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Faculty question adding Asian American major Jaime Gordon The Chronicle Student activists continue to advocate for the creation of an Asian American studies major at Duke, although faculty are uncertain whether there is enough student interest to merit the addition. The Duke Asian American Alliance, Duke Asian Student Association and Diya, Duke’s South Asian Student Association, presented the administration with a list of demands at the second community forum Nov. 20. The demands included the creation of an Asian American Studies major, which was first requested after the controversial Asian-themed party hosted by the fraternity Kappa Sigma in 2013. Sophomore Christine Lee, vice president of political affairs for Duke’s Asian Students Association, noted that classes about Asian American culture already exist, but are difficult for students to take because they must fulfill requirements in the existing Trinity curriculum. “Students want to take these classes; we just don’t have the institutional framework and support,” Lee wrote in an email. Lee noted that students have been meeting with administrators about the feasibility of adding the major. Leo Ching, associate professor of Asian and African languages and literature, wrote in an

email that he does not believe there is enough student interest to merit the creation of a full Asian American studies major. However, he noted that he believes that a certificate or some viable alternative is needed. “Students have good intentions and are very adept at mobilizing,” Ching wrote. “We might want to begin with something more modest to ensure sustainability.” Ching also noted that this problem could be remedied by requesting that courses focused on the United States emphasize the importance of contributions made by Asians and Asian Americans. Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs for Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, said that the administration’s reticence to add the Asian American studies major is not out of disregard for student concerns, but rather a practical consideration based on their observation of student interest. Baker noted that neither the East Asian nor the South Asian Studies certificates have been particularly popular. He pointed out that there have not been many Asian American Studies proposals within Program II, which students can use to create a personalized area of study. He cited global health and neuroscience as examples of new majors that were created in response to the large volume of students pursuing related Program II pathways. “I think it’s vital to have a suite of courses that allow students to understand subject position,

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heritage, history and the racial politics of being Asian or articulating an Asian heritage,” Baker said. “We’re trying to work on courses students can take and faculty that can teach this within the other extant disciplines.” The Harvard Crimson reported Jan. 27 that students at Harvard University are similarly advocating for increased Asian American studies course offerings. A similar report was written in Dartmouth’s student newspaper in February 2015. Among Ivy League institutions, Asian American studies is available as an undergraduate major and concentration at Columbia University, a minor at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania and as a concentration within the ethnic studies or American studies majors at Brown University. Many other institutions across the country—including the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Berkeley, Northwestern University and Stanford University—offer Asian American studies majors. In an email to The Chronicle, Nitasha Sharma, associate professor of Asian American studies at Northwestern University, wrote about the student efforts that led to the creation of an Asian American studies program there. See ASIAN STUDIES on Page 8

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Stephen Glass, who was fired from The New Republic after fabricating several articles, told Duke students in a journalism ethics class Monday that he has repaid $200,000 to the media organizations he used to work for. Monday’s disclosure appears to be the first time Glass has publicly disclosed the specific total amount he repaid The New Republic, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone and the Heritage Foundation— which previously published the public policy journal Policy Review—for more than 40 stories he fabricated. The New York Times reported in October that Glass paid Harper’s $10,000 as repayment for a discredited article and noted that Glass’ total repayments could run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Glass said in his conversation with students in News as Moral Battleground, a class on journalism ethics taught by Bill Adair, Knight professor of the practice of journalism and public policy, that he made the payments based on what the organizations had paid him for the pieces and added interest. “I should have done it earlier,” Glass said of the repayments. “I took that money and wrote lies.” Glass wrote several stories for The New Republic in the late 1990s with fabricated See GLASS on Page 8

Special to The Chronicle Stephen Glass fabricated more than 40 stories as a journalist. At Duke Monday, he discussed repaying magazines for which he wrote.

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TC: Do you plan to make GPSC more active in dealing with issues on campus such as everyday discrimination? MB: There are some consistencies between the undergraduate and graduate school experiences where students may face microaggressions from peers and occasionally professors. We need to be proactive in addressing these issues. In the Law School, for example, we created an electronic comment box where if you experienced a negative interaction in the classroom with a professor or student, you could write that up without waiting until the end of the year to complete a course survey.

The Chronicle Marcus Benning, Trinity ‘14 and a second-year student at the School of Law, was elected president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council last week. Benning is the former president of the Black Student Alliance and member of the Duke Student Publishing Company board of directors. The Chronicle’s Rachel Chason spoke with Benning about issues on campus and his goals for his term, which officially begins at the end of this academic year. The Chronicle: As the recently-elected president of GPSC, what are your goals for your term? Marcus Benning: I campaigned on promoting transparency within the organization, which is going to include having internal improvements and doing internal restructuring to make sure we’re the most efficient we can be. I plan to make sure everyone is aware of my meetings and to encourage general assembly members to attend the meetings along with me, and even to encourage them to initiate meetings with administrators on their own. I also want to promote collaboration between the schools and between groups by incentivizing collaboration. The third issue I ran on was advocacy. There are a few really important issues that impact grad school students and professional students. Namely, there is a continuation fee that graduate students have to pay after their fifth year if they don’t finish within five years. This is, in my view, an education tax that is being levied upon students for not finishing quickly enough. None of our degree programs take less than six years to complete on average, yet our Graduate School promotes the programs as fully funded when in reality because of the continuation fee, they’re only partially funded. That’s an issue I’m going to work on—to try to hopefully find partners to help eliminate this fee.

Special to The Chronicle Second-year law student Marcus Benning aims to promote collaboration among graduate students and advocate on their behalf about issues such as continuation fees.

tempore for Duke Student Government when I was an undergraduate. This position exposed me to the broad institutional dealings of the University that I’m aware of now. It’s how I began to make a relationship with President [Richard] Brodhead and other senior-level administrators. It also gave me a deep understanding of how internal student government works, and how we can reform the internal body of a student government program to better serve students. BLSA and BSA both provided me with a cultural lens that I will use to examine what we do in GPSC. I will make sure our initiatives and programs are inclusive of people with a variety of perspectives and backgrounds.

school students. We need to be equipped with all the resources to be successful while we’re here. We also need to organize diverse social programming that captures a wide array of students and that helps them have fun and enjoy themselves while they’re at studying at Duke.

TC: What do you see as some of the largest issues on campus today? MB: I think one issue that we don’t know the full gravity of right now is uncertainty regarding health insurance. There are potential changes in the works, but because we’re not sure about the details, it’s difficult to anticipate what will happen. Another issue that is less concrete but very important is how to create an academic and social TC: What do you see as the role of GPSC on culture where everyone feels empowered TC: How do you think your past experiences— campus, and do you envision that changing at all to express themselves. A lot of minority as the former president of BSA, DSG senate during your tenure? students on the undergraduate and graduate president pro-tempore and current president MB: I do see the role of GPSC changing. level experience microaggressions in the of the Black Law Students Association—have I think currently people have a transactional classroom, and might not feel included in informed your perspective? relationship with GPSC. I want GPSC to partner the social culture of the school. They really MB: One experience that will be beneficial with University departments to drive home want their student government to create a is having been the senate president pro- the message of ‘Forever Duke’ within our grad social culture that makes them feel good

TC: Are there any changes you hope to make following the request from the Graduate and Professional Students for Truth and Transparency for the resignation of current president Abbe LaBella? MB: The most important message that I want to send to the graduate and professional students is that I hear them loud and clearly in terms of the criticisms they had of the former GPSC administration. I want to make a series of internal improvements and restructurings to ensure we are more efficient with their time and have a constant feedback loop between me and the council. I’ll also have an open-door meeting policy, which means that all of my meetings with administrators will be posted on a calendar, and any general assembly members will be able to view that calendar and attend. I want to create an environment where people can ask anything about what I’m doing and get a clear response. TC: Is there anything else you would like to add? MB: I really want to emphasize that this is a new year. The theme of ‘Forever Duke’ is very important to me as an alum, and we don’t always emphasize the importance of this theme as much for graduate and professional students. Graduate students are unique because we come to Duke with our own undergraduate experiences, but there are plenty of opportunities to create long-lasting, meaningful relationships with the University. I want to do everything I can as GPSC President to create a healthy, long-lasting relationship between students and the University.

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Professor creates database to share 3-D fossil files Adam Beyer The Chronicle Paleontology is stepping into the digital age with the help of 3-D printing. Morphosource—a free online database created and run by Doug Boyer, assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology— allows researchers from around the world to upload, store and share 3-D data files of fossils and bones. Scientists hope that the open-source library will improve access to information and increase the number of studies done in the field of paleontology. “It’s actually like a virtual museum where we have collections from museums all over the world,” Boyer said. “You can go in there and browse digital collections just like you would go through physical collections at a museum.” Boyer explained that paleontologists and evolutionary anthropologists often need to observe many different fossils to make comparisons between species and individuals in their research. These can be difficult to find if the fossils are located in museums around the world. In addition, the fact that digital-

image making requires special permission and equipment presents problems for researchers. To help alleviate these difficulties, Boyer created the online database in 2013 and asked researchers to upload their files to the site. He said this has allowed for easier access to resources and more powerful statistical determinations. The site currently has approximately 3,000 specimens and 10,000 total data sets, representing nearly 20,000 free downloads. “The idea of Morphosource was to take advantage of all that legwork that everyone had already done by putting the final digital versions of the specimens up online,” Boyer said. “We hope that [saves time] and therefore allows a lot more focus on the actual research design and analysis of data.” Boyer noted that he hopes the database will be useful for researchers who do not have a lot of funding, such as professors at community colleges or teachers who wish to use the site’s resources in their classrooms. See FOSSILS on Page 8

Adam Beyer | The Chronicle Doug Boyer, assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology, noted that his online database of bones and fossils is like a virtual museum.

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City plans for light rail progress after receiving federal approval Sarah Kerman The Chronicle Plans for a proposed Durham-Orange Light Rail Line are moving forward after receiving federal approval. The Federal Transit Administration and GoTriangle, the Research Triangle regional public transportation authority, issued a document in February stating that the environmental review of the project had been completed and issues about where to lay the tracks resolved. The planned 17-mile route includes stops near Duke University Medical Center, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Ninth Street and the University of North Carolina hospitals in Chapel Hill. The federal approval represents a big step forward in the planning process for the light rail, said Jeffrey Sullivan, public involvement associate for GoTriangle. “We believe we are the first project of this size to complete an environmental impact statement that results in a combined federal environmental

impact statement and record of decision,” Sullivan said. Sullivan noted that the Congressionallymandated process was challenging to complete during a two-year timeline. The final statement is a collection of responses to stakeholder input from the draft impact statement, which includes the required empirical studies. “It was a big commitment from the federal government to review our document and offer their suggestions and help to get it done,” Sullivan said. “It’s a lot to undergo in 24 months, so it’s something that we’re definitely proud of.” With federal agreement, GoTriangle expects to enter the project engineering phase later this spring, which will allow the organization to move forward with design choices for the stations, secure property rights and solidify funding commitments. The engineering phase is expected to last until 2019, when construction will begin. The light rail is expected to be operational by 2026, according to the Our Transit Future website. See LIGHT RAIL on Page 9

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In the last regular-season Duke-North Carolina matchup of her Blue Devil career, senior Beatrice Capra will battle the top-ranked tennis player in the country. Now fully adapted to the leadership position she stepped into at the beginning of the year as the only senior on a squad mostly consisting of underclassmen, Capra is up for the challenge. With all eyes on the Ellicot City, Md., native, No. 10 Duke will face Tobacco Road rival No. 4 North Carolina Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Amber Tennis Stadium. After beating then-No. 14 No. 4 Wake Forest on the road Saturday, UNC the Blue Devils will continue their vs. stiff 11-day stretch, with matches No. 10 still left to be played against the Tar Duke Heels, No. 12 Virginia and No. 9 TUESDAY, 3 p.m. Michigan. Ambler Tennis Stadium “[The Duke-UNC rivalry] is intense and it’s fun and it’s one of the reasons why these girls come here—to be able to play matches like that,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “Obviously, you have the added factor of playing UNC so we don’t have to do a lot of hyping up the match to our team. When UNC is at its best, it’s a very emotional team. We have to go out there and not let them knock us on our ‘heels,’ I would say, not let them knock us backwards emotionally.” In what promises to be a highly charged environment, the Blue Devils (13-2, 6-1 in the ACC) will need to set the tone by securing the all-important doubles point if they want to defeat a Tar Heel squad that is unbeaten in conference action. With a team-best 14 victories so far this season, the 14th-ranked tandem of Capra and freshman Ellyse

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Senior Beatrice Capra will take on North Carolina for the last time in the regular season Tuesday afternoon, and will likely have to face off against the No. 1 singles player in the nation in the Tar Heels’ Hayley Carter.

Hamlin will open doubles action against the top-ranked duo of Hayley Carter and Whitney Kay on court one. Sophomore Samantha Harris and freshman Kaitlyn McCarthy will look to capture their fourth consecutive victory when they hit court two against North Carolina’s Jessie Aney and Kate Vialle, with the Tar Heels (19-2, 7-0) trotting out Ashley Dai and Chloe Ouellet-Pizer to compete against Duke’s duo of juniors Chalena Scholl and Alyssa Smith—who have posted 11 wins this season– on the third doubles court. The Blue Devils claimed the doubles point on the road

Saturday against the Demon Deacons and used that early momentum to pick up a comfortable 6-1 win, despite falling behind quickly on most of the singles courts. “Getting a win [against Wake Forest] to start off this stretch was big and especially how we did it—losing four first sets down at the beginning of that match,” Ashworth said. “We have a resilient group and it was good for us to face a little adversity and know that we can overcome [it] in the middle of a match.” Following doubles play, No. 28 Capra—who owns See W. TENNIS on Page 7

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Duke tries to build momentum against Liberty Hank Tucker The Chronicle The Blue Devils started to climb out of a midseason slump with a strong performance to end the weekend, but a tough midweek test could cause any signs of momentum to flame out. Duke hosts Liberty Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park after snapping a six-game losing streak with Liberty a win in its series vs. finale against Wake Forest. The Flames Duke are coming off a weekend sweep of TUESDAY, 6 p.m. UNC-Asheville and Durham Bulls Athletic Park beat the Blue Devils 1-0 Feb. 27 to snap Duke’s longest win streak of the year at four games. “We knew when we ramped up the schedule the way we did that this was arguably going to be our toughest

stretch of the year,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said Monday on his weekly radio show. “What makes our league so difficult is you don’t have a chance to catch your breath, and then when you play regional-type opponents in the midweek, you really don’t have a chance to catch your breath. It makes you better.” Duke’s first matchup with Liberty (16-10) was on a Saturday in the Caravelle Resort’s Baseball at the Beach Tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C., but neither team will use its weekend rotation this time, putting more pressure on the Blue Devil bullpen. Since southpaw Trent Swart missed his regular Saturday start against the Demon Deacons with an unspecified injury, usual midweek starter Kellen Urbon started in his place and may start again this weekend against Georgia See BASEBALL on Page 7

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Powered by two underclassmen and a veteran making her final appearance in a Duke uniform, the Blue Devils turned in another top-10 performance at the NCAA championships. Duke scored 58 points to finish ninth at the four-day event in Waltham, Mass., buoyed by three top15 finishes and a pair of All-America performances. Senior epee Isabella Barna took sixth place to end her Blue Devil career as an All-American, sophomore Pascual Di Tella claimed 13th in the men’s saber—one place shy of All-America honors—and freshman Bryn Hammarberg concluded his firstever natioanl championships with a 14th-place finish in men’s epee. The ninth-place team finish was the second straight for Duke, which has finished in the top 10 in six of the past seven seasons. Barna won 10 of her 15 bouts on the opening day of competition, heading into the second day in third place. The Bend, Ore., native went 3-5 Friday and tumbled three spots down the leaderboard, but finished well ahead of her 19th-place finish from the 2015 NCAA championships. Sophomore saber Haley Fisher and freshman foil Kristen Coury each finished in 18th place in their respective weapon categories after combining for 16 victories during the two days of competition. On the men’s side, Di Tella headed into Sunday’s final day of competition in 17th place after seven victories during the first day. But the Buenos Aires native—who finished second at the NCAA regional

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Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Three Blue Devils finished in the top 15 last weekend at the NCAA championships, helping Duke finish in the top 10 for the sixth time in the last seven seasons.

competition—stormed back on the final day, winning five of his eight bouts to move up five spots on the leaderboard. Di Tella’s overall ledger left him short of replicating his fifth-place finish from his first season in Durham. Hammarberg was in contention for All-America honors after posting an 8-7 ledger in his first action on the biggest of stages. But the Maplewood, N.J., native added just two more wins Sunday, dropping to 14th place. Senior Charles Copti rounded out his Duke career with a 20th-place finish in the men’s saber, notching

seven victories, three of which came on the final day of competition. Duke finished second out of the four ACC schools competing in Waltham, trailing only Notre Dame, which finished fifth with 160 points. The ninth-place showing brings the Blue Devils’ season to a close, one that saw sophomore saber Jennifer Ling become the first Duke ACC champion since 1973 and first-ever female ACC Blue Devil champion. Columbia-Barnard won the national title with 174 points, seven points clear of runner-up Ohio State.

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Stevens earns honorable mention from AP Staff Reports The Chronicle The Blue Devils are not a part of the postseason this year, but that did not preclude them from picking up postseason honors. Sophomore Azurá Stevens earned honorable mention AP All-American recognition Tuesday when the outlet released its annual postseason awards. The Raleigh native posted a team-leading 18.9 points and 9.6 rebounds per game and likely would have earned a spot on one of the AP’s three AllAmerica teams if not for a tear of the plantar fascia in her left foot that sidelined the Blue Devils’ most potent paint presence for the last seven games of the regular season. The 6-foot-6 forward’s importance was underscored during her absence, as Duke went just 3-4 without Stevens in the lineup. The sophomore did damage from all over the floor—hitting 35.8 percent of her 3-pointers in addition to swatting 2.1 shots per game—but the Blue Devils struggled to score without their key cog down low, even though junior Oderah

“It’s all over but the crying.” The above line is taken from a song by the Ink Spots, and like a vast portion of their catalogue, the song is sad and mopey and starts with the same four signature notes. When heard on its own, it can be incredibly sad in a way that only ‘40s music can be—with the distant voices, the occasional scratch on the recording and harmonic despair that remind you how much you love the words “digital CD quality.” That line came to my head when I was thinking back on Thursday’s game between Duke and Oregon, one that ultimately ended with the Blue Devils printing their tickets home after Grayson Allen’s attempt at a second straight heroic tournament came up short. By virtue of their victory, the Ducks, unfortunately, were granted the honor of running into the buzzsaw that is Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield Saturday, a game that would have been an uphill climb for Duke as well. And with the 82-68 loss, my time watching the Blue Devils as a Duke student came to an end. But as the final buzzer faded and the sadness maintained, the tears never came. At first, the loss was expected, in a way. “If it wasn’t Oregon, it was going to be Oklahoma,” I told myself. But then Sunday evening rolled around, and as the all-ACC portion of the Elite Eight duked it out, the Blue Devils did not appear on the board. Their name was left behind on the bracket like the many before them, and I was left without a team. The sting of the loss set in then—it wasn’t nearly as painful as February’s Super Bowl, but still. A lot of my fellow seniors were positive, referencing moments of victory from throughout our four years, like last year’s national championship or favorite games in Cameron (for me, it’s Ohio State in 2012. I still have never been in a louder arena than when Mason Plumlee slammed down that one-handed alley oop.) What it made me do was think back to when my time as a Blue Devil began—when the school let me in. I was never all that hesitant with my newfound Duke fandom in 2012 once I made the decision to attend school in Durham. I was all too ready for the chance to root for a winning program. Both embarrassing Facebook posts and memories of a frozen night spent in K-Ville can prove those points quickly. It was expressing that fandom in the time I spent at games as a student, and not a journalist, that forced me to extend beyond my usual boundaries. Some may point out that prior coming to Duke, I was a fan of N.C. State, which is true—I remain a casual fan of Wolfpack men’s basketball and football and still have the newspaper clippings I’d cut out and hang on my walls every time they beat North Carolina (there aren’t a lot of newspaper clippings). But in the games between the Blue Devils and Wolfpack that have occurred since my enrollment, my allegiance has always belonged to Duke.

Chidom stepped up in the post with multiple 20-point games. Stevens returned to the floor for Duke’s ACC tournament and notched doubledoubles in both contests, but her 19 points and 10 rebounds were not enough to help the Blue Devils knock off top-seeded Notre Dame in the quarterfinals. Stevens’ two doubledoubles in Greensboro brought her total for the year to 14, which led the ACC. Despite playing in just nine of the 16 league games, Stevens was named a first-team All-ACC choice and also landed on the conference’s AllDefensive team. The ACC had just one representative on the first, second or third AP All-American teams, as Fighting Irish sophomore Brianna Turner was tabbed to the second team. Teammate Madison Cable and Louisville’s Myisha Hines-Allen—the ACC Player of the Year—joined Stevens in receiving honorable mention accolades. Duke opted not to participate in the WNIT after missing out on the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1994. The extra rest should give Stevens and several other injured Blue Devils a chance to heal fully before preparations for next year’s season get underway.

Kristen Shortley | The Chronicle Sophomore Azurá Stevens earned honorable mention All-America honors from the AP.

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Henry Yu | The Chronicle Sophomore Jack Labosky and the Blue Devils have been held to three or fewer runs in their last seven games, a streak they will try to break Tuesday night against Liberty at the DBAP.

BASEBALL from page 5 Tech, so he will not be available for much of Tuesday’s contest. Duke (11-13) is likely to split the game up among several relievers for the second straight week after the Blue Devils used seven pitchers last Tuesday against East Carolina. Sophomore Ryan Day allowed two runs in twothirds of an inning and senior Nick Hendrix surrendered three more as East Carolina rallied from a three-run deficit in the final three innings to win, but Duke’s bullpen received valuable

experience—both good and bad— against Wake Forest. With the Blue Devils clinging to a tworun lead in the eighth frame Sunday, Day struck out reigning ACC Player of the Year Will Craig with two runners on and nobody out before redshirt sophomore James Ziemba struck out Ben Breazeale on a payoff pitch to help Duke hang on to the lead. “You’ve got a team that’s unquestionably on its heels after a very difficult week—you’d seen a ballgame sort of slip through your fingers on Saturday, and you’re staring that in the face again in the bottom of the

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Cary, N.C., native Kaitlyn McCarthy will get her first taste of the Tobacco Road rivalry when the freshman squares off against the No. 4 Tar Heels Tuesday afternoon.

W. TENNIS from page 5 an 8-4 singles record—will take on the top-ranked Carter on court one in a match that could go down to the wire. No. 92 Scholl—who has spent time on courts one, two and three this season— will look to continue shining at home against No. 29 Kay and extend her seven-match winning streak. The Blue Devils will also have three players new to the in-state rivalry. No. 35 McCarthy is projected to match up with North Carolina’s No. 53 Aney, while freshman Christina Makarova will eye her fifth conference victory of the season on court six. “I’m from North Carolina so I grew up around the rivalry,” McCarthy said. “I’m so excited. It’s going to be crazy.

I’m expecting a lot of people. It’s going to be loud, hopefully super emotional and fun. Mainly, I just want to compete and play my best.” No. 78 Hamlin fell 5-7, 4-6 to Wake Forest’s Luisa Hernández 7-5, 6-4 Saturday but will likely make her Tobacco Road rivalry debut Tuesday. The young Blue Devils will look to send their senior leader out with a win against a Tar Heel team that has spent much of the season near the top of the ITA rankings. “[Capra] has done a great job leading this team as the only senior and she has set a great example on the team,” McCarthy said. “She’s been a strong player and she’s been there for everyone and she has also taken care of her business, which is great to see.”

eighth,” Pollard said. “Those were two of the bigger outs of the season to date, especially the out by Ryan Day there.” Sophomore southpaw Mitch Stallings recorded the final four outs of Sunday’s contest for his first save of the season and can be expected to take the mound again Tuesday if the game is close. The Atlanta native tossed two innings last week against the Pirates, who manufactured a run against him with a hit batter and a seeing-eye single. “We’re starting to establish that depth out of our pen and starting to be able to assign roles, so I think that’s going to help us as we look to the second half of the season,” Pollard said. “Mitch is one of those guys that’s very good about raising his level of play to the moment and certainly has an opportunity to grow into that role.” If Duke gets another strong performance from its bullpen, the Blue Devil bats will have to overcome recent struggles at the plate to give their staff some run support. Pollard’s squad has eclipsed three runs just once in its last seven games and went 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position in February’s pitchers’ duel against the Flames. Freshman Jack DeGroat started Liberty’s midweek game last Tuesday against Maryland and could take the hill again Tuesday night. The 6-foot3 right-hander sports a 5.27 ERA in five appearances and has struck out 14 batters in 13 2/3 innings pitched. Although the Flames scored just one run to squeak by Duke a month ago, their biggest strength is at the plate. D.J. Artis, Will Shepherd and Andrew Yacyk have all started every game and are all

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batting better than .300, and Artis has developed into a formidable leadoff threat with a .411 batting average and nine stolen bases. Liberty averages 6.3 runs per game and exploded for 22 runs March 15 at Virginia Tech. “You’ve got a Liberty team…that knows themselves a lot better than when we played them [five] weeks ago,” Pollard said. “They were mixing in some junior college transfers. Now they’ve really kind of found their team, and they’re really hanging their hat on their offense.”

Henry Yu | The Chronicle Southpaw Mitch Stallings has emerged as a bright spot in Duke’s bullpen so far this year.

Jack White | The Chronicle Center Marshall Plumlee’s Blue Devil career came to an end in the Sweet 16 last week, but he and his brothers provided several memorable moments in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

COLUMN from page 6 That is the result of the fact that I am an outwardly tepid fan, which led to a bit of teasing and a feeling at times that the Cameron Crazies were almost more fun to watch and experience than they were to join. I never felt out of place as a student, but I had to spend a good amount of time in K-Ville before I really went all-out for the cheers. Regardless, when I’m watching as a fan, I always have faith. I get relatively loud if Grayson drills his fourth straight 3-pointer or if Marshall Plumlee does any one of his cool Marshall things—including, but not limited to: roaring, shouting, rebounding, dunking or roaring and shouting and rebounding and dunking all at once. But, being a quiet person who is averse

to shouting and being shouted at, I have never been one to scream every chant in Cameron, or clap loudly during a big comeback while watching at home. Rather, I am the one who watches silently, occasionally pumping a fist or clapping, and constantly reaches for more nachos. But being on press row—with four bluepainted Crazies doing their best not to get paint on me while I analyze (live-tweet) the game—were when my most special memories in Cameron took place. After this honest reflection on the past, the Duke finale was not all sad. It would have been great to end my time here with backto-back titles, but the Blue Devils—in other sports besides just men’s basketball—gave me four years of great stories, fantastic games and unbelievable moments. But now, “It’s all over but the crying.”

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GLASS from page 1 sources, quotes and events until he was caught in 1998, when a digital writer for Forbes magazine investigated Glass’ story “Hack Heaven.” One of the reasons Glass did not repay the companies earlier was because of his fragile mental state, he explained, noting that he was suicidal after he was exposed and recovered with the help of therapy. “I was terrified I was going to get caught at every moment,” Glass said. “Therapy saved my life.” Glass was working in The New Republic as an associate editor and fact-checker when Forbes found he had fabricated several of his stories. He was also in law school at Georgetown University at the time. He made subsequent headlines after trying to become a licensed attorney in both New York and California. After passing the bar exam in New York, he withdrew his application in 2004 when he was told he did not have the appropriate moral character to be a lawyer in the state. After Glass fought an extensive battle to join the bar in California, the state Supreme Court eventually ruled in January 2014 that he was not fit to practice law in the state. Despite the lengthy battle, Glass, who works as a paralegal at a personal-injury law firm in Beverly Hills, Calif., said he understood why the decisions were made and why many people today still find him untrustworthy. “What I did was wrong on so many levels,” Glass said. Glass, who was in his 20s when he fabricated his stories, said that his immaturity impacted his actions. He added, however, that many of his peers

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in the industry were in the same age group. “I was the exception,” Glass said. “Using me to smear journalism is unfair.” A 2003 movie titled “Shattered Glass” was based on the controversy surrounding Glass, and he wrote a novel the same year titled “The Fabulist.” Glass said he regretted the impact the fallout from the scandal had on his family and co-workers. He reiterated that he did not blame people for being suspicious of all of his actions even now, almost 20 years after his journalism career ended. He said that he is trying to convince anyone he can of his current honesty. As an example of how he tries to make sure others know he is being as genuine as possible despite his past, Glass noted that he refused financial assistance from Duke for Monday’s visit. Adair confirmed that Glass paid for the visit himself and noted how useful it was for his students to meet him in person. “It’s remarkable that he’s paid that much money to reimburse those publications,” Adair said. “He expressed deep remorse about what he did.”

ASIAN STUDIES from page 1 “In 1995, students waged a hunger strike and that really brought the issue of not having curricular representation to the fore,” Sharma wrote. Following student-led efforts, an Asian American studies program was created at Northwestern in 1999. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the hunger strikes, a proposal to create a major in Asian American studies was passed this month.

The major, which will start in Fall 2016, will be comprised of core courses including Asian American Literature, Introduction to Asian American History and Introduction to Asian American Studies along with a number of electives such as Asian and Black Historical Relations in the U.S and courses on the mixed race experience. Sharma explained that Asian American studies majors are important not only for allowing Asian Americans to learn about their history, but also for educating other students about the experiences of the marginalized group. “On the one hand, just as people still think that Asian Americans are recent immigrants and not multi-generational Americans, people also don’t know the different between Asian studies and Asian American studies,” Sharma wrote. Ching echoed Sharma’s sentiment and expressed optimism about the movement on Duke’s campus, writing that the experience of Asian Americans differs from the experience of Asians in Asia as a result of American imperialism and implicit white supremacy. “This is a welcome trajectory, considering the brief history of Asian studies at Duke in comparison to our peer institutions,” Ching wrote. “The protests and requests are expressions of deep-seated frustration about Duke’s cultures of racism and inattentiveness to issues of diversity and inclusion, and this is not just an Asian or Asian American issue.”

FOSSILS from page 3 “Not only does it make it easier for the science to progress, but it actually empowers people that maybe have less infrastructural support at their universities or less money

The Chronicle for travel to museums,” he said. Boyer explained that he uses Duke’s industrial scale micro CT scanner, laser and white-light scanning to add data files to the site. The 3-D printing technology has become relatively inexpensive, but it can take more than a day to print one file. Steven Churchill, professor of evolutionary anthropology, noted that the project has received positive feedback so far. He was part of the team of researchers that found and described Homo naledi, a human ancestor whose discovery was announced in September. That specimen is one of the most popular downloads from the database. He explained that he hopes paleontology will change as a result of the project, which is funded by grants from Duke and the National Science Foundation. “We’re also trying to use the material to leverage some change in the way science is done in our field,” he said. “It’s historically been a lot of cronyism, with people sitting on fossils for years.” Churchill’s team has used the site to post their findings and engage less experienced scholars. He said that he believes the new information in the database has improved paleontology research. “There are more people, young up-andcoming people,” he said. “I just feel like the quality of the research is improving.” Boyer noted that the database is often used by classes in European countries and Iran to acquire teaching resources. “We get interest in this project all the time from people all around the world,” Boyer said.

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s the perennial flurry of press releases and news articles has trumpeted, Duke accepted a record-low 8.7 percent of Regular Decision applicants for the Class of 2020. Each of these applicants as well as the more than 26,000 less fortunate applicants used the Common Application to apply. Filled out by hundreds of thousands of students per year for applications to hundreds of universities and colleges, the Common App covers a vast swath of American college campuses, including ours. Despite its dominance, this fixture of admissions to institutions of higher education is in need of reform. The most common complaint is that socioeconomic status can affect how well a student can respond to measures on the Common App, or that socioeconomic status at least appears to be a limiting factor. One of the primary sections of the App allows respondents to list activities. For some applicants, this is no problem—they put down the clubs they participate in at school, their teams and so on. But for some applicants, those kinds of activities were never within the realm of possibility. Their main activity was taking care of younger siblings because both parents or a single parent were working late. For others, it was working a service job after school so that the family could bring in additional income. These applicants cannot produce long, impressive lists of involvements

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because their situation was simply different. While achievement in the classroom in spite of a dearth of advanced class offerings is often accounted for in admissions decisions, recognizing the same potential for extracurriculars is much harder to draw parallels to. A further difficulty is the Common App’s emphasis on written responses. While writing is indispensable in the long-run, the application wants for other ways to express identity, overcoming failure, problem-

Editorial solving and other characteristics sought by the essay prompts. Without asking for a substitution for the extended responses, submitting publications, videos or media projects alongside these adds windows into the experiences of those students who may express themselves in other ways. Engineers and quantitative students for instance often bemoan writing assignments, and having space for technical knowledge and inspiration can be important. This does not mean that the Common App is just a wall blocking out some students. In fact, there are some excellent features of the App that have led to its national adoption. Its step-by-step structure is

actually helpful for applicants whose parents did not go to college—though navigating the financial components is tricky for high schoolers. It also provides all students with access to a huge range of schools, adding convenience and accessibility for students with different amounts of time to devote to the application process. We hope most of all that the checklist mentality that manifests in the activities section is revisited. Without dedicated room for students to explain why they loved where they spent their time—or why they did not have time for these engagements—we miss out on an opportunity to separate the genuine and invested students from those who do for the sake of doing. This may in part explain the dearth of authentic volunteering on campus we recently commented on. The Common App serves college admissions offices as both an gatekeeper and as an essential set of windows into a student’s life and experiences. The stakes cannot get much higher as millions of applications are processed every year with many being largely comprised of the Common App. Adding windows through supplement questions and advocating for change through the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success are ways universities can continue to improve the filters that facilitate admissions every year.

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ast week, I turned 19, and now there’s nothing to do. (Well, in comparison to last year, there’s nothing to do. Last year, I turned 18 right around this time, and I was blown away by the various dramatic external changes that my new age brought into the year that followed. It was impossible to be unaware and unaffected by the social and societal access points and opportunities offered to the 18-year-old, as well as the losses and challenges that also come with such a formative milestone. I turned 18 and I became a legal adult. I moved away from my hometown for the first time and went to college. I lost the ability to be admitted for free to my favorite museum—although it seems that being 5-foot-4 has yet

un-declare as a pre-med. Desperate, I abandoned government websites and parenting blogs, trying a different channel. I went Old Testament and a little mathematical, all with the typical overextension and over-examination of the world that is characteristic of the English major. 19. Really, it’s just an unpleasant, awkward, “almost” number: it’s almost perfectly rounded—but not like the aesthetically pleasing 20; it’s almost even, and it’s almost the end of one’s childhood, but that happened 12 months ago at 18, and it feels miles away from being the satisfying “20” that marks the end of one’s teenage years. So rather than examine the world of 19 in isolation, I got to thinking about the meaning of 19 in the context of

Jackson Prince PARENTHETICALS to stop me from riding certain kiddie-coasters. I became eligible to be drafted into the military, I legally gambled at an Indian casino, I worried about my credit score after a fender-bender and, for the briefest of moments, I pictured my first tattoo. Two weeks ago, as an 18-year-old, I exercised my civic rights and voted for the first time in the presidential primary. Two weeks later, on March 20, 2016, I turned 19. And now, the most notable accompaniment to my age is a Steely Dan song about old men hitting on insignificant, uncultured 19-year-old sorority girls who hadn’t even heard of Aretha Franklin. Because I lost that ground-breaking status of being 18, I’ve struggled to give this 19th birthday the same kind of significance that the outside world placed upon March 20, 2015, and the 364 days that followed, which included an acceptance letter to Duke University, a goodbye to my parents and a room-service binge worthy of a Project X remake in my first legally-unsupervised hotel room. Because the age of 21 has lost its potency—mostly due to the undeniable fact that a large population of minors now carry two sets of identification—18 has been designated, for almost all of our generation, as the most important year of existence. Maybe that’ll change when I turn 30. The point is that the world that follows “life at 18”—the lesser sequel that is “life at 19”—feels quite uneventful, and pretty damn lackluster. I’ve even told myself that I would “live like I’m 20 as a 19-year-old,” hoping to skip over the feeling of 19 in order to live in the mindset of a more potent age. It’s only been a week, and I am scrambled to absorb anything from 19. I’m not transferring schools, I’m not becoming a “more-legal” adult and I’m not going to gamble away $200 playing Fortune Pai Gow poker at the Palm Springs Morongo Casino again. I quickly grew tired of looking up the phrase “what can 19-year-olds do” and reading stories about dull Vegas trips or the decision to

its consecutive positioning to the already-meaningful 18. In Hebrew, 18 translates to chai, which means “life.” Yet, when I turned 18, I wasn’t given life. I was given the key to accessing the full breadth of opportunities that might allow me to to reach my potential, to pinpoint my dreams and begin the hard work of turning them into a reality. I’d been living just fine for 17 years before I turned 18. And, if 18 is merely some vague sort of Hebraic gift of life, I don’t think that means that 19 is the afterlife. 19, in fact, is the first year living the “life” that 18 signified. It’s the age after the age when everything changed. As a 19-year-old, I’ve found myself to be settling in to the differences that were officially introduced to my 18-year-old self. And though the gravity and crucial benchmark of 18 can’t be downplayed, I’ve begun to see where 19 fits into my personal narrative as, in a way, it may turn out to be an even more vital age than 18. It’s my responsibility as a 19-year-old to build upon the dynamic and sudden developments that come with turning and being 18. If 18 designates the beginning of the rest of my life, in which I must actively evolve and consciously improve without age-marked milestones, then 19 marks the first chance at living it well. The first year of getting better at being the me that I turned when I was 18. Chai doesn’t mean “life” and 18 in a purely transitive sense; 18 is the merely the platform from which life might first begin to gain its greatest meaning. And that starts at 19. So I come back to Steely Dan and listen to “Hey Nineteen.” Rethinking it, I was harsh on those girls I called “insignificant.” They weren’t anything like that. They were just 19. And it seems that the 19-yearold Gamma Chi girl, even if she “don’t remember the Queen of Soul,” has a lot more life to build on than the geezer who can’t get laid.) Jackson Prince is a Trinity freshman. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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their bodies on the line—an act of incredible rhetorical violence which cannot, in this context, be termed a mere microaggression. There are moments when the executive vice president of your university runs over a Black female parking attendant whose job he himself has outsourced and then he drives away and there are no consequences. Moments when you think a lot about that word, consequences. About the consequences for Ms. Underwood and the (lack of) consequences for Tallman Trask. About the consequences of using the

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and struggle and fearlessness. Our deep, incredible, radiant beauty. Our rage, hope, suffering, joy and longings. There are moments when five decades of hard-fought victories are rolled back in a single day. When you realize just how incredibly fragile, how fleeting, how ephemeral those victories were and are. When you wake up in the morning discussing marriage with your boyfriend—your complicated feelings thereof, your attempt to define a space for yourself and him beyond the oppressive confines of church and state, beyond cisheteropatriarchy, beyond white supremacy and capitalism—only once more to realize, by the evening, that there is no such outside space. That wherever you go, these forces follow. That under the perverse and contradictory dictates of late capitalism you can be married tomorrow and then fired the next day, with no legal recourse and no consequences, for the sake of that equally perverse and contradictory feeling you no longer hesitate to call love. There are moments when you realize that the forces of counter-democracy have a better grasp on intersectionality than you do, that they have managed to pass an allinclusive “eff-you” bill further oppressing, exploiting and disenfranchising trans and queer folks, women, people of color, the working classes and those who occupy a position at the intersection of these categories. Moments when you want to emblazon the words of the fierce and fearless Marsha P. Johnson on your forehead, the words on the banner beneath which your beloved trans and queer companer@s have marched: “no pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” There are moments when you wonder why the “rights” of some dumb bigot trump those of you and your comrades. And then you remember that this is how rights have always been constituted, that the “freedom” of some has always been part and parcel of the enslavement, oppression, exploitation and extermination of others. There are moments when you host a guest speaker and the next evening see them arrested, on the steps of the governor’s mansion, fighting for a world we can all love and live in. Moments when the painfully ironic and utterly oblivious headline in the next day’s newspaper proclaims the arrest of “five women,” further effacing the very identities of the trans, queer and gendernonconforming people who have just put

bathroom that corresponds to your gender identity. About the consequences of an utterly mythic and transphobic “bathroom panic,” and the very real, material consequences of cisheteropatriarchy and white supremacy. There are moments when the vice president of student affairs at your university sends out an e-mail decrying the recent terror attacks in Brussels. There are other moments and other attacks which merit no such mention—Ankara and Shabdaqar and Istanbul and Peshawar and Maiduguri and Bamako and Grand-Bassam. There’s that moment when the vice president reassures Muslim students that they are not to blame, that “we know such incidents bring you as much grief and disgust as it does to all of us,” revealing that there is only room for two categories of Muslim in the American imaginary: terrorist and not-terrorist. That some deaths are not even counted. There are moments when you wonder about the rhetorical construction of that “you” versus that “us.” When you realize how much “all of us” has been constructed through the effacement and exploitation and othering of so many “yous.” When you wonder why the hell you are writing this damn column—so often met with the faux-indignation of the apathetic and the affluent—and remember it was never meant for that “us” but for a different one, a counter-us composed of all the yous. There is that moment, outside the governor’s mansion, in the wake of the arrest of those five freedom fighters, when a fierce trans woman stands up and starts voguing in front of a line of police officers. “I was tired,” she said. “The most I could do was dance away my anger, frustration, and sadness.” But also: “It’s important to see a Black trans woman be unafraid of police and policing.” And in that mix of sadness and anger, frustration and fearlessness, wild exuberance and willful defiance, you find whatever it is that you need when words fail and the spirit moves you. There are moments when we acknowledge, in the words of a wise freedom fighter, that it is our duty to struggle. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and protect each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

wages at a rate of 50 percent of the difference between pre and post-unemployment salary for two years (up to $10,000) so long as the post-unemployment salary is less than $50,000. The idea itself isn’t new. Robert LaLonde at The University of Chicago wrote The Case for Wage Insurancein 2007. A very similar program known as Reemployment Trade Adjustment Assistance provides benefits to workers of age 50 years or older who are forced to reenter the workforce at a lower paying job after having been laid-off due to shifts in production outside of the United States (essentially meaning lay-offs due to any negative domestic effects on the labor market from trade, including imports). Moreover, the wage insurance policy has explicitly been tested before by our neighbors to the north. In the mid-1990’s, Canada tested a form of wage insurance through the Earnings Supplement Project. The project concluded that there was no significant decrease in the length of unemployment for benefit recipients, but there was a 4.4 percent greater propensity for beneficiaries to move into full-time work. It is also worth noting that some companies and unions provide supplemental unemployment benefit plans as well. Many arguments have been made against wage insurance, including the empirical evidence from Canada which suggests that the wage supplements would have miniscule effects on ameliorating the labor market. The argument of incentive distortion seems to be the primary one worth acknowledging. Essentially, critics argue that if employers are aware of this quasi-subsidization of lowerpaying jobs, then they will have reason to believe that they can pay people less knowing that the government will provide additional income. This argument has been extended further to suggest that the policy will only further reinforce stagnant wages in the economy. In the Canadian study, it was found that the average income of beneficiaries decreased by 5 percent in their new jobs. This was likely because people were disincentivized from holding out for a higher-paying job if they could collect more on wage insurance. However, there is reason to believe that this is a positive phenomenon. Some economists suggest that even pay cuts associated with certain positions might provide on-the-job Bennett Carpenter is a graduate student in retraining that could position workers for the literature department. His column runs on better employment down the road. The models here, of course, suggest that with alternate Tuesdays. training and time increased productivity will eventually result in increased wages. Other arguments have cited the somewhat contradictory nature of the expansion of unemployment insurance that the President calls for in his proposed budget alongside wage insurance. The President’s proposal would call for all states to provide at least 26 weeks of UI coverage. Nine states currently provide less than 26 weeks of coverage, and our very own state www.dukechronicle.com/opinion of North Carolina covers a maximum of

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13 weeks. Some critics suggest that if wage insurance is being implemented, we should be cutting back on UI to further incentivize employment. Despite all of the controversy surrounding the wage insurance idea, it is certainly an interesting proposal that might actually resonate with both sides of the political spectrum even though Obama’s proposed budget will likely receive little real attention from the House and Senate committees. The right has often censured the current unemployment system for incentivizing

Americans not to take jobs, especially ones that pay less than unemployment benefits. Wage insurance, on the other hand, only pays out benefits once a new job has been obtained. The President believes that this plan will encourage laid-off workers to seek new employment quicker, reduce longterm joblessness, and prevent people from being so quick to leave the labor market. It does, however, seem that the de facto reason behind its implementation would be to provide a safety net for three particular demographics: (1) long-tenured workers who have been laid-off, (2) people with outdated skillsets whose roles now require the use of technology or whose roles have been replaced by technology, and (3) people who work in jobs in industries that are being sent overseas. Ideally, members of these groups would be incentivized to take lower-paying jobs that will retrain them and provide the skillset necessary to obtain a future job with higher earnings. The new benefits would be paid for through a slight change to the current unemployment insurance taxation system. The current Federal Unemployment Tax Act defines a 6.0 percent tax on the first $7,000 of an employee’s income and permits states to go anywhere above this $7,000 base. Employers receive a 5.4 percent credit against the tax, meaning that the effective FUTA rate is actually 0.6 percent. Trivial, really. The current FUTA is just so old that inflation has made it defunct; the $7,000 base was set in 1983. In 1939, when the system was established, the wage base was initially set at $3,000. In today’s dollars the wage base should be roughly $45,000. Obama’s budget plans to raise the wage base to $40,000 to capture more revenue and to provide the funding to move forward with the wage insurance plan. This is, at least, his intention. To conclude, most of the need for wage insurance can be attributed to the rise in technology and trade that have had somewhat negative consequences for domestic lower-wage workers, particularly in the manufacturing, construction, and transportation sectors. President Obama hopes that the wage insurance plan will allow Americans to continue to enjoy the immense benefits of trade and technology without sacrificing domestic labor. However, while the motion for reemployment in place of unemployment is an important one, it is unclear whether or not wage insurance will be an effective and costneutral response. Regardless, we probably won’t see it implemented anytime soon due to the current political situation. What is important, however, is that wage insurance has been put forth as an idea to discuss and critique. The problems with structural unemployment that it addresses are real, and a potential solution has been put on the table to rekindle an old conversation. Ajay Desai is a Trinity freshman. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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March 29-April 3 EXHIBITIONS

Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection, demonstrating the museum’s ongoing commitment to collecting contemporary work by global artists, with a focus on artists of African descent. Thru July 10, 2016. The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light. Thru September 18, 2016. Odili Donald Odita. Two large-scale murals by visiting artist and abstract painter Odili Donald Odita have been commissioned by the Nasher Museum; one is at Duke and one is in downtown Durham. Thru October 1, 2017. A Material Legacy. The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection of Contemporary, Nasher Museum of Art. Thru June 26, 2016. MFA|EDA 2016: Thesis Exhibition. Works from the MFA|EDA Class of 2016. At the Power Plant Gallery and other Duke and Durham venues, mfaeda2016.org. Thru April 24, 2016

EVENTS March 29

Voice Master Class with Mary Gayle Greene. 5pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

March 31

The Braveness of Jane. Duke Players steps into magical realism and puppetry with an original work by Duke student Faye Goodwin. 8pm, Brody Theater, Branson Building, East Campus. Free.

April 1

Lecture Series in Musicology. Margot Fassler (Univ. of Notre Dame). “Hildegard von Bingen’s Sounding Model of the Cosmos in the Digital Age.” Presented in assoc. with Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts and the Duke Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 4:30pm, Room 104, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

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The Braveness of Jane. (See March 31)

April 2

Chamber Music Master Class. Paul Watkins, Emerson String Quartet. Presented in assoc. with Duke Performances. 12pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Free. The Braveness of Jane. (See March 31)

April 3

The Braveness of Jane. (See March 31)

SCREEN/SOCIETY

All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Richard White Lecture Hall, East Campus. (G) = Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. All events subject to change – for details, updates, and additions, see: ami.duke.edu/screensociety

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March 29

(DIS)HONESTY—THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES (directed by Yael Melamede)

Deli Man (documentary) + Q&A w/ dir. Erik Anjou Special Event

FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 8:30PM, DURHAM CENTRAL PARK (music and food trucks at 5:30) FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING Presented by PNC

March 31

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 8:30PM, DURHAM CENTRAL PARK (food trucks at 5:30)

Frame by Frame (documentary) + Q&A w/ Julie Harbin (ISLAMiCommentary) Special Event

Mon Apr 4

IRIS (directed by Albert Maysles)

FREE CLOSING NIGHT FILM Presented by PNC

NORMAN LEAR: JUST ANOTHER VERSION OF YOU (directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady) SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 8PM, CAROLINA THEATRE (FREE but ticket is required)

Köksüz (Nobody’s Home) New Turkish Cinema The Rocking Sky (G) (animated documentary) + Q&A w/ Prof. Guo-Juin Hong (AMES) Cine-East: East Asian Cinema [Taiwan] ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

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