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Duke associate head coach Jeff Capel will become the next head coach of Pittsburgh after agreeing on a seven-year contract with the school Tuesday, as first reported by 247Sports’ Evan Daniels. Both programs later confirmed the hire. Pittsburgh will be the third head coaching job of Capel’s career. Capel served as an assistant coach for Duke for the last seven seasons, but prior to returning to his alma mater, Capel was the head coach at VCU from 2002-06 and later at Oklahoma from 2006-11. The Fayetteville, N.C., native compiled a 162-110 record between the two programs, excluding 13 vacated wins in 2009-10 with the Sooners due to an assistant coach’s alleged recruiting violations. “Pittsburgh just made an amazing hire to lead its men’s basketball program. Having come from a proud basketball family, Jeff Capel is one of the most dynamic coaches in the country,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in a statement. “He possesses championshiplevel experience as both a head and assistant coach, as well as distinct knowledge of the Atlantic Coast Conference that will benefit Pitt immediately.” Krzyzewski added, “I want to thank Jeff for being directly by my side for the past seven years and completely committed to our mission at Duke and with USA Basketball. His insight, passion for the game, relationships with our players, and most importantly, his friendship have meant the world to me and my family. “ Yuexuan Chen | Contributing Photographer Members of Duke Democrats organized a carpool for about 30 college students to the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C.

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WASHINTON—Saturday, hundreds of thousands of marchers filled the streets of Washington to protest school gun violence in the March for Our Lives. Each speaker at the march was in elementary, middle or high school. Some Duke students also drove up to the District for the march. Duke Democrats organized a carpool of about 30 college students to attend the Washington event, in addition to Duke students traveling to the Raleigh and Durham march—all part of the more than 800 marches scheduled for across the country that day. The Chronicle’s Yuexuan Chen attended the march in Washington with members of Duke Democrats. Before heading to Washington, one carpool group picked up a couple of students from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “We were in bed and thinking that it might be a Duke joke and that you guys weren’t really coming,” said Cody Allen, a first-year

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at UNC. Leah Abrams, president of Duke Democrats and an opinion page managing editor for The Chronicle, was at a gun control rally in the UNC quad last week when she met UNC first-year Molly Cartwright. While a group was getting their picture taken, Cartwright asked if anyone was going to Washington and Abrams gave her contact information to Cartwright, saying that the Duke Democrats were going and that she could come along. Once in Washington, we trusted that the stream of people was all going towards the march. Though the march was organized by students, we saw babies and grandparents in the crowd. A grandpa held a sign that said, “I’m with the teens.” A grandma’s sign read, “Grandparents are proud of you. You will make a difference.” “Tik Tok,” “Black or White,” “Mr. Brightside” and other pop hits blasted from the speakers on stage before the event began. Marchers held up brightly colored, homemade posters bearing sharply worded See MARCH on Page 3

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Sanjeev Dasgupta | Sports Photo Editor Jeff Capel was part of the Blue Devil coaching staff for the last seven years after head coaching stints at VCU and Oklahoma.

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Duke voices: The gun violence revolution

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Want to see some puppies? Study shows sustained, sporadic This Duke center will let you exercise offer similar benefits By Claire Ballentine Towerview Editor

Do you miss your dog at home? Are you stressed out over midterms? Is Nugget’s appeal getting old? Duke Canine Cognition Center’s puppy kindergarten has you covered. The project, which started during Spring Break this year, is training two puppies to be service dogs through Canine Companions for Independence, an organization that provides free assistance dogs to adults, children and

veterans with disabilities. The two newest members of puppy kindergarten are a golden retriever named Kyler and a black lab named Ernie, who are each about 12 weeks old. So far, they’ve been adjusting to life in Durham and took part in the Spring Breakthrough course led by Brian Hare, associate professor of evolutionary anthropology and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center. “The puppies will be here through [the] See PUPPIES on Page 4

Special to the Chronicle The Duke Canine Cognition Center is training two puppies to be service dogs—one is a golden retriever named Kyler and the other is a black lab named Ernie.

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Confused about how much exercise you need each week to be healthy? You’re not alone. A new Duke study is providing insight that may help. The research—led by William Kraus, professor of medicine at the School of Medicine—found that whether exercise was sustained or sporadic, it offered the same benefits in reducing mortality over a given period. “For this study, we were interested in studying short bouts of moderate to vigorous activity to see whether they would offer the same benefits in terms of reducing risk of chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease and death,” Kraus wrote in an email. In the past 30 years, guidelines have said that moderate to vigorous activity could improve health, but only if the activity was done for 10 minutes or more. However, this new research revealed that even short bursts of activity like walking up and down stairs can be beneficial, as long as the intensity is at a moderate or vigorous level. For most people, an example of moderate exercise would be walking at a speed that makes it difficult to have a conversation, while vigorous exercise includes activities like jogging. Kraus and researchers from the National Cancer Institute used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

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between 2003 and 2006. In particular, they looked at 4,840 people 40 and older who had worn accelerometers for the survey to measure their physical activity and exertion. In 2011, 4,140 of the participants were still living. They found that the participants who did less than 20 minutes of moderate or vigorous activity each day had the highest risk of dying during the study. Those who received 60 minutes per day reduced their risk of death over a 10-year period by 57 percent and those who did 100 minutes cut the risk by 76 percent. “We were able to look at increments as small as one minute and found that it’s the accumulated amount of time that you’re getting this activity each day and each week that lead to health benefits, in this case, death over a 10-year period,” Kraus noted. He explained that it doesn’t matter whether you get that activity in short sessions of a few minutes at a time—it all adds up, and when you can get at least 30 minutes most days of the week, you’re going to see a reduced risk of death in the next 10 years. “Those who benefit most are people who have been sedentary and start exercising— they’re going to cut their death risk by more than half,” he noted. “Those who are more active will still see increased benefit. And the great news, more is even better.” So what does Kraus recommend for people See EXERCISE on Page 4

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“He pulls out a silver pistol, points it in my face and says these words that to this day haunt me and give me nightmares,” FROM PAGE 1 Mya said. “He said ‘If you say anything, I will find you’ and yet, I am still saying something today.” slogans—ready, aim, reform; a red pen should be my only Matt Post, a student leader from Sandy Spring, Md., weapon; arms are for hugging; the people who wrote the called on his generation to be the new “diverse, inclusive and second amendment shat in ditches; I am not a target; why must compassionate face of America” that leads the country on a children be braver than politicians? path towards righteousness. More than a dozen speakers, all teenagers, gave personal “If we march today, canvas tomorrow and vote 227 days narratives of their experiences with gun violence. There from now, we will make this a turning point for our country,” were dropped papers, stutters, pauses to refocus their jitters, Post said. fumbling page turns—even a nervous barf—but they spoke Yolanda Renee King, the granddaughter of Martin passionately and made powerful calls to action. Luther King, Jr., said she dreamed of a gun free world. She lead the crowd of marchers in a chant—”Spread the word! ‘It is just the beginning’ Have you heard? All across the nation! We! Are going to be! Cameron Kasky, the Stoneman Douglas student who asked A great generation!” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) if he was going to accept any more Three students from Newtown, Conn. presented a banner NRA donations, set the tone as the first speaker. that said “Newtown High School stands with Stoneman “Politicians: either represent the people or get out,” Kasky Douglas.” Other students—including MSD survivors Jaclyn said. “The people demand a law banning Corin, Ryan Deitsch, Aaliyah Eastmond, the sale of assault weapons. The people I don’t think I could’ve anticipated how moving it would be and Samantha Fuentes and Emma Gonzalez— demand we prohibit the sale of high capacity spoke at the rally. magazines. We demand universal background how awestruck I would be seeing people as young as 11 up there Celebrities, including Miley Cyrus, Demi checks. Stand for us, or beware—the voters organizing. I really believed in what they said—that this is a Lovato, Lin Manuel-Miranda, Vic Mensa, are coming.” Hudson, Ben Platt and Ariana Grande, revolution and that our generation is going to be the one to lead it. Jennifer Reading the names of his gunned down performed at the event. classmates, Kasky saved his classmate Nicholas “There might be musicians on this stage, but leah abrams for last to commemorate him on what would this is not Coachella. We might have movie stars PRESIDENT OF DUKE DEMOCRATS have been his birthday. in the crowd, but this is not the Oscars,” said “The march is not the climax, it is the Ryan Deitsch, a MSD survivor. “This is real life.” beginning,” Kasky said. “It is the springboard off of which activist since the shooting, also spoke at the rally, pointing The entire crowd froze in confusion when Deitsch said, “We my generation and all who stand with us will jump into a out that first-time voters show up at 18 percent at midterm need to arm our teachers. We need to arm them.” After a pause, safer future.” he added, “We need to arm our teachers with pencils, pens, elections. Trevon Bosley, a 19-year-old from Chicago, lost his brother paper and the money they need to support their families!” “Not anymore,” he said. in a 2006 shooting. His brother was leaving a church when he One of the other speakers, Samantha Fuentes, vomited from Naomi Wadler is an 11-year-old from Washington. She was shot and killed. He challenged society to care about all lead the walkout at her local elementary school with her friend her jitters during her speech. “I just threw up on international communities equally, and said that “everyday shootings are Carter, the young activist told the crowd. television, and it feels great!” everyday problems.” Gonzalez, another of the MSD survivors who has become “I am here today to represent the African American girls Delaney Tarr, a student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas, whose stories that don’t make the front page of every national a prominent activist, spoke and led a moment of silence, highlighted the urgency of the movement. newspaper,” Wadler said. “I represent the African American choosing to stay on stage for six minutes and 20 seconds, the “This is more than just a march, this is more than just one day, women who are victims of gun violence who are simply statistics length of the shooting. one event and them moving on. This not a mere publicity stunt,” instead of vibrant beautiful girls full of potential.” she said. “This is a movement that relies on the persistence and ‘This is what democracy looks like!’ Sixteen-year-old Mya Middleton of Chicago said she passion of its people. We cannot move on.” was going to the grocery store when she saw a man coming See MARCH on Page 4 Sarah Chadwick, a survivor from the MSD shooting, called towards her. out Florida Senator Marco Rubio specifically for his stance on gun violence. “When you take 3,140,167, the number of students enrolled in Florida schools, and divide it by 3,303,355, the amount of money Marco Rubio has received from the NRA, it comes out to $1.05,” she said. “Is that what we’re worth to these politicians? Was $17.85 all it cost you that day, Mr. Rubio?” Chadwick went on, challenging politicians to question whether their right to own guns come before students’ lives. She warned them they would be voted out by students, and future voters, who would not allow “a price to be put on our lives.” “I have lived in South LA my entire life and have lost many loved ones to gun violence,” Edna Chavez, a 17-year-old from South Los Angeles, said. “This is normal to the point that I have learned to duck from bullets before I learned how to read… I lost more than my brother that day, I lost my hero. I lost my mother, my sister and myself to that trauma and anxiety.” David Hogg, a MSD survivor who has been a prominent

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MARCH FROM PAGE 3 “That was an experience,” Duke first-year Temi Adekunle said. Walking back to our car parked two miles away after the march ended, we heard a loud boom. It turned out to be probably just a microphone dropping that sounded on the loudspeakers, but it took a few seconds for our heartbeats to return to normal. Standing in front of pink and white cherry blossoms swaying with the wind, a row of high school kids chanted, “This is what democracy looks like! Tell me what democracy looks like!” “I don’t think I could’ve anticipated how moving it would be and how awestruck I would be seeing people as young as 11 up there organizing,” Abrams said. “I really believed in what they said—that this is a revolution and that our generation is going to be the one to lead it. I felt that this issue is so tied to the issue of federal congressman

taking money from the NRA.” “I decided to come to the march because once I heard about the Parkland shooting. I was really inspired seeing them speaking,” Adekunle said. “My sister is in school... My high school went on lockdown because of a nearby school shooting.” The other students also remembered how gun violence had affected their time before Duke. Allen, a first-year from UNC, said he lost a friend to a shooting at a nearby high school. “It’s something that you watch your friends go through and they never really recover from,” Allen said. Abrams said that gun violence is an issue that touches ever community in the country. Adekunle said she appreciated how inclusive and intersectional the rally was, and that the Parkland students shared their platform with students from communities that did not get the media attention they did. “[The march] showed the power of all of standing together really beautiful,” Cartwright said. “We can all get on board with kids not dying.”

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EXERCISE FROM PAGE 2 trying to make time for exercise in their busy schedules? He emphasized the importance of incorporating physical activity throughout the day by taking the stairs or setting a goal to move every hour. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services guidelines currently recommend at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous activity each week. Kraus hopes that the updated guidelines—expected to be released later this year—allow these less time-intensive activities to count toward a new recommendation of 150300 minutes total of moderate to vigorous physical activity each week. His personal advice for his patients is to track their steps and to get at least 10,000 a day. “It’s pretty hard to get to 10,000 steps in a day around a full workday without going for at least a walk, a jog or other form of purposeful moderate-intensity activity,” he said. “I believe if people set this as a goal, they’re going to get the minimum recommended exercise in a week.”

PUPPIES FROM PAGE 2 end of the semester,” explained Kyle Smith, the lab’s manager. “After their time here, they will go on to be placed with puppy raisers who take care of them and teach them basic commands, then more formal training.” In the meantime, the lab has 58 volunteers who each come in for two-hour shifts from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. to care for the puppies and train them. “They also just take them around campus to socialize them, to get them used to sights and smells and people so they can become service dogs,” Smith said. Think these volunteer spots were highly sought after? You’re right. Smith noted that more than 700 people were initially interested in the positions. Volunteers had to attend mandatory info sessions and were required to take a Coursera course. Senior Elizabeth Anne Brown is one of the lucky students selected as a volunteer. She explained that one of her favorite parts of the role is taking the puppies around campus to places like the library and the Allen Building. Dogs have this really special “The puppies connection with people. are not so great at walking on their vanessa woods leashes,” she said. RESEARCH SCIENTIST IN THE EVOLUTIONARY “They like to be ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT carried everywhere they go.” Although the volunteer spots are currently all filled, you can apply again in the fall. Vanessa Woods, a research scientist in evolutionary anthropology who is involved with the puppy kindergarten, explained that the puppies have provided an overwhelming sense of joy so far. “All the research is showing that dogs are this incredible emotional support for people,” she said. “Dogs have this really special connection with people.” This is especially true for undergraduates who may be missing their dogs at home, she added. Some students have been so happy to see the puppies that they were almost moved to tears. The puppies have not yet been involved in any research projects, but Smith said they are hoping to test some of the puppies and see how their cognitive abilities develop over time. One goal is to predict accurately which dogs will be successful service dogs. He noted that most people focus on labradors and golden retrievers as prime service dog candidates because they are fairly calm, obedient and easily trainable. “We don’t have any technology that can help people as well as these dogs can,” Woods said. “They can turn light switches on and off, they can open doors, they can do your laundry.” Woods added that there is a gap in research following young dogs longitudinally, which is something the lab hopes to do in the future. She also emphasized the importance of the work done by Canine Companions for Independence. If you’re dying to see the puppies, Smith said you can stop by their lab in Bio Sci room 002A to meet them. Woods added that it will be hard to let Kyler and Ernie go at the end of the semester, but that knowing they are going to Canine Companions for Independence will make it easier. “We love these puppies, but we know were doing to love the next puppies, and we know we’re sending them off into the world to help people,” she said.

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Do I deserve to be at Duke? It’s a question I’m sure every student has asked themselves, and one that my ethics professor, in so many words, posed to the class last week as we discussed the merits of the “I worked for it, I earned it” mentality. I thought about it: Do I deserve to be at Duke? Throughout the progression of my college experience, my answer to this question has changed. If you’d asked me the moment I received my acceptance I would’ve given a hearty “Yes, of course!” and why wouldn’t I have? Like many Duke students, I worked hard in high school and I graduated at the top of my class — I was smart, and smart students deserve to go to good schools like Duke. That, of course, is not the mentality that stuck with me through most of my college experience. The fact that I worked hard in high school and that I graduated at the top of my class didn’t change, but the final part of the equation — that, because of that, I was smart — did. I’d never really thought about what it meant to be smart, and I’d never needed to. My grades and my test scores were good, so it didn’t matter to me if I was actually learning, or if my classes helped me grow as a person (things I would argue did not matter to the colleges I was applying to, either). So when all of a sudden I wasn’t getting great grades and my test scores were not above average, I no longer had the on-paper proof to back up the claim that I was smart. So my answer abruptly changed to “no” — I didn’t deserve to be at Duke. Not only was I no longer smart, I wasn’t even trying to “be the bigger person” by putting extra work into the classes I was doing poorly in. In my mind, I wasn’t doing poorly because I wasn’t putting in

the effort; I was doing poorly because I was not smart enough to do well. I would ask myself: If the admissions office had known I would be barely passing my chemistry classes and relatively uninvolved on campus, would they still have sent my application through? Was there some admissions counselor out there tracking my progress, determining whether or not they had made a mistake by letting me in?

staff note This sentiment is obviously not uncommon to the Duke experience. We’re all challenged, and we’re supposed to be. But to the point of feeling like we don’t belong? Undermining our own work with feelings of incompetence and inadequacy? It doesn’t feel like that’s a normal phase in life all undergraduates need to go through. So my answer remained “no” for a long

time, and sometimes I think it still is. But now I believe what’s more important is to re-examine the question. What does it mean to deserve to be at Duke? If it’s the criteria of a few admissions counselors, it’s safe to say we’ve all passed that test. If it’s hard work, I would again say that most people at Duke fit that criterion. Or maybe it’s that we’re using what we learn to make the world a better place? If that’s the case, Duke should probably just do away with half of the Economics department. What I’ve landed on is a weird limbo. Do I deserve to be at Duke? Maybe, maybe not. But I also don’t not deserve to be here. Despite the stress and despite sometimes feeling like I don’t belong, I have gained a few things from my Duke experience, and at some point, that’s all I need to expect. I’ve taken classes with content that I would be hard-pressed to recite now, and I’ve taken classes that have changed the way I think about the world. I’ve met people for the worse, and I’ve (mostly) met people for the better. Whether or not I do deserve to be here, it doesn’t change the fact that I can take something from my experience — saying I don’t deserve it just precludes me from enjoying the benefits. —Georgina Del Vecho

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Duke Coffeehouse’s Brickside Music Festival aims to educate, entertain By Selena Qian Staff Writer

On April 7, the Duke Coffeehouse will open its doors at 1:30 p.m., four and a half hours before its usual Saturday opening time. From 2 p.m. to 2 a.m., a continuous stream of artists will perform as part of the annual Brickside Music Festival, the Coffeehouse’s biggest event of the year, hosted in collaboration with the campus radio station WXDU. The lineup this year includes artists from a variety of different genres, including hip-hop, Americana and electronic music. Junior Zoe Abedon, general manager of Duke Coffeehouse and former general manager of WXDU, said the festival also aims to incorporate local artists. Ahleuchatistas, for instance, is an instrumental math rock duo from Asheville, N.C., which is also home to Tashi Dorji and Sarah Louise. Other local artists include Professor Toon and Treee City, who live right here in Durham, and de Fontaine from Carrboro. Other artists in the lineup include Laurel Halo, Bill Orcutt and Xiu Xiu. Unlike other music festivals, Brickside is looking not as much for a big headliner as for groups that many people have not been exposed to before. “We’ve got a couple bands that people might know, but we’ve got a couple that are new for me even,” said senior Wesley Caretto, former general manager of Duke Coffeehouse. “So really we want to expose people to new sounds. They might find a new favorite band, you know?” Junior Evan Morgan, booking manager at Duke Coffeehouse, said the process was fun and rewarding but also stressful. He started sending emails to artists for Brickside in early September and has had to plan the festival

along with the multitude of smaller shows at the Coffeehouse; there will be a total of 14 other single-act shows this semester. While Morgan has wanted to manage booking since he started working at the Coffeehouse in his first year, he said it was more difficult than he expected. “Every single contract is a completely different story in terms of how easy it is to get the artist to sign and sign correctly,” Morgan said. “If one thing’s off, it gets sent back to me and I have to send it back to the artist.” This year, Morgan hoped to create more cohesion between the artists than previous years so that people would stay at the festival beyond the specific artist they came to see. That way, people would gain exposure to new artists, whether they intended to or not. However, he still wanted to keep the usual diversity in genre that Brickside is known for. The common thread this year is experimental and underground music, which Morgan said has a big following in the Triangle region. Along with the concerts inside, Brickside will feature vendors, free pizza and an open mic outdoors in the parking lot. Abedon and Caretto both called the Coffeehouse space “intimate,” differentiating Brickside from many other music festivals, where acts would be distributed across multiple stages in a wider area. The cost is also notably lower than other festivals, at $15 for Duke students and $20 for community members. “Even if you’ve never been to Coffeehouse before, you’re not familiar with the space, Brickside is a really cool way to experience it for the first time,” Abedon said. “I encourage everyone to come out, even if they don’t know any of the artists. We curate this to be fun and educational for everyone.”

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Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Electronic musician Laurel Halo, pictured in 2015, is one of the artists featured in the lineup of Brickside.

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Wired! Lab’s ‘Statues Speak’ brings campus monuments to life By Ashley Kwon Staff Writer

While incoming first-year students are visiting during Blue Devil Days, a Wired! Lab project team, “Statues Speak,” will display the first phase of its result to new students and other Duke visitors. The final products of the project will have two main components, an app and a website with audio files. Each statue on West and East Campus will have a QR code attached to it. Scanning the code with a smartphone will direct the viewers to a website, where they can listen to the stories behind the statue, narrated mostly by members of the Duke and Durham communities. The team is also developing an app called Duke Explore that leads a virtual tour of Duke, starting from West Campus and ending on East Campus. The app will also include three-dimensional models of the statues and audio narratives with accompanying transcripts. Elizabeth Baltes, assistant professor of visual arts at Coastal Carolina University, organized the project. As a former Ph.D. student at Duke, she was one of the first members of the Wired! Lab when it was launched in the spring of 2009 as a combination of art history and digital technology. Baltes found inspiration for “Statues Speak” in a project in London in which statues on the street told their stories, narrated by celebrities, when the viewers took a picture of the QR codes on the statues. Like London, Duke had numerous statues on campus to which people did not pay enough attention, prompting Baltes to create “Statues Speak” while she was still a student. Although she originally began working with Duke students, she also got students at

Coastal Carolina University to be involved in the project when she became a professor at the school. “I thought it was important to have students work on this from both angles, because it is a great learning experience for them to collaborate with people from different universities,” Baltes said. “It draws attention to the fact that this is not just an issue about statues at Duke. These are addressing much bigger questions that are of interest to everyone.” Except for one, which was voiced by a visiting bronze sculptor at Coastal Carolina, all recordings are voiced by members of the Durham community. “It makes the past present,” Baltes said. “To have a voice of someone who we might see around Durham or on campus gets with the idea that [the statues] are living things.” Particularly notable among the recordings — along with President Vincent Price and former President Richard Brodhead — is the voice of Provost Sally Kornbluth. Baltes said it was important to have the highest ranking female official at Duke narrate the story of the only statue of a woman, that of a female nurse among the 65th General Hospital Memorial statues near Duke Hospital. Students also play key roles in the project. Junior Mary Weggeland reviews photos of statues to ensure that the audience sees the best representations of them. With her experiences in using digital tools for art historical research, she has also been working with Baltes and other professors at Duke on adding information about the statues to the database for the Duke Explore app and uploading audio files. “It really is an all-encapsulating technology

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Courtesy of Wired! Lab The James B. Duke statue in front of the Chapel has been the subject of numerous pranks and protests.

that is great for visitors and provides a good experience of seeing Duke’s campus through historical lens of the statuary,” Weggeland said. Jo Kwon, a masters of computational media student in the Art, Art History and Visual Studies department, has been involved in photographing the 65th General Hospital Memorial statues and turning them into a three-dimensional model. “I have been seeing so many statues on Duke’s campus, but I never paid attention to them,” Kwon said. “I learn [through the project] more about Duke and Durham’s history overall.” Looking forward to displaying their

results during Blue Devil Days, Baltes and the students involved in the project hoped that viewers would be able to discover the different perspectives behind the stories that each statue told. “I think viewers have a tendency to want to see portrait statues, because [due to] the nature of portrait statues, they want to see [the statues] as historical records or documents … and forget the idea that statues are not neutral,” Baltes said. “They tend to frame the position of the person who paid for it in a positive way, and I want to draw attention to the idea that statues do tell stories, just like people so, and they are biased, just like people are.”

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Three artists to explore disability and the arts at the Nasher By Keyin Lu Staff Writer

On Saturday afternoon, the Nasher Museum of Art will host an event called “Disability and the Arts” as the culmination of Disability Pride Week. For the last few years, Duke Disability Alliance has put on a week of programming that aims to raise awareness and celebrate the diversity of students with disabilities on campus. In partnership with the Nasher, DDA will bring three artists to campus this year as part of the event to highlight the generative capacities of people with disabilities. Antoine Hunter, a deaf dancer, Barbara Barnes, a local visual artist and Carrie Sandahl, a professor of Disability and Human Development, will all be in attendance. The three guests cover the fields of dance, visual art and film, respectively. In addition to the lineup of speakers, there will be a catered reception and a sensory tour to conclude the event. This tour will provide those who are visually impaired an audio guided tour of the galleries and allow for a more complete experience. ASL interpreters will also be present during the entirety of the event. Hunter is the founder of Urban Jazz Dance and dances using the vibrations of the music. His dance is powerful yet nuanced and shatters the idea that deafness is a limitation for dance. Myra Weise, visitor services manager at the Nasher, said Hunter’s dance is “thrilling to watch.” “As someone with dance training, I know the trust you need to have of your body internally to move your body in space,” Weise said. Barnes is a local artist from Carrboro and she will be doing live art sketches at the event. She received her B.F.A. in painting from

Syracuse University and has since expanded recreation and arts programming for rural communities in Carteret County, N.C. Sandahl will be speaking first at the event. She has written a book about the topic of disability and performance called “Bodies in Commotion”; she is also the writer and producer of the film “Code of the Freaks,” which deals with critiques of Hollywood’s representation of people with disabilities. She travels as a public speaker and presents her research at universities in the U.S. As the most ambitious event that DDA has ever put on, the planning for this event began over the summer. Reserving the speakers and orchestrating the entire event was a collaboration between the Nasher and DDA. While the students of the DDA chose the artists they wanted there, Marion Quirici, the DDA’s faculty advisor, helped to connect the students with Weise. After meetings and discussions of what was actually possible at the Nasher’s space, the event solidified. According to Quirici, the purpose of the upcoming event is to “celebrate the generative capacities of people with disabilities.” Often people with disabilities are only seen as consumers of art but it is important to recognize that they are also capable to creating art. “If you think of art as creative expression or expression of oneself, anyone can do it. Anyone should be able to experience it,” Weise said. Exploring the intersection between art and disability provides a different perspective on both topics. For example, by redesigning dance so that people with disabilities are involved, “We’re expanding our notions of what constitutes the aesthetic, the beautiful by imagining different bodies participating in that,” Quirici said.

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For Weise, this event is “providing another angle of what’s possible.” “My hope, personally, for both the students and public that experience this event is that it’s still possible to experience art no matter what or where you come from or what you were born with or what you’ve developed,” she said. Visual art is one thing that people with visual impairments are not able to access. At this event, visitors will be able to go on a sensory tour of the galleries where audio will be used so that the art can be accessible to everyone. In line with part of Nasher’s mission of expanding accessibility, it has a task force that meets monthly to discuss how the museum can better accommodate all visitors.

While the Nasher is equipped with physical accessibility features such as accessible parking, seating and elevators, the museum staff and DDA worked hard to ensure that everyone is able to attend. In line with raising awareness about accessibility, one of events during Disability Pride Week is Accessibility Matters Day, where DDA is encouraging students to walk only accessible routes. When students encounter barriers, they are encouraged to take photos and share on DDA’s Facebook page. Note: If you want to attend this event and have a specific accommodation requests, you can contact dukedisabilityalliance@duke. edu so DDA can coordinate with you about specific accommodations.

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Promising season comes to abrupt end as No. 2 seed in NCAA tournament for second straight year OMAHA, Neb.—As I walked into the Duke locker room Sunday night, Trevon Duval was taking a lap around, dapping each of his teammates up as he made his way to his chair with a towel over his head. I’d seen these emotions before. I was in Greenville, S.C. last March when the Blue Devils were rocked by South Carolina on their way to a secondround exit. So sure, this time around was a completely different scenario—one with new faces more than a thousand miles from where I stood just more than a year ago. Yet the sadness and shock, the disappointment and frustration, they were the same. “I gave it all I got and that’s what we’re supposed to do every game,” Duval said. “When you give it all you got, it just hurts a lot more knowing that you put it all on the line for your team, even for the University. For us to go out like that, it just sucks.” In those final three poignant, albeit not necessarily eloquent, words, the freshman summed up all the emotions in that small locker room underneath the CenturyLink Center. For a

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Gary Trent Jr. and the Blue Devils were one play from advancing to the Final Four before falling in overtime to Kansas. point guard who had about as up-and-down of a season as any Duke player to play arguably his best game of the year and still come up short of a Final Four, that certainly stings.

But it sucks for Grayson Allen, too. The lone senior had a chance to put one in at the buzzer and make at least one more signature moment before his Blue Devil career would

come to a close. And it sucks for Wendell Carter Jr. To play for as long as the freshman did in that second half with four fouls and still make an impact was huge for Duke, and yet, Carter still fouled out with the game in the balance, relegating him to the bench at the game’s most crucial juncture. There is something about finality, especially when it comes so abruptly, that no one can prepare for, even if some form of that feeling will be the way most seasons end. In three years, my class at Duke has experienced about as little in terms of basketball accomplishments as any group in recent memory. Sure, we may not have the pair of ugly first-round stunners that the Class of 2014 lived through, but like that grade, the Class of 2019 has not witnessed a Final Four and can only celebrate one ACC title and one Elite Eight appearance. The Class of 2015 would have been similarly disappointing if not for the efforts of senior captain Quinn Cook along with three superstar freshmen, and maybe next season will provide the highest peak of this four-year cycle as well, with the top three recruits in the nation coming to Durham. But there will be no Cook to lead the team with the urgency of one last chance after years of coming up short—reserve See DISAPPOINTMENT on Page 12

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Odom’s emergence signals bright future for Duke By Spencer Levy Staff Reporter

ALBANY, N.Y.—The Blue Devils closed the books on their 2017-18 season in a 13-point loss to top-seeded Connecticut Saturday afternoon. Although the Huskies fairly successfully limited the production from the “Splash Sisters,” they could not limit Duke sophomore Leaonna Odom. In the Sweet 16, the 6-foot-2 forward led all scorers with 22 points to continue her NCAA tournament emergence. She notched a careerhigh 25 points in Duke’s first-round victory against Belmont before registering 16 points to lead the team again in Duke’s win against fourthseeded Georgia on the road. Graduate students Lexie Brown and Rebecca Greenwell registered 10 points and six points, respectively, in their final game donning the blue and white. But with all of the attention on one of the best backcourts in the nation, Odom was able to use her aggressive offensive play to drive into the paint for numerous midrange jumpers. “You’re not going to beat a really good team like Duke and think that you’re going to take everything away from them. You’re going to have to give up something,” Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma said. “You’ve just got to choose,

okay, this is what we’re willing to live with, and [Odom] took advantage of it.” Odom finished her sophomore season in a fashion that many inside the Blue Devil program knew was possible. Despite immense potential and unparalleled athleticism, Odom stayed out of the limelight for much of the season. There were times when the forward would not shoot the ball often. On eight occasions, Odom attempted four or fewer shots from the field. Four more times, she only took five shots. In those games, she was not assertive enough to display her full potential, something that her teammates have witnessed in practice all season. “She doesn’t like the spotlight. She’s not interested in the individual stuff, but I think she’s beginning to understand more so that it’s not about that, it’s about how it affects everybody,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said after Duke’s first-round victory. “We did not feel that anybody could guard [Odom].” In the NCAA tournament, that sentiment proved to be accurate. When Odom saw any opportunity to drive to the basket, she was difficult to stop regardless of who the opponent sent her way. “My teammates gave me the ball in perfect position, and luckily I was able to score, so it could be a beginning,” Odom said. “I’m looking

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Leaonna Odom led Duke in scoring in all three of its NCAA tournament games after averaging fewer than 10 points in the regular season. forward to next year.” In her second season under the tutelage of McCallie, the Lompoc, Calif., native scored 9.6 points per game, the fourth-most on the team. The sophomore led the team in field-goal

percentage at 52.9 percent. Using her immense athleticism, Odom grabbed 6.3 rebounds per game and had the most total rebounds on the See ODOM on Page 12

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Blue Devils hold Presbyterian to 1 hit in shutout By Daniel Landa Staff Reporter

With the season more than a month old, it’s time to start taking head coach Chris Pollard’s Duke squad seriously. The 13th-ranked Blue Devils remained on cruise control Wednesday night at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, slashing 15 hits in an 8-0 beatdown against Presbyterian. The win was Duke’s 21st of the season and 20th in its last 23 contests. Sophomore southpaw Graeme Stinson took the mound for the Blue Devils in the midweek affair, retiring nine of the first 11 Presbyterian batters without allowing a hit in three innings before handing the 0 ball to freshman Bryce PRES 8 Jarvis in the fourth. DUKE Duke took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, and Stinson, Jarvis, Matt Mervis and Bill Chillari combined for a one-hit gem with 15 strikeouts, marking the Blue Devils’ third shutout of the season. “All of our guys were executing their entire repertoire,” Pollard said. “Graeme executed his fastball, cut-fastball and his slider. I was really excited about Bryce Jarvis’s outing because he established his changeup. That’s his best pitch, and we saw it all fall. It was the top swing-andmiss pitch on our team.” On the offensive end, the Blue Devils (21-5) wasted no time jumping out in front, scoring one run in the first inning after three consecutive twoout singles, including an RBI shot up the middle from freshman Joey Loperfido. This was the first of four hits of the night for the freshman, who is batting a team-best .373 this season. “He’s a tremendous athlete, and even more so,

DISAPPOINTMENT FROM PAGE 11 big man Antonio Vrankovic will be the Blue Devils’ only senior. For a lot of this team’s starters, the highs and lows of a typical four-year career were condensed into one. From Chicago to Clemson to Brooklyn and lastly, Omaha, I’ve been lucky to get a frontrow seat and a ticket to the locker room to witness a wide range of emotions. The most memorable part of this season, however, was watching a group of freshmen struggle and still find a way to come together at just the right time. “It was obviously rough at first. There’s so many

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Freshman Joey Loperfido was a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate Tuesday, singling in all four of his at-bats and driving in a run. he’s a really good competitor,” Pollard said. “We talk about the importance in our program of being the same guy every day, which is consistency with approach, and he’s very consistent with that. If you watch him in his day-to-day approach around our program, he’s much more like a senior than he is a freshman.” The veteran Duke lineup added two more runs in both the third and fourth innings, highlighted by a two-run double from senior Jack

strong personalities in this locker room and guys that have good egos about their game, and I’m saying that in a positive way,” Allen said. “It takes time to get that to blend and mesh. All these guys wanted to do that. All these guys were open to becoming a team, but it takes a while. It’s not something that happens right away. But we did that and I’m very happy to say that we did.” After six long months covering Duke, it’s nice to know there is an end. At times, my life would become absorbed by basketball, but that was okay. Now, my classmates and I will anxiously wait for October, ready to walk back into Cameron for one last go-around. Until then, though, it’s hard not to think about what could have been.

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Wendell Carter Jr. was effective down the stretch in regulation Sunday for Duke, but his college career likely ended when he was whistled for a blocking foul in overtime.

Labosky past the outstretched arms of a diving Guy Casaceli in left field. The Blue Hose (7-19) finally found their only hit in the seventh inning, putting runners on first and second with a walk and a single before a sensational diving catch by center fielder Kennie Taylor preserved the shutout. Duke’s eight-run performance marks the sixth consecutive game that the Blue Devils scored four or more runs. Pollard credited the

ODOM FROM PAGE 11 team. The forward’s 71 offensive rebounds finished nine behind senior Erin Mathias for second place. Oftentimes, by aggressively driving through the paint, Odom got a quality shot off over the top of smaller defenders. Other times, the sophomore took an open midrange jump shot that opponents conceded due to her potential off the dribble. That additional dimension will prove to be invaluable moving into next season, with the Blue Devils losing three graduate students and one senior. “She’s really good around the basket. She’s really athletic. I’m sure, she starts making jump shots, she’ll be really, really a handful for everybody,” Auriemma said. “She’s only a sophomore, right? Yeah, she’s got a great future.” When next season begins in November, Odom will be front and center of the Duke team. Once again, she will likely take the opening tipoff. But besides that, McCallie will hope to see the Odom that was on display to fuel the Blue Devils’ run in the Sweet 16. Odom can play practically every position on the floor as a result of her versatility and her ability to play inside and out. With three players returning from injuries and four more set to join the team in the fall, the dynamic of the Blue Devils will be far different. After the regional semifinal loss, McCallie said that her team was “playing [its] best basketball in a lot of ways at this time of year.” That could not have been accomplished without Odom’s emergence as a star.

team’s recent success to its balance in the lineup and disciplined approach at the plate. “We’re getting production up and down the lineup,” Pollard said. “I thought our twostrike approach was good. We only had two strikeouts all night and we did a good job of hitting with two outs.” The Blue Devils will look to continue their impressive season Friday, as they host ACC foe Notre Dame in a weekend series at the DBAP.

It is no secret that Duke faced adversity upon adversity this season. With a new injury seeming to come every month, the Blue Devils could have counted themselves out and settled for what they had. But Brown, Greenwell, Mathias and Bego Faz Davalos did not let that happen in the last year of their career. Now, it is time to turn the reins over to the next round of upperclassmen. “I think it’s about time. I’m excited. We’re all excited. I told her next season, I’d better not see a game where she’s under 20,” junior Faith Suggs said. “I want to see it every time. She gives people energy, she keeps going and no one can guard her, so it was exciting.”

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Marvin Bagley III named first-team AP All-American

CAPEL FROM PAGE 1

The Panthers are coming off one of the worst seasons in conference history, failing to gain a victory in ACC play and going 8-24 overall. Pittsburgh fired head coach Kevin Stallings soon after its season ended. Capel has been widely regarded as Krzyzewski’s top recruiter for the Blue Devils and the chief architect of three and the Wooden Award, with the winners for both national of the last four top recruiting classes, per ESPN. Staff Reports The Chronicle player of the year honors set to be announced in the first week of “Duke University and Coach K have had a profound April, and Bagley is expected to be a top-three pick in the NBA impact on my life,” Capel in Pittsburgh’s press release For the first time in history, there are three freshman AP first- Draft in June. With first-team All-American honors from the announcing the move. “I have learned so much about myself, team All-Americans, including one Blue Devil. Sporting News, NABC and USBWA as well, Bagley is the 22nd first as a player and then as a coach, but most importantly as Marvin Bagley III became the Blue Devils’ first All- consensus first-team All-American in Duke’s history and the a man during my time in Durham. The values I have learned American on the first team since Jahlil Okafor in 2015, fourth this decade. from Coach K, his family and his teams will continue to have joining Villanova’s Jalen Brunson, Arizona’s Deandre Ayton, Duke senior captain Grayson Allen wrapped up his career a significant impact on my career as I look to build on a great Oklahoma’s Trae Young and Kansas’ Devonte’ Graham. Bagley with an honorable mention All-American award, but no other tradition here at Pitt.” finished the year averaging 21.1 points per game and 11.5 Blue Devils received AP recognition. During his time at Oklahoma, Capel recruited rebounds per game, and he was named ACC Player and Rookie Rounding out the second team were Ohio State’s Keita BatesMcDonald’s All-American and eventual No. 1 NBA Draft of the Year after the regular season. Diop, Xavier’s Trevon Bluiett, Jock Landale of Saint Mary’s, Miles pick Blake Griffin, who carried the Sooners to an Elite Eight The freshman big man is also a finalist for the Naismith Award Bridges from Michigan State and West Virginia’s Jevon Carter. appearance under Capel in 2008-09. However, in his other eight seasons as a head coach, Capel never advanced past the first weekend of the NCAA tournament. In each of the last three seasons, Capel has stepped in for Krzyzewski for at least one game, including a seven-game stretch of conference play in 2016-17 when Krzyzewski had surgery on a herniated disk. When Capel was reportedly offered the head job at Arizona State three years ago, he turned it down to stay in Durham. With Capel leaving, Jon Scheyer and Nate James were both promoted from assistant coaches to associate head coaches, and Duke will still need to fill the opening left on its coaching staff. It could either elevate special assistant Nolan Smith to an assistant coach or make a hire from outside the program. “Nate and Jon are former captains who clearly understand Duke and our culture,” Krzyzewski said in a statement. “They’re both national champions who’ve played an integral role in our success over the past two decades. As good as they The New New York York Times Times Syndication Syndication Sales Corporation The Sales Sanjeev Dasgupta | Sports Photography Editor were as players, andCorporation they were both excellent, they have been 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 and instinctive coaches who have 620 Eighth New York, N.Y. 10018 Marvin Bagley III is the first Blue Devil to be named a first-team All-American since 2015, and senior Grayson Allen wasAvenue, remarkable, distinguished For Information Information Call: Call: 1-800-972-3550 1-800-972-3550 For an honorable mention AP All-American. earned this opportunity.” For Release Tuesday, March 27, For Release Wednesday, March 28,2018 2018

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ith the most recent exodus of remaining competent officials from the Trump administration, the President has signalled to any and all competent policymakers that serving in the administration is not worth their personal reputations. In firing H.R. McMaster, a man who has dedicated his life to public service, Trump has thoroughly nailed this coffin. More pressingly, Gen. McMaster’s replacement, John R. Bolton, has been described by some as a genuine national security threat. As stated by Duke Professor Peter Feaver in a recent article, “One can find more hawkish voices far from the corridors of power but probably not within them.” This grim reality of having appointed an ultra-hawk at a time of high global tension and responsivity to U.S policy is indeed frightening. Bolton has openly preached in favor of war against Iran and North Korea, two nascent nuclear states that could have unknown nuclear capabilities. Most urgently through the lens of current affairs, Bolton may present a genuine risk to U.S military installations in South Korea and Japan due to his stated belief in attacking North Korea first. If North

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Korea is to believe that war with the U.S is imminent or even inevitable, their calculus might tell their leadership to strike U.S bases within range of their nuclear arsenal in order to blunt the impact of a U.S strike, as opposed to being struck first, as advocated for by Bolton. In some bizarre act of diplomacy, during negotiations for the Iran deal, Bolton penned a New York Times op-ed claiming that the best option was to bomb Iran. Can one possibly find a better way to

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sully the credibility of delicate negotiations? Bolton and other opponents of the P5+1 nuclear deal may be correct in that the ‘snapback’ sanctions within the deal gives Iran the space to extend the United States’ patience with minor violations, but the idea of scrapping the Iran deal now yields no benefits. The unfrozen assets that Iran might use to bolster Hezbollah and other weapons programs that fit the terms of the deal? These assets have already returned to Iran’s hand, and scrapping the deal now would only

Lessons from 1918

acing a chilling wind and the sun’s harsh rays, I stared straight ahead. The grave markers were arranged in a sweeping curve on the manicured grass along the 40-acre Aisne-Marne cemetery in Northern France. The cemetery contains the remains of some 3,000 American soldiers who died in the nearby area during World War I. Walking among these soldiers’ graves, I thought about the names I saw on the stones and the stories of these men who had died fighting in one of the most brutal wars in history.

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clear the way for Iran to obtain the bomb sooner. Despite his tenure as U.S representative to the U.N, Bolton also does not believe an awful lot in the international norms that have created trust between nation-states; indeed his worldview openly privileges American hegemony over mutual international diplomacy. As a vehement opponent to the U.N and its system of norming in order to promote human rights often without the use of force (an area Bolton feels the U.N is inadequate in handling), it is difficult to understand how Bolton will make the U.S front and center on the world stage in order to address issues such as climate change that necessitate collective action. At a time when many of our international allies and partners have lost trust in America’s ability to champion international norms, the appointment of a man, who to this day defends Bush’s illegitimate incursion into Iraq, to the position of principal foreign policy advisor to the President is a grim prospect indeed. At a time of increasingly tense security competition, the aggression that John Bolton has embodied throughout his career only heightens the risk of a conflagration.

I visited this cemetery and others as part of the staff ride organized by Duke’s Program in American Grand Strategy. Staff rides enable undergraduates, graduate students, professors, and alumni to engage in interactive learning by retracing a famous battle in American military history. Previous Duke staff rides have included trips to Normandy, Grenada, and Vietnam. Participants are assigned to research military and political figures and present their findings during the trip, which helps provide a nuanced understanding of competing interests and strategies at play. This year’s staff ride over Spring Break was to Belgium and France to retrace the 1918 Spring Offensive and Hundred Days Offensive that marked the end of World War I. Hearing participants present as strategists and tacticians and question one another, as well as visiting the sites of important battles and seeing the conditions that combatants faced, provided the kind of up-close learning experience that cannot be gleaned from a textbook or lecture. There were more than 40 million casualties in World War I, making it among the bloodiest conflicts in history. I thought about the parade of calamitous mistakes made by civilian and military leaders a century ago that led down the path to destruction at places like the Somme and Passchendaele, and what their modern-day equivalents might resemble. The staff ride provided many lessons, but two in particular stand out. First is the value of empathy in analyzing decision-making. Deriving a single lesson from an historical event can be challenging because people internalize different lessons from different events based on their particular experiences. Learning accurate lessons from history is difficult if one is unwilling to put oneself in the shoes of historical actors—even and especially if one disagrees with those historical actors. Empathy is particularly important in foreign policy and international relations, where understanding the motives of an adversary can mean the difference between war and peace. Believing that an enemy is maniacal and illogical can encourage military action, even though more peaceful solutions through diplomacy could be achievable. Comprehending the historical factors that motivate an autocrat to believe that his survival depends on possessing

nuclear weapons can ensure the viability of a diplomatic agreement that can prevent war. A sense of empathy was important to understanding the interests and strategies of leading figures during World War I. Walking around Versailles and listening to the presentations of participants assigned to research Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, and Georges Clemenceau, I began to understand how history, geography, personal background, and domestic politics shaped disagreements over reparations and a post-war order. I was assigned to research the Commander in Chief of the British Forces and gained an appreciation for how relations between political leaders and military generals can be strained by the former’s need to consider domestic opinion and the latter’s compelling military imperatives, such as the desire for more troops. The second lesson reinforced by the trip deals with the contemporary lessons of a war that ended a century ago. In her seminal history, The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman identifies the strategic failures and political miscalculations that propelled Europe to war in the summer of 1914. Tuchman effectively shows how the failure of the Great Powers to reach a diplomatic settlement and prevent war after the June 1914 assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand ultimately resulted in the outbreak of a war that in her words, “grew and spread until it drew in the nations of both hemispheres and entangled them in a pattern of world conflict no peace treaty could dissolve.” Tuchman’s observations had particular salience as we visited the cemeteries, walked through muddy trenches, and explored the cramped tunnels where soldiers lived. Lessons from the outbreak of World War I are still relevant today. With the recent appointment of John Bolton as National Security Adviser, the prospect of war with North Korea and Iran has increased. Bolton has encouraged a preventative military strike against North Korea and recklessly wrote that “to stop Iran’s bomb, bomb Iran.” Bolton’s rhetoric and his career show a troubling trend of prioritizing the use of military force over diplomacy and twisting intelligence to fit his view. Policymakers face political, strategic, and military constraints, and operate in a whirlwind environment. They make mistakes. Appreciating these constraints is important to understanding why a decision went wrong. Yet, Bolton seems cavalier about learning from history. While many now refer to the Iraq war as perhaps the most disastrous foreign policy blunder in recent decades, Bolton has consistently and arrogantly continued to be proud of his mistaken endorsement of the war. This inability to critically analyze previous decisions— especially bad ones—is troubling and deeply at odds with what we experienced on the staff ride. Seeing the vast array of tombstones at Aisne-Marne, and visiting towns that were destroyed by the fighting, made me appreciate the terrible costs of war—on both combatants and civilians. I hope that those in power can recognize the dangerous consequences of their proposals and the devastating results if their rhetoric becomes reality. Max Labaton is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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Duke voices: The gun violence revolution The trauma of gun violence

hat were you doing the night of President Price’s inauguration? Were you marveling at the expensive delicacies and sleek ice sculptures on display in West Union? Were you enjoying the ferris wheel and other carnival activities that had been brought to East Campus? I know where I was. I was huddled under the desk in my

Elle Eshleman GUEST COLUMNIST room trying to remember how to breathe as panic ravaged me and vivid flashbacks flooded my mind. My hands were shaking, but I somehow got them to cover my mouth so that passersby in the hallway wouldn’t hear my sobs. Eventually, I started to muddle through the deluge of visceral fear to remind myself that I was safe, that what I was experiencing was actually in the past. When I finally calmed down, I couldn’t help but feel irrationally angry at whoever decided to add celebratory fireworks to the inaugural agenda even though they had no way of knowing that their choice would affect me this way. When I was 15, there was a shooting at my high school that resulted in the death of some of my classmates. I try my best not to remember what happened, but sometimes snapshots of it will filter through my defenses. I’ll remember the tremors in my classmate’s voice while he called his

mom to tell her he loved her because he wasn’t sure he’d be alive long enough to say it in person, the terror I felt as a SWAT team knocked down the door to the chemical closet where we were hiding, the smell of the disinfectant that was used to clean the up the blood that had been spilt in our hallways, the agony of finding out on the news that one of my friends was dead. The shooting irrevocably poisoned my relationships with my school, my friends, and my own consciousness. It turned what were supposed to be dependable, safe spaces into violent, untrustworthy ones. And every time I’m reminded of it, I’m also reminded that gun violence doesn’t just steal the lives of the murdered, but also the lives of the survivors. It’s been four years since the shooting at my school, but I still wake up in the middle of the night, familiar nightmares resurfacing in the dark. It’s been four years, but every December when the anniversary approaches, I live in an exhausting state of constant anxiety. It’s been four years, but my highschool friends still text me every few weeks because something triggered their PTSD, and they don’t know how to stop hurting. It’s been four years, but I still break out into a cold sweat when there’s news of another shooting on T.V.. It’s been four years, but any 18 year old can still walk into their local outdoor store and buy a semiautomatic assault rifle, with nothing between them and the deadly weapon but a feeble background check, if that. I’ll confess something horribly selfish: when the students from Parkland started organizing protests and events after the devastating shooting at their school, a part of me wished they’d just go away. Their constant presence in my world

threatened the peace I’d managed to broker between myself and my past. But in the weeks since, I’ve seen the ripplings of change that I’d once considered impossible. Walmart and Dick’s have raised the minimum age to buy a gun in their stores to 21. Florida has passed meaningful, if in some aspects controversial, gun reform legislation. Students across the country have shown a commitment to protesting until national reform is realized. When Congress failed to pass legislation mandating stronger background checks after the brutal slaughter of 20 six and seven year olds at Sandy Hook, it seemed that the fight for gun control was over. Their failure ensured that shootings like the one at my own school became routine. As I watched this failure play out time and time again, I could feel the NRA’s unwavering grip on our country as if it were a hand around my neck, always present and loath to let go. It is one of the greatest injustices of our time that we tolerate the deaths of children in order to placate the demands of a powerful interest group. The past few weeks have given me hope that this injustice will not endure. Since Parkland, I’ve seen a tremendous amount of engagement with gun control and the national political mood seems to be shifting favorably. But we’re up against a formidable adversary, and it’s going to take a sustained effort to generate change. I don’t have the luxury of forgetting the harm that gun violence causes. For the sake of the victims of the next mass shooting, I hope you won’t forget either. Elle Eshleman is a Trinity Sophomore.

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o matter how you look at it, it’s a race issue. In the wake of the horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, U.S. high-school students have mobilized in support of stronger guncontrol legislation. Despite protesting for an honorable cause, these students have been met with threats of suspension and other disciplinary actions that will show up on their high school records. So, Duke and other universities issued statements of support for these students claiming they would not penalize applicants involved in these peaceful protests. These #NeverAgain protests have also sparked positive political debates and nationwide media attention. Celebrities Oprah and George Clooney have donated a total of $1 million to the “March For Our Lives.” And on Saturday, over a million people poured into the streets of Washington and other U.S. cities to protest against gun violence. Yes, these recent responses are more than necessary as these students fight for a crucial cause. But this issue of gun violence in schools is not a new thing. Predominantly Black and Brown communities and schools have suffered from and protested against gun violence for years. Yet it is only now when gun violence targets a white and affluent area that people start to listen, states pass gun control bills, and Americans start saying, ‘Oh, this really is a problem.’ And that’s bullsh--. Don’t get me wrong. I fully stand with these Parkland protesters and all U.S. students involved in these peaceful protests. We need to support these students who are forcing acknowledgment of America’s gun problem. But we can’t ignore the deeply-ingrained power of race, class, and socioeconomic status in predicting the visibility of these movements. We can’t disregard the fact that people only begin to care when white bodies are targeted. When gun violence targets predominantly minority schools and communities, which happens daily, media attention is usually minimal or nonexistent. The shocking

disparity in media coverage of these shootings in communities of color is apparent. One study examined 42 school shootings from 1995-2014. Of these 42, 24 school shootings—a majority of which occured in urban areas—never received national news coverage. 22 of the 24 that did not receive national coverage were either known to involve African-American or Hispanic/ Latino youths, or occured in schools whose students were overwhelmingly members of those communities. I’m sure that the majority of people couldn’t name one school shooting that occured in a

Sandy Hook, and now, Stoneman Douglas. How is it that the only school shootings that we can easily call to mind are those that happened in predominantly white and wealthy neighborhoods? How is it that when the U.S. media actually does cover shootings in predominantly minority schools, it is said to be related to “gang-violence,” while white neighborhoods’ shootings are related to bullying and mental illness? As a country, we have shown through our media attention, actions, and prejudice exactly who we value. While communities and schools of color have been penetrated by

Why is it that no one listens to B.L.M.’s students of color who are yelling at the top of their lungs until their voices grow raw and hoarse, but when white kids do the same thing, people suddenly care? Maryam Asenuga guest columnist

predominantly minority community. If I were to mention the school shootings in Liberty Technology Magnet High School (2013) or Delaware Valley Charter High School (2014), would you know that these harrowing school shootings happened and that they affected predominantly black students? Probably not. Would you know how heavily policed predominantly minority schools that officers regularly arrest and transport students to juvenile detentions for minor classroom misbehaviors? Yeah, probably not. But this is not your fault; it’s all of ours. We live in a community that graciously gives national platforms to white voices impacted by parallel plights that often target minorities. We live in a country that egregiously values white bodies over all. If I were to ask you to list school shootings, you’d probably name Columbine,

gun violence for years and are still fighting for crumbs, white and “telegenic” Parkland students have been invited to a town hall with U.S. senators and an N.R.A. spokesperson, have raised more than $5 million in donations, and have been hailed as heroes on the cover of Time Magazine. I will reiterate, I support the Parkland student-leaders. But I want Americans to say the same for all youth activists, not just the ones that happen to be fair-skinned. We should not neglect, as many in this country have, the inescapably sharp contrast in reactions to black students who either were ignored or faced backlash as they protested against the gun violence that killed their classmates and friends. When students of Ferguson and Baltimore staged school walkouts to protest gun violence, universities never said to them that they would not be punished and that their admissions will not

be hurt. When the black youth of the Black Lives Matter movement fought against the police killings that disproportionately target black people, they were called terrorists and troublemakers. Again, that’s bullsh--. And if you think I’m that “angry minority” always mad about something, I’m not the only one sick of how this country hasn’t highlighted minority students’ voices. In fact, Parkland students themselves invoked their privilege over the weekend to publicly articulate the ubiquitous contrast in treatment for white and minority students. Jacklyn Corin, a survivor of the Parkland shooting, said, “We recognize that Parkland received more attention because of its affluence [and whiteness]. But we share this stage today and forever with those communities who have always stared down the barrel of a gun.” If these students can acknowledge the chains of injustice forced upon black, brown, and beige people, why can’t the rest of us? Why is it that no one listens to B.L.M.’s students of color who are yelling at the top of their lungs until their voices grow raw and hoarse, but when white kids do the same thing, people suddenly care? We as a nation should not act only upon issues that have received the white stamp of approval—issues that affect predominantly white people. The solution lies within refusing to stop the fight due to anguish and frustration. We, as minorities, must continue to crusade against these whips of indifference inflicted upon our black, brown, and beige bodies. And those who revel in white privilege must utilize it to speak for and protect those who have had their voices stolen. Your white privilege shouldn’t be seen as a curse word or a taboo subject. It’s a tool that can be and should be mobilized for good. Maybe then will the media, America, and the entire world listen and act upon problems that do not only affect white faces. Maybe then. Maryam Asenuga is a Trinity sophomore.

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