaining, N.C. State returned to that set trying to free the rookie for a game-tying triple—but this time, Duke was ready. Point guard Anthony “Cat” Barber drove the lane as Rowan tried to shake free, but the Blue Devils did not let him get any breathing room. The tight coverage forced Barber to improvise, and the junior did all he could, wrapping a pass around Marshall Plumlee toward center BeeJay Anya. But Anya could not corral the ball, and it fell into the lap of Grayson Allen, who whittled precious seconds off the clock as Duke closed out the win. “We switched off and got off to Rowan the shooter. But Cat, he’s tough to keep in front,” Allen said. “He made a play to the basket. Someone came over and tipped the ball. I was
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On the other end, four Blue Devils recorded at least 17 points, and Duke enjoyed a 52.4 percent clip from the field, its best shooting day since Jan. 23—an 88-78 win at N.C. State. Brandon Ingram seemingly could not miss early on, as the freshman drilled his first four 3-pointers and drove to the basket with aggression, with results markedly different from his first half Saturday against North Carolina—when he went scoreless and attempted just one shot. After Pittsburgh and Syracuse played a down-to-the-wire game just prior to the Blue
WASHINGTON—The ACC experienced lots of technical difficulties with the shot clock during Wednesday’s second-round contest between Pittsburgh and Syracuse. There could be plenty more of those scoreboard errors with the amount of offense on display Thursday. No. 5 On the heels of Duke vs. a high-flying 92-89 No. 4 victory against 12thNotre Dame seeded N.C. State Wednesday, fifthTHURSDAY, 2 p.m. seeded Duke will Verizon Center battle fourth-ranked Notre Dame for a spot in the ACC semifinals Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Verizon Center. The Blue Devils and the Wolfpack looked as if they were playing a video game for much of Wednesday’s contest, compiling gaudy offensive statistics as seemingly every shot hoisted up fell through the net. Eventually, the N.C. State offense cooled down a bit, and Duke clamped down enough on defense to eke out a victory. But the Blue Devils know they would be pushing their luck to engage in another shootout with the Fighting Irish in the next round. “It was frustrating but fun. Fun because we were scoring, but frustrating because
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just coming down and saw the loose ball and went to grab it. That was really what we needed to do the whole game—get loose balls, be energetic on defense.” The irony of the game’s final play was that— for the most part—both team’s offenses got exactly what they wanted all afternoon. Duke shot 61.3 percent in the first half, but found itself trailing heading into the locker room because the Wolfpack were even better. N.C. State hit 6-of-10 from downtown before intermission, but also racked up 18 points in the paint, with Barber able to penetrate and dish off to Anya and Abdul-Malik Abu at will.
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Blue Devil bats silenced by Penn State Hank Tucker The Chronicle Three hits were enough for Duke to top Toledo Sunday afternoon, but the Blue Devils’ offensive struggles caught up to them Wednesday. Duke only mustered three hits again in a close 2-1 loss against Penn State at the Durham Bulls Athletic 2 Park, squandering PSU DUKE 1 another impressive performance from the mound. The Nittany Lions only managed three hits themselves, but took advantage when they had runners on base to plate one more run. “We’ve got to give good effort. We’re a team that utilizes our speed, and if we’re going to do that, we’ve got to run hard every single time and every single play,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “We got outcompeted tonight. Penn State was the better team on the field tonight and they deserved to win the
ballgame.” The two bullpens combined to toss 11 scoreless innings, and senior Nick Hedge allowed just three runners to reach base in 4 2/3 innings of long relief to get the win for Penn State (4-7). “Hedge pitched the ball great for them in the middle innings, really made some key pitches in key spots, executed the fastball to both sides of the plate and really kept us offbalance,“ Pollard said. “He competed and moved it around and made pitches when he had to.” The Blue Devils (8-5) threatened in the eighth frame when freshman Zack Kone led off with a line drive into center field for a single. Hedge did not make it through the end of the inning, and exited the contest with two outs and Kone standing at second. Senior submarine pitcher Jack Anderson replaced Hedge on the mound and immediately struggled with his control— See BASEBALL on Page 9
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At the camp I have gone to—and eventually staffed—since I was nine years old, there is nothing to protect you from the unexpected, no matter who you are. Originally a member of the Youngest Girls cabin, I learned this instantaneously when I returned to my cabin one day to find it rendered inaccessible by hundreds of yards of dental floss strung strategically between bedposts. Only hours before, I had complained to my counselor about our prior exclusion from the prank wars as the tiniest group of females at camp. The floss, though a sure inconvenience, provided more than a little thrill. Another night, a golf cart decorated as a spaceship driven by a Darth Vader prowled the camp to invade and wake people up with its mechanical voice. Yet another day, the personnel director’s car was discovered parked in the dining hall at breakfast time, filled with packing peanuts and coated in industrial Saran Wrap. In the Middle Girls cabin I later graduated to more nefarious attempts as a less vulnerable target—alarm clocks, set for different early hours, hidden in the ceiling rafters and behind the walls. Someone tied a fishing wire to our door to invisibly open and slam it from dozens of yards away. Also appearing from time to time and year to year: water balloons. Roof mattresses. Land shark. With this mischievery inspiring my thoughts anew each August, I grew up appreciative of a sense of humor along these lines—silly, surprising, not employing any particular logic except to look for something fun. A different Vermont institution, Ben and Jerry’s, prints magnets and shirts positing the converse: “If it’s not fun, why do it?” College—with fewer rules regarding personal belongings than camp, along with creative university-trained minds, and
the strange antics of almost adults—was a place I expected to carry some of the same urgency toward pranking. In Pegram as a freshman I witnessed this occasionally: the hilarious fire hazards of duct-taping a door and piling furniture and trash receptacles outside another to trap the unsuspecting dwellers; moving someone’s bed into the common room; elaborate Marketplace heists of multi-gallon ice cream containers. I hear stories from former members of my SLG of weeks-long Nerf wars where they feared the hallway even to go to the bathroom. These cases, though, have been few and far between and seem to be getting less frequent as the years have gone on. Even
editor’s note the chances at mischief that are built into Duke’s unofficial graduation requirements are diluted by the fact that they’re not original, just tradition (illegal ones at that). And while inside jokes are rampant on this campus, they are trapped in the confines of websites and apps. We are too digital with our comments and our cleverness. Large displays or spaceships or high-velocity thefts are too committal to squeeze into this academic, extracurricular craze. Old photos in Duke’s archives show a little more ambition, with decorated statues and massive banners and monstrous antiCarolina undertakings. These ideas were so significant and so widely acknowledged that they’re in our library’s record books,
waiting to be found by a procrastinating student with a little fun fire in them. This is why I see pranks as more than just a temporary laugh. Pranks are performatives in absence—like a letter, or a signature, leaving a record of someone’s self to be discovered. The passerby of a witty construction doesn’t have a source or a Twitter handle to attribute it to; it just has to stand on its own, funny, its creator receiving no credit. “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” But even without a culture of pranking around campus these days, students remain suspicious. The yearnings of mischief linger in us like those of a Youngest Girl. In a group text this week someone warned the group against wearing sweatpants, presumably because of the higher temperatures. But one cautious sophomore asked if it was because there was a prank happening to people wearing sweatpants. (To all those who stay cozy: beware.) If we stay a little nervous like this, hopefully some more people will take note of the need to be filled and fill our dorm rooms with packing peanuts and floss. That could mean we can’t get to our desks and our books, but we could all use a little break anyway. —Georgia Parke
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Local exhibit explores changing Durham landscape Christy Kuesel The Chronicle Duke students are aware of all of the changes taking place on Duke’s campus, but they may be less informed about those happening in Durham. Moriah Lefebvre’s exhibit, “Hometown (Inherited),” showcases the physical changes taking place at incredible speeds around the city. “Hometown (Inherited)” is being shown at Through This Lens gallery until March 15. In May, it will be featured at Urban Durham Realty. The gallery will host a closing reception this Sunday from 2 p.m.-4 p.m., and Lefebvre will give an artist’s talk at 3 p.m. Lefebvre was born and raised in Durham. After briefly leaving the city to attend the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, Lefebvre decided to stay and raise her own family in Durham. Having her own children led Lefebvre to realize the changes taking place around her in her hometown. “Something happened when I had my boys where I start realizing these moments in the landscape that had looked one way when I was growing up, and now that they’re growing up they look another way,” Lefebvre said. Lefebvre started the project by taking a photo of herself and her twin boys in a clear cut forest in North Durham without realizing that the photo was going to turn into a series. Lefebvre then began to take photos with other local families in locations that showed physical changes taking place in Durham. The theme of families is seen throughout all of Lefebvre’s pieces, as
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each of them contain a parent with one or more children, with the exception of one photo that shows a pregnant woman. The title of the exhibit, “Hometown (Inherited)” relates back to the intergenerational aspect that Lefebvre has found in her work: Durham is her personal hometown that has been inherited by her children. “It’s about parents and their children and what it’s like to be raising your kids in this location that’s in the process of changing so dramatically.” As a Durham native, Lefebvre has seen many of the changes that have taken place in Durham. She personally has seen the most change in the downtown Durham area, which has become a cultural hub for the city. The rise of huge luxury apartment complexes also stands out as
a major change in the landscape of the city. While Lefebvre is excited by the new people that these changes bring to the area, she also realizes that these changes could come at the cost of displacing lowerincome families, many of whom have lived in Durham for generations. “I definitely am not one to think that these changes are either good or bad. I think it’s a mix of both of those things at the same time,” Lefebvre said. “It’s both exciting and concerning.” Lefebvre constructed her pieces by first taking a picture of the landscape, then deconstructing and reconstructing the image. She digitally cut the image up into 20 smaller pieces, then printed and collaged them back together. She used acrylic paint to go back in and handpaint the images. This process mirrored
the changes of deconstruction and reconstruction that she had seen around her in Durham. “It gets at this idea of these shifting pieces that are moving and constantly changing and evolving, and that’s what’s happening to the landscape I’m looking at,” she said. Through This Lens is a gallery in downtown Durham that specializes in showing photographic work. The gallery, which opened 11 years ago, shows exhibitions by artists from all over the world, but it mostly focuses on local artists like Lefebvre. Gallery director Roylee Duvall found Lefebvre’s exhibit to be different from the gallery’s typical shows, which tend to be more journalistic. “Even though there is an element that you might think of as being journalistic, it’s also very imaginative and I think in part it explores the idea of the effect of change on families,” Duvall said. Lefebvre was able to complete her project in large part due to the Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists grant, which was awarded to her from the Durham Arts Council. The grant is awarded every year to emerging artists. This category includes artists who are just starting out in their careers and artists who have reached a pivotal moment in their careers. Although Lefebvre was planning on ending the project when she put it on exhibition, the incredible support that she has received has inspired her to continue taking photographs of the changing Durham landscapes. “There is still so much going on in Durham and I feel I want to continue capturing it,” Lefebvre said.
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HeforShe inspires photo campaign by Duke students Christy Kuesel The Chronicle Duke students may remember Emma Watson’s speech to the United Nations announcing the HeForShe movement. Now, Duke’s campus has their own chapter of HeForShe, which hosted their first event last week. From Mar. 2-4, the “Men Should Be/Women Should Be Photo Project” allowed Duke students to sign up and have their headshot taken. The photos will then be edited to include a Google search bar over the participants’ mouths, where statements like “women should” or “women can’t” will be followed by a phrase describing certain stereotypes that apply to certain genders. Students select their own phrase to put on their headshot, making the project more personal. The photos will be edited over Spring Break and released on Facebook the week class resumes. The project is modeled off of a campaign by UN Women that uses a similar format of putting Google search bars over women’s mouths to bring attention to gender stereotypes. Junior Thamina Stoll, president of HeForShe@Duke, saw the campaign online and thought it would be a great way to both promote her organization and foster a conversation about existing gender stereotypes. “We thought the photo project would be a very good way to convey our message and to give Duke students the opportunity to share their stories about how gender stereotypes have affected their lives,” Stoll
said. To the members of HeForShe@Duke, the photo project has been successful. All of the original photo slots were filled within the first day, and over 60 people participated in the campaign. “It was just overwhelming because we did not expect this to be this successful,” Stoll said. Stoll has been looking at gender issues since she came to Duke, and decided to create HeForShe@Duke after watching a TED Talk by Michael Kimmel that examined why gender equality helps everyone, not just women. She was inspired to found a new organization on campus that specifically invited men into the conversation on gender equality. While Stoll applauds the contributions made by other groups working to empower women, she felt that there were no existing organizations striving towards gender equality that included men. The introduction of HeForShe@Duke to Duke’s campus has been well-received by many of its members, particularly in that it creates conversation about serious issues related to gender equality. The organization provides a space for its members to discuss how gender issues impact them and those around them. “It’s an hour a week that I really have critical thoughts and critical conversations,” sophomore Sayantanee Das said. Das also found that gender discussions were not taking place at Duke to the same degree that discussions about other social issues took place. “We see differences in race, we have
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that conversation a lot on campus, but we don’t have the gender conversation,” Das said. While HeForShe has faced criticism as an organization for being part of white mainstream feminist culture, Stoll stresses that HeForShe@Duke strives to include everyone, including those who do not fit into the gender binary. “Everyone’s experiences and opinions are valid, and we really want to get as much input from as many people with many different background as possible,” Stoll said. HeForShe@Duke has no particular plans for the rest of the semester, but they do plan on collaborating with a
number of other organizations on campus in the future. In the Fall, they plan on collaborating the the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative to show a documentary about female entrepreneurs and host a panel with some of the people featured in the documentary. They also plan to invite another speaker to campus in the Fall semester. In the meantime, they plan to expand their membership and promote their cause on campus. “HeForShe@Duke is a platform for me to be able to voice my thoughts, to fight for my equality, and also to provide a platform for anybody else to fight for their equality,” said sophomore Ziwei Zhao, the group’s treasurer.
REVIEW: Kendrick Lamar’s “untitled unmastered” Alex Griffith The Chronicle When the most important active recording artist in hip-hop unexpectedly drops a new track, we listen. When he drops eight of them, we stop and stare. Kendrick Lamar—alias Cornrow Kenny—has had one of the most impressive years in memory. Following the release of 2015’s instant funk/ soul/rap classic “To Pimp a Butterfly,” he’s toured the country with a live band, received critical adulation, been hailed as a cultural head of the Black Lives Matter movement and, most
recently, closed out his sweep of the rap categories at the Grammys with a (literally) incendiary performance before getting robbed of Album of the Year. Of course, though, when crafting such an exquisite creation as “Butterfly,” there’s going to be some fat cut from the final product. And that’s where last week’s surprise release/ EP/thing “untitled unmastered.” comes into play. A collection of eight outtakes and demos from the “Butterfly” sessions, recorded between May 2014 and this year, the tracks show the process of rap’s most creative and significant man. “untitled 01” opens the project with a hazy, jazzy intro until a deep voice
Chronicle File Photo Kendrick Lamar performed as a headliner at Duke’s LDOC concert in 2013.
utters come-ons to some girl. Lamar then enters from a distance, voice obscured by reverb, and delivers a two minute verse covering a modern day Revelation, an apocalypse demarcated by racism and the collapse of skyscrapers, only to end with Lamar trying to get to church—only to have a chorus tell him to live his life and whatever makes him happy, “just take it all back before the light switch.” Lamar’s singing makes a rare appearance on “untitled 02” in a sexand lean-soaked miasma of choruses, bridges and the all-necessary appeal to God. Midway through, Cornrow Kenny returns with a baleful verse about the trappings of wealth before exploding into a quick coda where he rightfully professes his dominance of the rap game. The next two tracks are quick interludes, with “untitled 03” featuring a call and response between Anna Wise and Lamar about the lessons learned from various ethnicities, most notably the white man, who only desires “a piece of mine’s” and a cut of the $10.99 album sale. “untitled 04 “is a soulful and structureless song, in which Lamar whispers the plight of the poor while a chorus misleads the youth and denies welfare to the same people Lamar reps. “untitled 05” is a straight-up funk jam previewed at the Grammys, with a signature Thundercat bassline underlying the whole song while “Butterfly”-style saxophones whimper in the background. Lamar delivers bars of pure, unadulterated hedonism with guests and Top Dawg Entertainment label mates Punch and Jay Rock. “untitled 06” could have been
dropped anywhere on “Butterfly,” with a beautiful ooze of a chorus chorus by Cee-Lo Green where he duplicitously explains that “both sides are evenly odd.” The penultimate track is a threepart suite which starts with a spacedout confession of the incredible high that comes with the creation of art like TPAB, before proceeding into a braggadocious and sprawling verse about the size of Lamar’s… philanthropic effort. The track closes with three minutes of amorphous and unmastered audio from the studio sessions—the only three minutes of the entire project that require any patience to get through. “untitled 08,” also known as “Blue Faces” after its performance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, closes the album with a beat lifted straight out of “Butterfly”’s “These Walls.” Lamar describes the sadness that can’t be prevented by the “blue faces” of all his new hundred dollar bills, a bragging echo of the age-old sentiment that, of course, money can’t buy happiness. While not as cohesive as “Butterfly” or “good kid, m.A.A.d. city,” Lamar’s latest project still manages to convey the themes he hasn’t been afraid to approach in the past. The lyricism is there, the production is there and the track quality is too—regardless of what his label says about it being a collection of throwaways. More importantly, it shows that Kendrick might be done with the funky sound of “Butterfly,” but who knows? Rap’s most interesting man can do whatever he wants at this point.
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At long last, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar: a reflection Sid Gopinath The Chronicle So, let’s get the important stuff out of the way. Leonardo DiCaprio won an Academy Award on Sunday. Yes, that Leonardo DiCaprio. America’s sweetheart. The Internet’s endless source of entertainment and memes. The man who could’ve totally fit on that piece of wood at the end of the Titanic and didn’t for some reason. The guy with this meme. It seemed like anyone who knew anything about movies was hyped about this win. Leading up to the Oscars, the big question seemed to be, “Do you think Leo will finally win?” It was a question asked with bated breath and a whispered prayer that the hero everyone loved would finally get the Oscar for which he was apparently so long overdue. So, when he finally did win, the Internet exploded. I wasn’t quite as swept up in the joy of the moment. Look, don’t get me wrong. I love Leo. Without a doubt, he is one of the finest actors of our generation, and The Revenant definitely proves that. But I have my own case to prove tonight. We have latched onto Leo simply because he is an attractive and highly visible frontman for the exclusive band that is Hollywood. We have seen him grow up from a goofy young actor to a young adult heartthrob to a talented and versatile older actor and producer. But Leo only deserved to “finally” win his Academy Award on this fifth nomination for “The Revanant.” Not before. Not after. And he certainly didn’t deserve the reputation of being criminally underappreciated. Let’s start by breaking down his previous nominations, shall we?
Special to The Chronicle Leonardo DiCaprio recently received his first Oscar award for his performance in ‘The Revenant.’
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talent. But, of course, he was absolutely bound to lose to Ralph Fiennes for a spectacular performance in “Schindler’s List.” Wait... Yeah. Somehow Tommy Lee Jones won for this for a sort of decent performance in “The Fugitive.” Bizarre. I will give you that, while he didn’t deserve to win, he also didn’t deserve to lose to Tommy Lee Jones. To recap, Leo is by no means undeserving. But when compared to his competition in those four specific years, it is hard to justify an Academy Award at any other time. This argument has been made in a similar fashion already, though. FiveThirtyEight actually did a really incredible piece on it that gives some quantitative reasoning for it. So, instead of giving a quantitative argument, I want to delve a little bit into why it was okay that it took this long for Leo to finally win his Oscar and why he didn’t deserve to become the Internet sensation he did. The most central part of my argument is the fact that there are tons of other people who deserve Oscars and don’t get them in any sort of timely fashion. The fact that Leo became a massive internet sensation does not make him any more or less deserving than any of these other incredible people. There are so many members of the Academy who don’t get nearly enough love, despite being nominated as many or more times than Leo. Did you know that Peter O’Toole had eight Oscar nominations and never won in his lifetime? Our generation might only know him as the King in “Stardust” or the voice of Anton Ego in “Ratatouille.” But this is the man who nabbed his first Oscar nomination with his groundbreaking performance in “Lawrence of Arabia” and continued to rack up seven more nominations all the way through 2007. Coming in right behind Mr. O’Toole is Richard Burton, with seven nominations and no wins. Interestingly enough, both O’Toole and Burton were nominated for their work in “Becket,” which was snubbed at the 1965 Oscars and only won one of its twelve nominations. Maybe they just have bad luck. On top of all of this, the extremely talented and versatile Glenn Close, who is still alive today, has six nominations and no wins. Yes, she may have had her part in the rather mediocre live action “101 Dalmatians” movie as Cruella De Vil, but this is also a lady who was just nominated in 2012 for her fantastic work in Albert Nobbs as the titular butler. At this point, it should at least be clear that there are other actors who deserve as much praise as Leo gets. But the fact that Leo’s win is not all that mind-blowing becomes even more definitive when you expand your horizons and look at the people who have been nominated in other categories.
This is kind of a weird one. This was a young Leo, and, man, does he have some serious
Alexandre Desplat, who won the Oscar for Best Original Score last year for his
2014: “The Wolf of Wall Street” (lost to Matthew McConaughey in “Dallas Buyers Club”) Ah, Matthew. 2014 was Matthew McConaughey’s year, with his stellar work in “Mud,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” and “True Detective.” Don’t get me wrong. Leo’s work in “The Wolf of Wall Street” was among his best. The Quaaludes scene in particular is a masterclass in physical acting. But there is something to be said about the pained, often understated performance of a decaying Matthew McConaughey in “Dallas Buyer’s Club” that just can’t be topped. 2007: “Blood Diamond” (lost to Forest Whittaker in “The Last King of Scotland”) I’m going to be honest. I have a weird relationship with “Blood Diamond.” Though I found it to be entertaining and really interesting, I don’t really remember Leo’s performance. I certainly remember his performance in “The Departed,” which came out the same year but for which he wasn’t nominated. But, yeah. Forest Whittaker’s intimidating and frightening performance in “The Last King of Scotland” was something to behold. Between that and a Leo performance that I don’t remember, I, too, would give this award to Forrest. 2005: “The Aviator” (lost to Jamie Foxx in “Ray”) “The Aviator” was great! Leo was great! But, REALLY? You can’t NOT give it to Jamie Foxx in “Ray.” I mean, look at this.
work on “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” was nominated seven times before winning his eighth nomination. Those nominations weren’t for pushover movies either. He was nominated for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “The King’s Speech,” and “Argo,” among other critically acclaimed movies. There are even great examples this year. Ennio Moricone, who won this year for his riveting and foreboding score to “The Hateful Eight,” has been nominated six times and already won an Honorary Academy Award for his contributions to the “art of film music.” And can we talk about Roger Deakins?! You may not know who he is. But let me know if you’ve seen any of these movies:
“Barton Fink,” “The Secret Garden,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” “Dead Man Walking,” “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski,” “The Hurricane,” “O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “The Village,” “Jarhead,” “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (my favorite movie!), “No Country for Old Men,” “Doubt,” “The Reader,” “Revolutionary Road,” “True Grit,” “Skyfall,” and “Sicario.” You’ve probably seen a few of those. He hss been nominated for his cinematography for thirteen of them, including “Sicario” this year. He still has yet to win. If that isn’t a criminal overlooking of talent, I don’t know what is. And, just to hammer the point home, there is a man by the name of Kevin O’Connell who has been nominated 20 times for Sound Mixing and has yet to win. Twenty times. Wow. So. Yes. Leo deserved an Oscar. But he certainly didn’t deserve it at any other time when compared to his competition. Perhaps more importantly, his situation was no worse than many, many other people (not to mention the many minority members of Hollywood who are passed over year after year for nominations and wins, but that is a deep subject for another article). It may be easy to pull up a Leo meme and talk about how this “was finally his year!!!” But, as much as I love him, he doesn’t deserve the hype that he has received from the general public. Even though we like to root for the photogenic, attractive leads of Hollywood, it’s important to recognize the other outstanding work that also isn’t winning Academy Awards. Maybe now that Leo’s win is out of the way, we can finally start to do that.
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from both teams are hitting so many shots. People were hitting tough shots, too. It’s not like the other team wasn’t trying.” Duke finally strung together some stops in the second half, forcing enough lowpercentage shots to build up a nine-point edge. Then Barber caught fire again, bringing his team back to within one with 10 straight points. Ultimately, the Blue Devils made their last stand at the game’s most critical juncture, soaring past N.C. State for the third time this season—and the second straight year in the ACC tournament—to set up Thursday’s date with fourth-seeded Notre Dame. It was not Duke’s first time this season trying to defend against a last-gasp situation. Georgetown’s 3-point attempt for the win clanked off iron in late November at Madison Square Garden. Virginia’s Malcolm Brogdon snuck inside for a tough lay-up Feb. 13 before Allen delivered a buzzer-beater at the other end. And perhaps most iconically, the Blue Devils stifled North Carolina’s final shot as time wound down in Chapel Hill Feb. 17, eking out a one-point win. “We’ve been in that position before. Guys weren’t scared of the moment,” Jones said. “Guys just had to trust in our game plan and trust in the people around us, and we did that.”
they were scoring as well,” junior Matt Jones said. “We definitely have to shore things up, but they were making tough shots—we can’t have that happen again.” The regular-season meeting between Duke (23-9) and Notre Dame (20-10) was a 95-91 Fighting Irish win at Cameron Indoor Stadium Jan. 16 in a contest cut from the same cloth as the Blue Devils’ win Wednesday. With its 52 percent shooting from the field and 12 3-pointers against N.C. State, Duke surged to No. 3 in basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted offensive efficiency rankings— bumping Notre Dame down one slot to No. 4. The Fighting Irish trot out one of the most balanced starting fives in the country—each member averages at least 11.0 points per game—but, like the Blue Devils, do not get a ton of production from their bench. Point guard Demetrius Jackson merited second-team All-ACC recognition after leading Notre Dame in scoring at 15.9 points per game and dishing out the most assists in the conference at 5.0 per game. The junior has plenty of weapons to help him out on the perimeter, as both Steve Vasturia and V.J. Beachem are potent shooters from the outside who are 4-1 against Duke in their careers. On the interior, the Fighting Irish can go to third-team All-ACC selection Zach Auguste or forward Bonzie Colson—a consistent thorn in the Blue Devils’ side— for solid production. Colson torched Duke in Cameron for a career-high 31 points and eight offensive rebounds and also played a big role in Notre Dame’s ousting of the Blue Devils in last year’s ACC tournament. The sophomore forward stands just 6-foot-5, but is relentless in the paint and uses his sturdy frame well to get to his desired spots down low. Auguste also grabbed 14 rebounds in the January matchup, and Duke will have to concentrate more on keeping him and Colson off the glass if it hopes to continue vying for an ACC title. “They’re an explosive offensive
team. I’ll tell you what, a game similar to [Wednesday’s] is the game in Cameron. We both scored over 90 points,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They’re a really good offensive team and so are we. They’ll have a little bit more rest, but our guys will be ready to go. We’re both good teams, good teams that will do a good job in the NCAA tournament. I look forward to doing it.” Defending that duo will be even more difficult for the Blue Devils if their lone true big man, graduate student Marshall Plumlee, is hindered in any way after breaking his nose in Wednesday’s battle. Plumlee took an accidental elbow to the face from Jones during the second half and—after the initial cut was cleaned up— returned to play well down the stretch, but was not in the locker room postgame, instead walking with team trainer Jose Fonseca for additional treatment. Even if Plumlee returns without any lingering effects, Duke will have a tough challenge keeping pace with Notre Dame, which is no picnic to defend thanks to its motion-heavy offense. Four Blue Devils played 32 minutes or more against the Wolfpack, and now have to come back and do so again less than 24 hours later against a rested Fighting Irish squad that has been off since Saturday afternoon. Duke has gone through several stretches during which its games have been packed tightly together in the regular season, but has not played on consecutive days since its first two games of the season. Still, the Blue Devils believe those parts of their schedule—plus the increased minutes their six rotation players have been playing since Amile Jefferson’s injury in December—will help them cope with the physical demands of tournament play. “At UNC earlier this year when Matt went out, some of the guys had to play an entire half without coming out…I don’t think it will take a toll on us as a group going into next week. It may for other teams, but I don’t think it will for us,” said Kennard, who scored 30 points in the regular-season loss to the Fighting Irish. “We’ve played some Saturday-Monday games a lot earlier in the season. I think that was kind of preparing us for these back-to-back games and then next week with the NCAA tournament.”
not handle a bad hop on a ground ball that hit his chest to lead off the inning, and the Nittany Lions took advantage of the error with a single to right field and a well-placed bunt down the third-base line to load the bases with no outs. Sophomore Christian Heisel hit an RBIgrounder to second baseman Ryan Day to advance the runners, and freshman Jordan Bowersox drove in the second run with a sacrifice fly to the warning track in left field. “The two runs they scored in the fourth were self-inflicted,” Pollard said. “[We] had a chance to make a play, we didn’t execute an 0-2 pitch, didn’t communicate very well on a bunt, and that led to the runs scoring. I thought we did a good job of putting up zeroes behind that.” Duke’s bats quickly quieted down as Hedge relieved freshman starter Eli Nabholz in the fourth inning and retired the first eight batters he faced. Then the Blue Devils nearly created a bigger hole for themselves in the sixth frame when junior Karl Blum entered the contest in relief. Blum came on to relieve sophomore
southpaw James Ziemba—who walked the leadoff hitter in the inning—but the righthander walked both batters he faced before exiting. Sophomore Mitch Stallings pitched out of the jam without conceding a run in just his second appearance of the season, though, inducing a 5-2-3 double play with the corners of the infield in followed by a routine groundout to first. “It was the best part of the ballgame, for Mitch to get in there and have a really positive outing going into the weekend,” Pollard said. “To come in and compete—pick a teammate up like that—we saw Mitch do that all last year. He’s coming back off some injuries in the fall, and to get him going right before we head into ACC play is big.” Duke continued that momentum into the bottom half of the inning when Day doubled to left field with two outs, advancing Labosky to third, but freshman Griffin Conine hit a weak grounder to first to end the threat. The Blue Devils will return to the DBAP to host No. 18 Virginia Friday at 4 p.m. to open their first series of ACC play.
Matthew Rock | The Chronicle Sophomore Bonzie Colson torched the Blue Devils for 31 points in Notre Dame’s win in Durham Jan. 16.
Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Luke Kennard scored 22 points against the Wolfpack and now will face a Notre Dame squad against which he scored 30 points earlier this season.
SHOOTOUT from page 5 Devils’ tip-off, Ingram and his teammates had limited time to warm up, but it did not seem to matter Wednesday. “I was kind of concerned going into the game that we were going to only have 20 minutes to warm up,” Ingram said. “Just seeing the ball go in, it was definitely good for us.” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski took it a step further, suggesting the Blue Devils might condense their warm-ups to 20 minutes for all games going forward. Duke’s defense, though, left much to be desired, as N.C. State’s 89 points came on 55.4 percent shooting, including a torrid 62.9 percent clip in the first 20 minutes that allowed the Wolfpack to hang a season-high 53 points on the Blue Devils. Some of the shots were difficult, contested 3-pointers, but others were easy—wrap-around passes for finishes at the rim, and blow-bys off the dribble for lay-ups. “What we said at halftime is, ‘Look, you can’t play this game like it’s Saturday afternoon in the gym’.... It’s fun for them because they didn’t play any defense for most of the game,” Krzyzewski joked. “You’re amazed as a coach that these kids
BASEBALL from page 5 hitting sophomore Jack Labosky in the leg and walking sophomore Ryan Day—but Jalen Phillips hit a harmless comebacker with the bases loaded to end the inning. The closer pitched a perfect ninth to complete the four-out save. After both starters retired the first six opposing batters of the game, the offenses briefly came alive in the third inning. The Nittany Lions stranded runners on first and second in the top half before two walks and a single by sophomore Peter Zyla loaded the bases for the Blue Devils in the bottom of the frame. Freshman Zack Kone struck out for the first out of the inning, but sophomore Max Miller hit a shallow fly ball to right field that barely scored Evan Dougherty from third for Duke’s lone run. Penn State closed the gap right away, rallying for its only two runs in the fourth inning off Blue Devil starter Kellen Urbon. Sophomore first baseman Jack Labosky could
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here are a few more days to take advantage of the Freeman Center’s early voting site, which runs through this Friday. Cast your vote now before you miss out on your chance to participate. Of course, this time around it is difficult to not be aware that the elections are underway—the airwaves are saturated with poll results and Donalds waiting to be made “Drumpf again”. Yet for all the talk, in this election perhaps more than others, it feels as though the policies have taken a backseat to the politics and severely subverted in discourse. The emphasis on style and image in elections is not new. Warren Harding who is often considered one of the worst American presidents has had his speeches described as “an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.” Television had its own impact in sending JFK forward over Nixon in the 1960 election. What is new this cycle is news media, particularly social media which accelerates and fragments, allowing for short, viral sound bites, GIFs and memes devoid of context. These hog an ever-shifting and shrinking public attention span. Petty
feuds and inappropriate comments dominate the Republican race; likewise, Hillary has her millennial-speak and emojis while Bernie his memes. Reporting continues, but peppered with “100 words or less” summaries, even at established and respected journalistic houses. Comedians have had a field day roasting everything in sight. This acceleration and caricature-made-reality
Editorial of politics reflects and sustains an electorate that is generally less willing to take the time to digest intricate policies. The election turns itself into a competition of pathos appeals. It is no new tactic to play to the fears and dreams of voters, but the trend and oversimplification of issues is amplified by our digital age. The success of the appeals that have defined this election reveals a disillusionment in our electorate. People are tired of the same kinds of politicians and do not see themselves represented in our capital. Any disruption scratches an itch. Unfortunately, in this election, this disruption has manifested
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et me tell you a story about emails. I was given an official email to use for my work after I became the Vice Chair of my group. I started using this email 24/7 to help students with funding. Slowly the line between work life and personal life became blurred. My classmates started sharing group projects with this email, my close colleagues and friends started sending quick personal messages through this email. I started to think that email was really mine. Then in the whirlwind of campaigning to become the Chair for my group, I didn’t think twice about campaigning using that email. I thought I did nothing wrong, but I was mistaken. As the Vice Chair of SOFC Programming Fund, I sent some campaign emails using my SOFC Programming Fund account to students that I’ve worked with. I should not have done that because it was unfair to campaign with an email that has “SOFC” in its name. I see now that it can easily be perceived as a misuse of my authority as the Vice Chair. It was a very foolish mistake, and I accept that I should pay dearly for it. I’m sorry to everyone who voted for me in the elections. I will no longer serve as SOFC Chair 2016-2017, but I believe Alexa will do a great job. I’m especially sorry to Alexa for unintentionally making our playing field uneven. I promise that it was not an deliberate act but a momentary
lapse in judgment. Beyond extending my apologies, I would also like to thank many wonderful people that have helped me in the appeal process. Thank you to all the campaign email recipients who sent me statements of support for the appeal. I really appreciate your kind words of encouragement. Thank you to all of my friends and loved ones who enveloped me with positive energy through the rough times. You gave me the courage to be brave. Thank you especially to Jennifer Colton who acted as my representative for the appeal. You are a superstar, and the McFlurry we had after the hearing was divine. I intend to continue serving on SOFC in the year to come. SOFC is my biggest passion at Duke. I love the work I do with the committee, and I love helping students to get the funding they deserve. This personal mistake should not stop me from participating in such a worthy cause, and it won’t. I very much look forward to working with the SOFC members of 2016 and 2017. TL;DR, Bernie said it best: “the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your emails!” So I will end this here. Thank you for reading! Gwen Geng Trinity ‘18
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always have had a difficult time making decisions. When my friends and I went to dinner in high school, picking the restaurant was never my job because they knew we would not eat until 10 p.m. by the time I selected a place. Strange as it sounds, when prepping for an exam, my favorite moment is walking into the classroom a minute before the test. At this point, I bear no more responsibility for what I should
For instance, when contemplating where to study abroad, I cannot shake off a sense of paralysis. This feels like the most important decision I need to make right now even though I know I will have an exciting and enriching experience wherever I go. I will eat amazing food, explore new cities and expand my mind. I can think about this quite rationally when I take a step back, but I find myself stuck when it comes to actually deciding.
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study or what I can do. It is simply time to take the test, which feels like a relief. My friends used to set a time limit for me in dressing rooms because of one notable occasion where I spent far too long trying on each outfit, over and over. When I searched for a prom dress, I ended up loving the very first one I tried on. Yet still, I insisted on going to four other places before deciding that it was, in fact, the most beautiful one. This exasperated my mother, but I had to know nothing else was out there that I could have missed. I don’t care much about my clothes, but in those specific moments, it’s as though I form a deep attachment to every potential purchase. When the favorite shirt I tried on doesn’t come in my size, it feels like a genuine disappointment. If I had never walked into the store the shirt would not have crossed my mind, but now I know what I could have had. I recognize the absurdity of this train of thought. It is irrational to expend mental energy on such unimportant matters. I regard myself as a sensible person, but once options enter my field of vision, often I find myself immobilized by them. My sense of purpose and intentionality erodes. Five hours later when I am out of the store and engaged in other activities, of course I am no longer lamenting about the shirt I couldn’t buy. I like to think that when it comes down to the important things—who I spend time with, what I value and the type of life I want to live—I know what I want. But when considering tangible options, big or small, I have a difficult time choosing quickly and pushing the others aside. Even after I have weighed out potential outcomes and made a decision, I circle back to the same internal conversations. I will not be satisfied with what I choose until I experience it and know it has all worked out. I have a difficult time grappling with the unknown. I need to latch on to something set and defined. Like everyone else, I have to make choices for the future that will not play out until months later, like choosing a summer job or where to study abroad. I need to know both sides of the debate before I can make informed decisions. But even when I make what I believe to be a good choice, I fixate on the loss of the opportunity not chosen. Without a doubt, there are positive aspects to this mentality. It makes me organized, thorough and invested. I know why I do things and do not stumble through life haphazardly. But at the same time, I want to find peace of mind. I want to know with conviction that I can always get myself to a place of clarity and acceptance.
In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz writes that when faced with many desirable choices, people begin to evaluate hypothetical tradeoffs in terms of missed opportunities instead of an opportunity’s potential. I cannot stop lamenting the opportunity cost of what I could have done and always want to minimize lack of satisfaction or mistakes. In an article exploring a similar subject, my friend describes Maximizers, or the “people who will exhaust all resources to ensure they’ve found the best possible option or done the best possible job. It could mean hours on Ratemyprofessor, 20 college applications or interviewing every person you know about their favorite class at Duke. On the other hand, it also can mean regret, exhaustion, buyer’s remorse and according to many studies, lower levels of life satisfaction.” Reading this, I couldn’t help but laugh as I recalled the fifty classes I book bag on ACES during registration, the numerous professors I email to read syllabi and texts I send to older friends asking for class suggestions. Of course my class schedule does not dictate my quality of life, but I get overly wrapped up in the process of choosing. I forget that less-than-ideal experiences are as important as great ones because they help me to determine what works for me and what does not. I will not likely take 32 incredible courses at Duke before I graduate. Every day abroad will probably not be the best day of my life. I will not have four flawless summer internships that I love equally before finding a permanent job. Mediocre experiences bring forth a new and different type of value and learning. Perhaps this behavior stems from my inherent type A-ness: the desire to always find the optimum experience, if doing so is in my control. Maybe it comes from a fear of being unhappy. I wonder if this simply is the way my brain is wired. Regardless of the source, I want to learn how to curb the constant whirring of my mind. I like to plan in a straight line, to envision a future life, to wrap my mind around a projection I can craft. But time unfolds at its own pace. Instead of agonizing over choices already made and then letting go, I want to reduce the period of moving on. The lingering what-ifs feel toxic. I shouldn’t doubt my intuition so much because there are few things in my life I deeply regret. I do not know how, but I want to become comfortable heading in one direction and not looking back. Carly Stern is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays.
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Black Lives Matter sign. When I first came to Duke as a freshman, I was told during orientation week that the narrative of the campus divide was “everyone versus the fraternities.” But now it seems as if the controversy centers around the BSA and Duke Enrage. Why? While we all believe that racism is bad, we don’t all understand racism in the same way. While I have lived as a minority for a cumulative eight years in Europe and Africa, I am still a Caucasian and can’t speak to the minority experiences in America with any authority. The only experience I can claim is that I have seen racism in many different contexts. I know little. But the swirling controversy and wide range of thought on this subject compels me to try to understand. And so, what I offer will not be from a profound experience of race and racism, but from what I think about the nature of right, wrong and the reality of the human condition. I don’t want this to be political (though it will have political implications); I want to rethink our constructs of racism and moral responsibility. Even though these incidents have faded into our campus’s history, they still influence our present. The demands made to President Brodhead have resulted in the formation of the Task Force against Hate and Bias, whose members will try to address these issues. But if we truly seek to solve these problems, we need to make sure we understand them in the first place. Is racism a wrong action or thought or a less desirable social condition? Assuming a transcendent moral framework exists, it is a genuinely wrong thought or action. What that means is that it cannot be completely eliminated through education and social conditioning since it arises from humanity’s inherent self-centeredness and propensity to do wrong. How, then, do we understand institutional racism? If an institution is a “stable, valued, recurring pattern of behavior,” institutional racism is the codification and normalization of racism in society. No matter how prevalent you believe racism and institutional racism are today, the key thing to keep in mind here is that both racism and institutional racism ultimately come from people. It doesn’t matter if you are a part of the majority or a minority; you still have a propensity to be racist. It has been argued that the acts
of racism by minorities are irrelevant because the racism by the majority has had a significantly more damaging effect. And it is true that racism by those who hold power has been more historically and universally damaging. This truly speaks to the evil of racism when it is combined with power. However, it should also be noted that the lack of bad effects does not mean something inherently wrong is morally acceptable. At the foundational level, what’s wrong
with the “Duke, You Are Guilty” slogan is that it rests on the postmodern construct of oppressors and victims. The postmodern thought that drives our society says that if you have been hurt and wounded, then you are a victim. Victims are inherently blameless, and those who are not victims or their allies are by default guilty oppressors. Although we tend to romanticize victims as underdogs and heroes, the pitfall of this construct is that it precludes true justice by allaying individual moral agency and responsibility for both victims and oppressors. If every human being has a propensity to do wrong and has done wrong, then every person is both a victim of wrongdoing and an oppressor of others on either a macro or a micro level. True moral responsibility occurs and true justice is possible when we take into account both how people have been wronged as well as the wrongdoing they have done. When we are fighting against racism, the fight is not ultimately against a machine or an establishment; it is against the evil that is in every person and in every human heart. Education may have the power to inform, but it cannot transform. While laws and behavioral regulations can mitigate the effect of evil, they cannot eradicate evil, because evil will always find a loophole. The only way to produce sustainable change is to transform the very source of racism, which is the heart. Another problem with the victimoppressor dichotomy is that it draws each side into self-centeredness. “Victims” demonize a broad category of “oppressors,” and “oppressors” angrily lash back as both sides settle into their spiraling trenches of self-righteous segregation. So far, this has not transformed hearts or brought healing to our campus. But Jesus proposes another way, with which I challenge you and myself. “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” He addressed these words to Jews who had been beaten down for years by brutal Roman rule. His call is to change hearts by overcoming evil with good and counting others more significant than ourselves. Do we dare to do what our campus is scared to do? Addison Merryman is a Trinity junior. His column normally runs on alternate Thursdays.
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