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Despite controversy, Charles Murray talk avoids conflict Frances Beroset The Chronicle Security was tight at a talk by Charles Murray, the libertarian social scientist who co-authored the 1994 book “The Bell Curve,” which some have criticized for having eugenic undertones. Early this month, protesters shouted down Murray at a similar talk at Middlebury College. But Duke took no chances. Student IDs and tickets were checked three times before the event. Private security guards lined the perimeter of the Doris Duke Center at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, in addition to the police stationed at the event. Approximately 50 people—mostly students— were in attendance. According to the event’s Facebook page, tickets were only available for the first 75 students or faculty. “I’m pleased to see you all sitting out there, facing me,” Murray began, alluding to the Middlebury incident in which students stood with their backs to Murray before eventually attacking his car as he left campus. Murray’s talk highlighted the increasing polarization of working class and upperclass white people, which he and professor of political science Michael Munger—who introduced Murray—suggested as a factor in Donald Trump’s presidential win last November. He argued that upper-class people live in “the bubble” and has developed a quiz that scores people on how disconnected they are with working-class America. For example, some questions ask respondents whether they have been to a factory or seen certain

Frances Beroset | The Chronicle Murray said that upper-class people in America live in a bubble and encouraged Duke students to live in smaller towns.

common movies. “You are living a life that is in a bubble,” Murray said. “And I go through all of this not to indict you—there’s nothing wrong with being around people who share your taste and preference. It’s important in many ways to want those common bonds, but the problem is it leads to condescension and disdain and sometimes it leads to contempt. That’s where a lot of anger comes from during the election. When they hear the term flyover country, they know exactly what is described.” Murray argued in favor of an “American

Creed,” which he described as freedom, individualism and egalitarianism. He added that this has been disappearing since the 1960s, partially as a result of class polarization. “The proportion of Americans who choose to embrace the American Creed in its original form is a very small minority. I don’t see us reversing that, absent of some events that I can’t even imagine,” Murray said. “I think we are in a situation now, which some of you will think is good and others of you will think less so, where the United States will be, in 15 or 20 years, essentially indistinguishable from the

advanced democracies of Western Europe. This is not the most horrible of all things... But something will have been lost.” One way to maintain America’s unique character, Murray said, was for highlyeducated people to avoid metropolitan areas. Instead, he said, they should consider living in smaller towns. “Don’t choose to live in the Research Triangle...or the Upper East Side,” Murray said, addressing the audience. “And if you love America, maybe this is a new way for you to prove it.” Murray took several friendly questions from the audience following the talk about his policy positions and advice for conservative students on campus. To the latter, Murray replied, “Don’t talk politics. I’m serious. I have great friends from the left…and we get along great, as long as we don’t talk politics, and as long as I explicitly say when politics come up, ‘There’s no point in talking about this. I’m never going to change your mind.’” Colin Duffy, president of the Duke College Republicans, which co-sponsored the talk, said he thought the lack of confrontation at the event was indicative of Duke’s culture. “I think we were all very happy with how this event went,” he said. “I’m very proud of Duke in the sense that it was a very civil, frank discussion.” Murray seemed pleased that the talk had not been interrupted, saying that he had a “much better time tonight” than at Middlebury. However, there were four protesters across the street from Duke Gardens with vuvuzelas and air horns, though they could not be heard inside the Doris Duke Center during the talk.

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“The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood” by Richard Blanco will be the Class of 2021 summer reading book, the University announced Tuesday. The memoir is about Blanco’s experiences growing up in a family of Cuban exiles in the United States. The book touches on topics including self-acceptance among life transitions and details how Blanco balanced his sexual identity and family influences. Blanco—a first-generation college graduate—became the nation’s youngest inaugural poet when he spoke at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration. He was also the first Latino and openly gay person to serve as the inaugural poet. “I am really excited about the choice of ‘The Prince of Los Cocuyos,’” said senior

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Andres Camino, a member of the selection committee who was also last year’s co-chair of the First-Year Advisory Council, in a Duke Today release. “I think the first-year students will be able to have a lot of great discussions about it. Blanco is able to write about identity, family, sexuality and a slew of other themes so well. I am sure the students will absolutely love it.” The selection committee narrowed down their selection from 85 book recommendations including “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates and “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead. “‘The Prince of Los Cocuyos’ is the beautiful and poignant story of a boy navigating multiple identities,” said Colleen Scott, director of the Baldwin Scholars Program and a committee member, in the release. “I chose it to bring visibility to the strength of the Latino and Latina community at Duke.”

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‘Jumping genes’ hypothesis Don’t forget about cyber attacks, sheds new light on Alzheimer’s warns Google exec Jared Cohen Nathan Luzum

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A team of Duke primate biologists and neurologists have uncovered “jumping genes” as potential strong contributors to the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. The investigators call their new model the “Alu neurodegeneration hypothesis”— named for Alu elements, a class of genes that can “jump” and insert themselves into new locations in the genome, acting as a common source of mutations in humans. The insertion of this element could disrupt normal cellular processes in the brain and may point to a biological basis behind the initial development of Alzheimer’s, explained Peter Larsen, coauthor of the study and senior research scientist in biology professor Anne Yoder’s lab. Knowledge of this mechanism may help future researchers develop therapies to more effectively stem the beginning stages of the disease, Larsen explained. “Our hypothesis is that this [Alu element] helps explain the very, very start of these diseases well before you could observe plaques and tangles forming,” Larsen said. “This is something that can happen for years before you start to see a disease.” The buildup of amyloid plaques and tangles in the brain has been the focus of the majority of past Alzheimer’s research, he noted. However, this line of research has largely proved to be ineffective, said Michael Lutz, co-author of the study and assistant professor of neurology. According to a 2014 analysis examining Alzheimer’s clinical trials, more than 99 percent of therapies tested between

Courtesy of Duke Photography Peter Larsen, a co-author of the study, noted that the research could help develop therapies to treat Alzheimer’s.

2002 and 2012 failed despite initial promise. “This class of drugs [to reduce plaque] just hasn’t seemed to work with respect to either improving the conditions of the patient or delaying the onset of the disease,” Lutz said. Larsen noted that the study of Alzheimer’s has begun to pivot in recent years to focus more on the molecular pathways leading to plaque development. One new target is the mitochondria—or the parts of the cell that produce energy. Larsen noted mitochondrial See ALZHEIMER’S on Page 4

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Cohen noted that the “social” type of hacking which influenced the U.S. elections includes “patriotic trolling”—when cyberbullying becomes better organized and state-sponsored. Certain governments, including that of Turkey, fund this kind of program to discourage journalists and dissidents who are critical of the current administration, Cohen said. This effectively removes online criticism of the government. He also discussed conversation hacking, often referred to as fake news. Although conversation hacking is arguably the hardest to solve, the use of fake news does not have as

Cybersecurity expert Jared Cohen outlined how online attacks can influence global politics during a talk Tuesday. Currently the president of Jigsaw—a Google spinoff dedicated to tackling global security challenges and cyber attacks— Cohen has served in the State Department for former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. At the center of his discussion, Cohen addressed the allegations of Russian hacking the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He mentioned that the type of “hacking” See CYBER ATTACKS on Page 4 connected to the election is different from the standard notion of breaking into a computer or a other electronic device. “I really don’t think that a country like Russia or any other country trying to hack an election would really double down on hacking the machines,” he said. “The type of hacking that we don’t understand as well is the hacking of the conversation and hacking of the discourse, and that’s what meddling in our election looked like.” Cohen cautioned against being too focused on Russia’s alleged hacking of the 2016 election, suggesting that other hacker groups may also be infiltrating the U.S. “I can name 12 countries that are using the same tactics [as Russia], some better than others,” he said. “I think there’s a risk of becoming so hyper-focused on U.S. and Russia that we miss how many countries Bre Bradham | The Chronicle around the world are engaging in these Jared Cohen is the president of Jigsaw, which digital insurgencies.” works to combat security challenges.

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Special to The Chronicle The website provides a space for people who were devastated by the 2016 election outcome, McCartney said.

Alena Sadiq The Chronicle With headlines such as “Trump renounces U.S. citizenship, moves to Russia,” the political satire website hillarybeattrump.org is making waves. The website imagines an alternate universe in which Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Its tagline—“news from the real America, where the majority rules”—refers to Clinton having won the popular vote, even though Trump won the electoral college. Brendan McCartney, Trinity ‘16 and a former columnist for The Chronicle, is a senior writer for the website. McCartney—who worked as a field organizer for the Clinton campaign in Palm Beach, Florida prior to the election—said he came across the website when his old manager sent him a link. When McCartney started reading the posts, he decided he wanted to contribute. He explained that he had written political

satire in the past, so he sent in a note and some of his old headlines through the website’s “contact” page. Until McCartney joined, he said the founder of the website worked on the website alone. But the team is now a group of freelancers and remote marketers who work on the website “as a side project.” The website’s founder and other members have opted to remain anonymous both for security reasons and to keep the audience’s focus on the content, McCartney noted. When the website went viral, they received hundreds of letters of hate mail each day. Although McCartney has not gone on the record about his contributions before, he has been actively sharing the website’s content via social media. “Honestly, it’s been an open secret on my Facebook profile,” he said. For McCartney, writing for the website is a way to question the legitimacy of the Trump presidency while also advocating for electoral reform. He said it is also a platform through which he can engage with other voters who, like him, were devastated by the election results. Conservative news outlets—such as Breitbart, Fox News and The Daily Caller— have criticized the website as being “fake news” and a liberal escape from reality. In a Washington Post article, the founder said it was meant to be a “joyful middle finger” to Republicans. Such reactions to the website, McCartney argued, highlight the hypocrisy of “people from political ideologies that call all their opponents snowflakes.” “They either have no idea that it is satire or they acknowledge it as satire but are just so offended by the idea of this alternate universe,” McCartney said. Despite some negative press, there has also been a steady rise in their fan base on Facebook and Twitter. The website has received more than one million hits since its inception, McCartney said. McCartney said he believes the project See WEBSITE on Page 4

Likhitha Butchireddygari The Chronicle Duke’s upcoming tuition increase will make the total cost of attendance more expensive than that of six Ivy League schools. Last month, the University’s Board of Trustees decided to increase the total yearly cost of attendance by 3.9 percent from the current price of $65,703, making next year’s term cost $68,298. The total cost includes housing and other fees in addition to tuition, which will go up by 4.3 percent. But Duke has not been the only school to increase its bill for the 2017-18 academic year. Peer institutions such as Yale University, Brown University, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth University have joined Duke in increasing their prices for next year. However, each of these schools has committed to an increase in their financial aid provisions alongside the increase to costs. For example, the Yale Daily News reported that along with upping its term bill, Yale will increase expenditures for financial aid by more than 12 percent. Duke has not yet released what its financial aid spending for the

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upcoming year will be. Alison Rabil, assistant vice provost and director of financial aid, wrote in an email last week that students receiving financial aid will not have to increase their contribution if their family’s financial situation “remains the same.” “There are usually fluctuations in family income and assets from year to year, so the family contribution number can vary slightly, but generally speaking if circumstances are the same, the contribution remains constant,” Rabil wrote. For most peer institutions, the increase in cost of attendance is around 3.5 percent—but not all of Duke’s peers have joined in this trend. Although Harvard University and Princeton University increased their term bills last year, they have not yet indicated whether they intend to do so this year. The University of North Carolina also faces a different situation. Duke’s Tobacco Road rival is limited by decisions in the state legislature, which recently allowed returning in-state students to pay the same tuition they had the year prior. Last year, The Chronicle spoke with Charles Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds professor of public policy studies, to discuss why universities continue to raise their tuition. He said that colleges suffered from “cost disease”—using “technology that doesn’t lend itself to technological progress or increases in productivity.” They also raise tuition “because they can, and they want to get better.” “[Colleges] are able to raise their prices relative to inflation, so why don’t they worry about poor people?” Clotfelter said. “They don’t have to as long as there is a robust financial aid system that can presumably make it feasible for people with less resources to attend college.” Recently, a New York Times article found that the median family income of a Duke student is $186,700—higher than that of students at Princeton, Harvard, Stanford and a number of other comparable universities. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag wrote in an email that although socioeconomic diversity is important to the admissions office, he can see how the cost See TUITION on Page 4

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of tuition could be a deterrent to low-income families. “I think encouraging families who couldn’t otherwise afford private universities like Duke to apply for admission and for financial aid has been an issue for decades,” he wrote. “I think it was exacerbated by the recession, but it’s been an issue since I started in admissions almost 35 years ago. Colleges, community-based organizations and organizations like the College Board continue to encourage families of all incomes to apply, but there’s always a lot to be done, and more to do, in this area.” Guttentag said the admissions office tries to attract low income students by discussing financial aid and scholarships in all of its programs and subsidizing travel costs to Blue Devil Days, the Black Student Alliance Invitational and the Latinx Student Recruitment Weekend. Clotfelter noted that the increase in tuition has had a mixed impact on socioeconomic diversity at Duke but has negatively impacted middle income families. “It turns out the percentage of students at selective colleges

from page 2 whose family income is $50,000 or less hasn’t gone down, but the percentage of students with family incomes above $250,000 has gone up,” he said. “So what you’re seeing is a squeezing of dysfunction can lead to neuron death and a variety of the middle.” neurodegenerative diseases. To further explore the mechanism of this dysfunction, from page 3 Larsen looked to the mouse lemur, characterizing its copy of the TOMM40 gene, which is thought to be involved in the is the first of its kind in creating an alternative timeline— onset of Alzheimer’s and is important in mitochondria. which he referred to as “universe-building.” And the website “Mouse lemurs, as they age, show signs similar to hopes to keep growing, for example by expanding to media Alzheimer’s disease, and that’s a clue,” Larsen said. “So we platforms such as YouTube. have mouse lemurs that are showing signs of Alzheimer’s Last week, they even sent a correspondent to Trump’s disease, but they’re separated [evolutionarily] from humans rally in Nashville to ask people in line what they thought of by 65 million years.” “President Clinton’s” health care plans. Larsen said he began a collaboration with the Duke The website also has a donation page, and contributions Neurology Department to explore how Alzheimer’s and cover the marketing and advertising costs of running the TOMM40 are related in lemurs and humans. They soon found website. But McCartney and his colleagues are not paid for that the link between the two species is an Alu element, which can duplicate and reinsert itself across the entire genome. their work, he said. “We’ve gotten donations but nothing in terms of something “Your genome wants to control these Alu elements,” Larsen that could even come close to paying us for the amount of said. “It wants to not only prevent them from jumping around hours we have been putting in,” McCartney said. but also prevent them from influencing genes.” Larsen noted, however, that as humans age, the genetic mechanisms keeping Alu elements in check begin to falter. This suggests that the Alu element in the TOMM40 gene could be interfering with the production of certain important proteins later in life, eventually resulting in mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death. “This particular type of variation in a gene could, in turn, over a long period of time set the stage for neurological dysfunction,” Lutz said. Larsen explained that another powerful aspect of the study was its use of a lemur model instead of a typical mouse model. Lemurs are more closely related to humans from an evolutionary standpoint, which makes their findings less difficult to apply to humans. Anne Yoder, professor of biology and director of the Duke Lemur Center, wrote in an email that their study revealed “an overdependence on the mouse as a model for studying the disease.” She added that rodents are too distantly related to humans to provide extensive insight into Alzheimer’s. Larsen noted that although the mechanisms he and his collaborators have proposed are still preliminary, the group is hopeful that their findings could eventually lead to a revolution in how Alzheimer’s is treated. “By looking at this different mechanism, you open up the possibility of using other classes of drugs, some of which might already might be out there for other applications,” Lutz said. Larsen explained that drugs are only one method of potentially keeping Alu elements in check. A healthy lifestyle and diet also improve the body’s ability to stabilize the Alu elements and prevent them from wreaking havoc on the genome. “[Those who live a healthy life] don’t show signs of cognitive impairment as early as people who are inactive and have an unhealthy lifestyle,” he said.

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While the Sports section may hate me for saying this, March Madness is one of the most artistic events of the year. Individuals across the nation spend hours, no, days, carefully selecting their players, laying out a plot and following their slam dunk finish. Each bracket is a plot line, a prediction, a dream and a hope. Without getting too “High School Musical,” it appears that during March Madness, the jock is indeed also the drama geek. Before the NCAA tournament challenge begins, anyone is encouraged to create their own unique picture of how the games will transpire. The emphasis on creation and individuality is unlike most other sports events. During the Super Bowl, everyone does the same thing -- drink beer and eat appetizers. During Wimbledon and the US Open, tennis fans just watch and wait to see who will emerge a winner. While during NCAA March madness, experts and die hard fans alike participate in the magic through creating a bracket. There is a low bar for entry – creating an account is free – and few people look at others individual selections. You can have a secret dream, a free dream. Everyone can practice, much like with art. For example, with singing and dancing, not everyone will be picked for the choir or the dance team, but everyone still can sing and dance. They may not be good at singing, and they may only sing in the private of their shower, but when they open their mouth and sing, it brings them joy, and no one can take that from them. In March Madness, you are never ridiculed for choosing an unlikely team. While between friends there is natural teasing and jesting, especially if money is involved. In the bracket

challenge, people respect bold and illogical choices based solely on gut instincts. This is how actors in a cast operate, when someone is trying on their character. Bracket creators widely accept that when crafting a bracket, you often choose based on heart rather than logic. Really, if you listen to the broadcasting of any of the March Madness games, you will hear them say “heart” and “mad at himself” and “hope” and other emotion descriptor words at least as much as descriptors of history and skill. What commentators care about, and notice, is the emotion of the players. And the emotion of the players is what enables them to perform exceptionally well and defy odds. Similarly, emotions

editor’s note are what makes art powerful and sincere. One popular and well-known acting technique is method acting, which focuses on getting the actor to imagine and possess the emotions and thoughts of their character. In rap, the best art comes from rappers who have experienced hardship, seen hardship or have felt things deeply, all of which create real emotions. Much of the best music is rooted in true, raw emotion. The performances of NCAA athletes in March Madness, superior to that of the team’s performance throughout the entire year, are empowered and strengthened by emotions and desires. In the same way, we are inspired by watching our team persevere. We

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Midway through “The Memo,” the first single released from Father John Misty’s new album “Pure Comedy,” a disembodied digital voice interrupts the singer, spouting the empty platitudes he is so fond of skewering: “This is totally my song of the summer. This guy just gets me. Music is my life.” The trick recalls Radiohead’s “Fitter Happier,” where a similarly demented robot voice walks with increasing intensity and desperation through a laundry list of neoliberal ideals. That song and the album from which it came, “OK Computer,” turn twenty years old this spring. Now, in 2017, the message has shifted its form, cloaked in the meme-worthy irony for which Father John Misty is so known. That moment in “The Memo” is only one in a grab bag of cultural critiques Josh Tillman puts forth on “Pure Comedy,” his third album as Father John Misty, which clocks in at nearly 75 minutes. After examining the ins and outs of millennial love through the lens of his own marriage on 2015’s “I Love You, Honeybear,” Tillman has turned his perspective outward on “Pure Comedy.” (Ahead of its official release April 7, Sub Pop is offering exclusive streaming access to preorders.) The result is a sprawling epic of an album that alternately mocks, curses and embraces the human condition.

Will Atkinson | The Chronicle Father John Misty releases his new album “Pure Comedy,” which mocks, curses and embraces the human condition, April 7.

With an opening line like “The comedy of man begins like this…”, he casts his net so wide that it’s hard to think of any element of modern life that doesn’t come under his ire over the next 75 minutes. As Father John Misty, Tillman has crafted one of the most divisive personas in rock music. His first album, 2012’s “Fear Fun,” painted a picture of an aimless drifter, all the nihilism and hedonism of Los Angeles personified. Three years later, “I Love You, Honeybear” found that drifter settling down, to some extent—

but not without belittling a shallow hookup, resenting people that he loves and wisecracking about craftsman homes and subprime loans. In the meantime, Tillman has constructed a characteristically absurd social media presence—at one point his Instagram was dedicated entirely to a Sims-like alternate reality. The rollout of “Pure Comedy” was typical of this persona. Announcing the album’s release in January, Tillman penned a 2,000-word essay that purported to explain the concept of the album, touching on everything

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‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ takes risks in new season Nina Wilder The Chronicle For a television show in its 12th season, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” has made a particularly concerted effort to walk the balancing beam between innovation and authenticity. Perhaps it’s due to a desire to fight the banality that plagues long-running TV shows or the understanding that reinvention is crucial to successful comedies. Regardless, there’s been a clear attempt at taking risks in the newest season of “It’s Always Sunny,” but there’s a semblance of restraint present, too–as if the show’s creators aren’t quite comfortable with breaking the confines of its established structure just yet. True, most sitcoms would’ve found their sweet spot by now, churning out more filler episodes than those that drive the plot forward and settling into a foreseeable array of episodic antics and gags. And, undeniably, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” fits the bill of a predictable situation comedy–each episode finds the Gang, a hedonistic group of sociopaths who run a seedy bar in south Philly, thrust into an outrageous scenario. (Cue episode titles such as “The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis” and “Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire.”) Whether the situation arises through external forces or by their own idiotic hands, the Gang responds accordingly and abrasively until the episode’s close. But “It’s Always Sunny,” which has garnered a devoted, cult-like following since its first season aired in 2005, is far from content with simply chugging along until its record-tying (and perhaps final) 14th season. By now, the main characters have been molded enough over the seasons to warrant a measure of creative liberty in progressing the series. And the show

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Season 12 of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” follows formulaic storylines with little deviation.

has already ventured into different episode structures in the past, such as with “Charlie Work” and “Being Frank,” which took artistic freedom with both direction and tone. Notably, those episodes are some of the most highly lauded in the series. When “It’s Always Sunny” commits fully to its riskier ideas, it pays off. It’s natural, then, that the show’s writers looked to similar modes of storytelling to enrich the latest season. The season’s first episode, “The Gang Turns Black,” was a musical. “Old Lady House: A Situation Comedy” was structured as a traditional cable network sitcom with an indulgent laugh track. “Making Dennis Reynolds a Murderer” was a spoof of true crime documentaries. They upended the show’s convention, structure and style, similar to how other episodes had. So why did every episode seem to just slightly miss the mark? It feels as though the show has become too self-aware for its own

good. “It’s Always Sunny” has never shied away from the more meta aspects of comedy–after all, social commentary filtered through the worldviews of horrifically narcissistic people is a guaranteed hit–but when the observations are borderline patronizing, the joke is somewhat devalued. When Charlie and Mac edit together a documentary that indicts Dennis for the murder of his ex-wife, Dennis indignantly points out that the police found verifiable evidence of his innocence–to which Mac responds, “People don’t want to see that, because it’s hard evidence. It’s better to actually sit on that evidence until, like, episode 10.” And while his comment isn’t untrue, it’s somehow too forthright for a pair as idiotic as Mac and Charlie. When “It’s Always Sunny” embeds its social satire (on abortion, gun control, blackface) into the twisted psyche and actions of its main characters, the jokes are both funnier and more authentic.

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Still, season 12 of “It’s Always Sunny” delivered excellently on many of its long-building plot points. The series has danced around certain aspects of the characters’ personal lives (such as Mac’s closeted homosexuality and Charlie’s unhealthy infatuation with the Waitress) for quite some time. Stalling on their development any longer would squander muchneeded opportunities for unexplored storylines late in the series. Thankfully, “It’s Always Sunny” realized this fact. In “Hero or Hate Crime?” Mac comes out as gay–for good. In “Dennis’ Double Life,” Charlie finally sleeps with the Waitress–and she might be carrying his child. Not only have viewers been waiting for these moments to happen since the onset of the show, but “It’s Always Sunny” now has innumerable directions to take the characters and their stories in. The series needs these experimentations with structure and storylines, because “It’s Always Sunny” is on the horizon of radical change. In the last scene of season 12, Dennis Reynolds, played by Glenn Howerton, exclaims that he’s done with the Gang’s childish capers and their inability to take anything seriously, ending his tirade with a dramatic exit of the bar in order to pursue a life with his recentlydiscovered illegitimate son in South Dakota. As it turns out, what might’ve been an amusing fish-out-of-water story arc for a couple episodes in season 13 might actually be a way to permanently write Howerton out of the show. Whether or not the series can handle the loss of (arguably) its best actor and most entertaining character remains to be seen, but as demonstrated by the latest season of “It’s Always Sunny,” the show is willing to take risks to compensate –it just needs to be a bit more diligent about its commitment to such gambles.

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Spike Lee’s ‘Do the Right Thing’ kicks off Nasher film series Brooklyn Bass The Chronicle What does the New York native and filmmaker Spike Lee have in common with Chicago’s rising artist Nina Chanel Abney? Despite differences in medium, Abney and Lee’s work share aesthetic similarities. They both share a wit that allows them to provide social commentary on rather controversial issues without compromising a style that is uniquely their own. Though their methods never go uncriticized, both creatives infuse comedy in their telling of the tragedy of race relations in the United States. As a result, Lee and Abney have been able to captivate audiences solely on this provocation. For this reason, the Program in Arts of the Moving Image and the Nasher Museum of Art co-sponsored the inclusion of Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” (1990) in the Nasher Film Series. On March 15, museum visitors watched the screening of the Academy Award nominated movie at the Nasher Museum of Art and proceeded to view Abney’s “Royal Flush.” Nasher director of engagement and marketing Wendy Hower hopes that the free movie screenings will

attract new visitors to the museum and engage visitors with the “Royal Flush” exhibition. The exhibition is Abney’s first solo showcase including thirty paintings, watercolors, collages and even a mural. Specifically, Hower believes that the “Do the Right Thing” screening is especially pertinent given today’s racial climate. “I find that the film is still relevant,” Hower said. “Unfortunately, this is because there has not been a lot of progress since the film’s debut in the early ‘90s.” “Do the Right Thing” is one of several films that is included in the Nasher Film Series. Starting in Feb. and ending in July 2017, the Nasher Film Series aims to complement Abney’s “Royal Flush” exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art. Co-curated by Ryan Helsel, the K-12 and Family Programs Educator at the Nasher Museum, featured film titles include Ava Duvernay’s “13th” (2016), Sacha Jenkin’s “Fresh Dressed” (2015) and Dee Rees’s “Pariah” (2011). All of the curated films aim to raise awareness and impart knowledge concerning black American issues such as mass incarceration and homophobia within the black community. These topics are also addressed in Abney’s artistic work. “We are so excited to introduce

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The Nasher and AMI screened the Spike Lee movie “Do the Right Thing” last Sunday.

this important young artist to wider audiences,” said Marshall N. Price and Nancy Hanks, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and curator of the exhibition. “In her monumental paintings, Abney takes on some of the most pressing issues today from racial dynamics and criminal justice to consumerism and celebrity culture. Her seductive visual language is comprised of a jumble of figures, words and shapes to the point of information overload.

With this as her backdrop, Abney creates paintings that explore some of the deeper recesses of human nature.” Hower suggests that student visitors lend a day to extending their knowledge about the black American experience by spending a few hours watching a film and viewing the accompanying exhibition. If one gets hungry during the visit, she reminds that the Nasher Cafe continues to serve Duke students on food points until 4 p.m.

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Almost four years removed from their debut album, Milky Chance has finally returned with their sophomore effort “Blossom.” The singles leading up to the release only hinted at the maturity the group has gained over the past few years. With the addition of multiinstrumentalist Antonio Greger, the German trio has filled out its sound and created a satisfyingly interesting product. The dynamic between founding members Clemens Rehbein and Philipp Dausch is unconventional: instead of splitting up instrumental duties, Rehbein sings and plays guitar while Dausch is responsible for the electronics, acting as DJ, mixer and producer. The initial development of this partnership resulted in 2013’s experimental, if repetitive, debut record “Sadnecessary,” featuring the viral hit “Stolen Dance.” For just two musicians, the album’s blend of folk, electronic, alternative rock and a tinge of reggae was impressive. Distinguished further by Rehbein’s striking raspy vocals, Milky Chance is one of the few groups in recent years to develop such a unique sound so immediately. Yet, the debut still felt sparse, with each song following a similar recipe. “Sadnecessary” felt like an EP leading up to an artist’s first album, a declaration of a musical idea with intentions of expanding on the concept in the subsequent LP. Thus, If “Sadnecessary” is to be considered a

glimpse at what the group had to offer, “Blossom” represents the full Milky Chance experience. The album opens with title track “Blossom” and “Ego”, the third and final single before the LP’s release. Both are a step forward in instrumentation, but the songwriting is straightforward and the songs probably wouldn’t be noticed on the radio despite their catchy choruses. The first standout track is “Firebird,” an acoustic jam with an electronic flair that features a fantastic guitar solo from Rehbein. In this final minute of the song, Rehbein shows more talent than ever. Beyond their signature catchiness and genre bending, Milky Chance proves here that they can masterfully focus on a single musical aspect as well. “Doing Good” is slightly annoying in its repetitive chorus (“I’m doin’ so good, I’m doin’ so good”), but it is saved by a guitar riff that sounds great after “Firebird.” As the second single, it’s a solid effort. “Clouds” is a forgettable dance track and a retread of “Sweet Sun” from “Sadnecessary,” but the following track takes the album and Milky Chance’s career in its most interesting direction yet. “Cold Blue Rain” encapsulates everything that Milky Chance has become on their new album: It’s a fascinating display of blues and rock, backed by a reggae beat, enhanced by the group’s characteristic electronics and topped off with an awesome harmonica melody from newcomer Antonio Greger. That all of this can be incorporated so seamlessly into one song is a wonderful testament to

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Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Milky Chance blends together several different genres in their latest album “Blossom.”

Dausch’s talents as a producer. It’s tracks like this that truly set Milky Chance apart from their peers. “Stay” tries to act as an interlude but too strongly recalls the sparse weak points of “Sadnecessary.” The intention is well-founded, and this would be a great place for an interlude to usher in the record’s excellent second half, but the song itself has no direction. Singer songwriter Izzy Bizu’s smooth vocals seem like the perfect complement to Rehbein’s raspy voice on “Bad Things,” a quirky groove stylized by a warped

guitar strum weaving through the two singers’ shared choruses. The transition to lead single “Cocoon” is incredibly appropriate, as the song felt almost too uplifting and radio-friendly ever since its release in November. The track is perfectly placed in the context of the album and eliminates any doubts about the group’s intentions for “Cocoon.” “Losing You” and “Alive” do not offer anything new and could have been left out, but they are separated by album highlight “Peripeteia,” with its Old See MILKY CHANCE on Page 10

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PURE COMEDY from page 7 what comes across as witty to some scans as empty provocation to others. In the new record, we find Father John Misty in full social-commentary mode. On “Total Entertainment Forever”—the one with that couplet involving Taylor Swift and Oculus Rift—Tillman wonders about the implications of a digitally-driven society: “When the historians find us we’ll be in our homes / Plugged into our hubs, skin and bones / A frozen smile on our face / As the stories replay / This must have been a wonderful place.” On “Two Wildly Different Perspectives,” he takes to task the deep cultural and political divisions present in 2017. “One side says, ‘Kill ‘em all’ / The other says, ‘Line those killers up against the wall,” he sings. “But either way, some blood is shed.” Tillman’s musical arrangements on “Pure Comedy” are decidedly minimalist, with acoustic guitar and piano driving most of these five-plusminute ballads, accented in places by a swelling orchestra. Occasionally, digital whirrs and chirps break the folk rock surface like notification alerts here rendered as dark omens. Unfortunately, the songwriting promise that Tillman displayed on “I Love You, Honeybear” isn’t in full force on “Pure Comedy,” making it an effortful and sometimes monotonous listen. In addition, Tillman is prone to Mark Kozelek-esque, hyper-detailed diversions that threaten to derail the

album’s focus. (An origin story about never learning how to play lead guitar on the 13-minute “Leaving L.A.” is a particular culprit.) Of course, everything about the Father John Misty brand is intentional. The relentless cynicism, the information overload, the absurdism—it’s all an elaborate construct. When you peel back those distractions, however, in those rare moments when the character lets his guard down, Tillman shines. It’s fitting that two of these moments bookend the album: At the end of the expository opening track “Pure Comedy,” Tillman finally confesses, “I hate to say it, but each other’s all we got.” (If this line sounds familiar, you might be thinking of a certain other cynical anti-hero.) By the final song, “In Twenty Years or So,” he emerges from his survey of the world weary, beaten and aged but unscathed. He imagines a scene with a nameless companion: “I read somewhere that in twenty years, more or less / This human experiment will reach its violent end / But I look at you as our second drinks arrive / The piano player’s playing ‘This Must Be the Place,’ and it’s a miracle to be alive.” While it only barely redeems the taxing hour-plus that precedes it, “In Twenty Years or So” exposes the intimate core beneath Father John Misty’s aesthetic, showing Tillman’s knack for finding the beauty on an often ugly planet. In a world that daily presents us with evidence to the contrary, Josh Tillman closes the latest chapter of his career as Father John Misty with a reassurance: “There’s nothing to fear.”

MILKY CHANCE from page 7 Western-esque guitar and a downright sexy harmonica solo. “Piano Song” suffers from an entirely-too-selfaware title, as the song itself works well and wouldn’t have been questioned despite being the first Milky Chance song that features a piano. It’s a dark and relatively short ballad, begging the question of whether it would have done better in place of “Stay” as an interlude? Either way, it’s great to see that the group has this kind of musical agility in it. Here’s hoping we’ll hear more of this in its future records. The album closes with “Heartless,” a six minute jam that, like “Cold Blue Rain,” showcases everything Milky Chance has achieved up to now. The guitar riff is so raw and the vocals so passionate that the song’s appropriate mood of accusing heartlessness does not stop listeners from tapping their feet to the rhythm. And nothing epitomizes the creativity and uniqueness of “Blossom” better than the song’s electronically warped harmonica. “Blossom” isn’t without its flaws: a few tracks are forgettable, and the singles are not all that interesting. Beyond these slight shortcomings the album is a collection of masterfully crafted songs that blend and bend several genres at a time. Surely helped by the addition of Antonio Greger, Milky Chance has progressed leaps and bounds beyond their debut. While their music might never be revolutionary, the group has an intriguing and fruitful career ahead of it.

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Lexi Bando combining for eight 3-pointers and 11 assists to also take advantage of Duke’s lackadaisical perimeter defense with Lambert out. Although Brown had 25 points and six assists, redshirt junior Rebecca Greenwell and freshman Leaonna Odom combined to shoot 5-of-18 to prevent the Blue Devil offense from taking flight. Duke’s second-leading scorer, Greenwell did not score until the fourth quarter and finished the contest with just six

A year ago at this exact point, the Atlantic Coast Conference had just made history—six of its teams were among the final 16 sides in the 2016 NCAA tournament. And even after Duke and Miami were throughly dominated in their Sweet 16 matchups, four teams advanced to set up a pair of all-ACC Elite Eight contests before North Carolina and 10th-seeded Syracuse faced off in the 2016 Final Four in Houston. This year’s ACC was hyped as potentially the best conference in college basketball history. The league had talent at the top and depth throughout— and some argued it had the chance to match an NCAA-record 11 tournament bids. Ultimately, nine ACC teams earned a spot in the 2017 version of the Big Dance—but with six of the nine among the selection committee’s top 20, the league had an opportunity to both top its own Sweet 16 record and settle the debate once and for all. Instead, what seemed to be an embarrassment of riches turned out to be little more than an embarrassment. No. 1 seed North Carolina is the ACC’s lone representative remaining, yet it was not an easy ride for the Tar Heels. Arkansas held a five-point advantage with 3:31 to play before North Carolina closed the game on a 12-0 run to eke out a Round of 32 win. But aside from the Tar Heels, the opening weekend could not have gone much worse.

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Emily Davis The Chronicle There was plenty at stake for the Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium Monday night—protecting an undefeated home record, adapting after losing sophomore guard Kyra Lambert to a torn ACL and earning a bid to the Sweet 16 were among the potential rewards for Duke. But Lambert’s absence seemed to hang over the second-seeded Blue Devils from the opening tip, leading to a second Round of 32 upset at home in four years. Tenth-seeded Oregon shredded Duke’s matchup zone defense on its way to a 74-65 upset victory at Cameron Indoor Stadium 74 Monday ORE night. The Ducks racked DUKE 65 up 20 assists on 26 made buckets and got a 20-point, 15-rebound effort from freshman Ruthy Hebard inside to give their potent outside shooters plenty of room to fire away. Oregon led for almost the entire game, using a 7-0 spurt at the end of the third quarter to go up by 11 then keeping the Blue Devils from getting closer than eight until the final moments. As the Ducks’ high-powered offense dictated tempo, Duke’s own normally efficient offense withered. Despite entering the game in the top six nationally in field goal percentage and 3-point percentage, the Blue Devils shot just 38.8 percent overall and 2-of-15 from long

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Neal Vaidya | The Chronicle With starting guard Kyra Lambert out, head coach Joanne P. McCallie’s team never looked comfortable on its way to its first home loss of the year.

range, missing several layups and wide open looks that could have given the team a chance to secure a win late. “The thing that changed is we had much fewer options on the outside in terms of outside shooting. Kyra was a huge part of that, being a threat on the outside,” Duke guard Lexie Brown said. “We just had to make things happen on offense and we had to make shots. We were getting any shot we wanted, but some of them were just not going down.” Oregon had no such issues from long distance, with guards Maite Cazorla and

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Bre Bradham | The Chronicle The Blue Devils got off to a strong start Tuesday to get back above .500 for the season heading into another ACC series.

Just two days removed from a performance that Blue Devil head coach Chris Pollard described as both “ugly” and “hard to watch,” Duke returned to the field looking for redemption. And with a struggling opponent in Durham for a mid-week matchup, the Blue Devils were able to move back above .500 for the season. Behind a steady UMES 3 outing from starting Graeme DUKE 10 pitcher Stinson, Duke kept Maryland Eastern Shore in check as the Blue Devils picked up a comfortable 10-3 victory Tuesday evening at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. The freshman southpaw tossed just four innings, but opened the contest with three perfect frames before a two-out single in the fourth inning ended Stinson’s bid for a no-hitter.

As the Norcross, Ga., native kept things solid on the mound, the Duke offense went to work early, getting four runs in the first three innings to set the tone for the remainder of the evening. After a two-out walk was issued to right fielder Griffin Conine, third baseman Jack Labosky smacked a double down the left field line, putting runners on second and third for Michael Smiciklas. The junior then capitalized with a two-run single back up the middle, staking his team to a 2-0 lead and extending his hitting streak to five games. With runners on second and third again in the third inning, a wild pitch from Hawk starter Chris Melrath—who finished the game with an ugly line of seven runs on five hits with five walks in just 4.1 innings—scored catcher Chris Proctor. Three batters later, a sacrifice fly from Peter Zyla allowed Conine to cross the plate for his second run of the night. See BASEBALL on Page 13

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Lambert’s absence seen most in Duke’s zone defense Andrew Donohue The Chronicle After the Blue Devils gave up 77 points in an early-season loss to Vanderbilt, one wondered whether Duke’s defense would improve enough to make the team an ACC contender. The Blue Devils responded by using a stifling matchup zone defense to knock off then-No. 3 South Carolina just a few weeks later and hold opponents to fewer than 70 points in 22 straight games after their first defeat of the season in Nashville. The active defense propelled the Blue Devils to new heights, as Duke earned eight top-25 wins on its way to tying for second in the ACC regular-season standings and advancing to the conference tournament title game. The Blue Devils’ zone held opponents to just 54.9 points per game and 33.3 percent shooting from the field entering Monday’s contest, giving head coach Joanne P. McCallie’s team a proven formula for staying in games even when its offense was out of sorts. The key to Duke’s matchup zone was the activity at the top, with Kyra Lambert and Lexie Brown among the nation’s best at pressuring the ball and jumping into passing lanes. Even when opponents hit the high post or short corner— the two soft spots in any zone scheme—Lambert and Brown had a knack for disrupting plays as help defenders and using their speed to still close out on 3-point shooters. But with Lambert lost to a torn ACL she suffered in Saturday’s first-round win against

Hampton, the Blue Devils looked like a completely different team defensively, and Duke’s recipe for success quickly turned into a beacon of failure. Although the Blue Devils tried to use a bigger lineup to match up with a hot-shooting Oregon team, their lack of quickness on the perimeter without their fiery sophomore guard highlighted the unit’s limited perimeter depth. “You could never replace a person like Kyra,” McCallie said at a press conference the day before Monday’s game. “We will not try to. We will not try to reinvent that.” Based on those comments, one might have expected Duke to try a different defensive strategy—especially after the Ducks assisted on all eight of their buckets in the first quarter— but the Blue Devils stayed in the matchup zone throughout their season-ending loss. Oregon had little trouble exploiting the gaps early and often, comfortably getting the ball to the high post and either kicking the ball out for uncharacteristically open 3-pointers or attacking in the paint. Duck freshman Ruthy Hebard controlled the interior with 20 points and 15 rebounds, forcing Duke to collapse inside and leaving the Blue Devils susceptible to quick passes back out to the perimeter. “The game plan was just to play through the high post,” Hebard said. “We would always have open shooters and [players] inside, so I just tried to be strong with the ball and do what I do.” A few defensive lapses early on were expected, especially as Duke learned to play without its perimeter spark plug.

Neal Vaidya | The Chronicle Oregon made nine 3-pointers Monday, lighting up the best scoring defense in the ACC for 20 assists and 74 points.

But as the contest wore on, it became clear that Oregon was not getting sped up by the Blue Devils or bothered by their length like so many previous victims of the matchup zone. Without Lambert’s ball pressure, the Ducks were able to play at a comfortable pace in a way no opponent had at Cameron Indoor Stadium all season. “Kyra was one of our best perimeter defenders, so you have to factor that into our defense,” Brown said. “I thought that we held them in check at times and at times we had breakdowns defensively.” As is the case with any zone defense, Duke’s is susceptible to quick ball reversals and precise 3-point shooting. The Blue Devils had still been one of the nation’s top 3-point shooting defensive units, often rotating fast enough to force rushed attempts and holding teams to just 25.9 percent from beyond the arc before Monday—the second-best mark in the nation. Against one of the nation’s top perimeter shooting units, however, Duke was unable to impose its will. The Ducks entered the game ranked fourth nationally at 39.2 percent, with junior Lexi Bando leading the way with a quartet of triples. Although Bando missed her first five triples Monday, her team was generating wide open looks and executing well enough to maintain the lead on the road. Once Bando got going to make four of her next seven 3-pointers, Oregon pulled away, going ahead by 15 early in the fourth quarter after Bando and Maite Cazorla—who also knocked down four triples—hit back-to-back daggers. “Those guards deserve a lot of credit,” McCallie

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said. “They worked the ball well, the three of them, and created. There were stops, obviously, that we didn’t make, whether they could penetrate and kick or passes around the perimeter.” The Ducks were slotted as a No. 10 seed in the NCAA tournament, but their rare combination of strong interior scoring and an array of sharpshooters was the perfect combination to capitalize on Lambert’s absence. Even with Oregon missing several open perimeter shots, the Ducks finished with 74 points—a far cry from what McCallie’s team had gotten accustomed to allowing during its 87-game home winning streak against unranked nonconference opponents. And as is often the case, one side of the court affected the other. Without long rebounds to start Duke’s transition attack and Oregon pressuring the Blue Devils to wear down Brown, Duke’s normally efficient shooting disappeared. Redshirt junior Rebecca Greenwell seemed particularly affected by Lambert’s absence, shooting just 3-of-11 with five turnovers after being thrust into a more prominent ball-handling role. The end result was the same as it was in 2014 following another injury-plagued season. The Blue Devils were left watching an elated opponent celebrate a rare triumph for a less heralded program at Cameron Indoor Stadium and wondering what happened to their perimeter depth. “They had more players step up and play across the board,” McCallie said. “They had better balance with 20 assists and they played more of a full 40 [minutes].”

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in the final 1:33 of the third period to from page 11 put their team up by 11. Back-to-back 3-pointers by Bando and Cazorla made it a 15-point game From there, the Blue Devils’ pitching staff with eight minutes remaining, and a 7-0 continued to assert itself. Following Stinson’s response from the Blue Devils led by one-hit, six-strikeout shutout performance, Brown and Chidom was not enough to senior Kevin Lewallyn pitched a pair of get Duke within striking distance. scoreless frames. The lefty had made just “We were unfortunately a second three appearances prior to Tuesday, but struck half team all year. And we continued out three and surrendered only two hits as to be a second half team in this Maryland Eastern Shore remained quiet game,” Blue Devil head coach Joanne through six innings of play. P. McCallie said. “That’s not enough. In the meantime, Duke (12-11) continued These are all really good teams—you to add to its advantage—the Blue Devils loaded need to be a full 40-minute team. I the bases with just one out in the fifth, forcing would tell you we played about 20 the Hawks to pull Melrath. minutes in this game.” But Maryland Eastern Shore reliever Evan Although the Blue Devils had a season Bertone could not stop the bleeding as Zyla of redemption after missing the NCAA wreaked havoc on the Hawks. His RBI fielder’s tournament for the first time since 1994 choice kicked off the scoring before the junior last year by finishing tied for second in swiped second base, and an errant throw from the ACC regular-season standings and the catcher allowed Conine to score yet again. advancing to the conference tournament Zyla later tallied Duke’s seventh run on one of title game, another season ended on a two Hawk wild pitches. sour note for McCallie’s team. The only blemish for the home team came Duke has now failed to advance in the seventh when James Ziemba made a relief to the Sweet 16 for the third time in appearance in the top of the seventh. The 6-footfour years, and will lose senior post 10 southpaw struggled yet again, loading the bases players Chidom and Kendall Cooper with a hit by pitch, single and walk. Maryland as it looks to regroup once again in Eastern Shore (3-14) then finally got on the board with consecutive singles, plating a trio of runs to cut the offseason. As the Blue Devils left the court for into the Blue Devils’ hefty margin. the final time this season, they could With another pair of runs in the eighth, only watch Oregon celebrate its first-ever though, Duke stretched its lead seven, setting Sweet 16 knowing that the tournament’s the stage for Labosky to make his now-usual second weekend has now also become a closer appearance on the mound. The versatile junior set down the Hawks in order to seal the rarity for Duke’s current players. “We’re very grateful to Oderah and win, maintaining his team-best ERA at 0.69 for Kendall as seniors for their fight in the the season. second half and really stepping up when The Blue Devils will get back to ACC play this Theit,” NewMcCallie York Times Syndication Corporation we needed said. “We hadSales weekend as they travel to Charlottesville, Va., 620that Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 for their first true road series of the season—a an opportunity we didn’t take full For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 three-game advantage of, For and that hurts.” ForRelease Release Wednesday, Tuesday, March March21, 22,2017 2017 set against No. 21 Virginia.

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W. BASKETBALL from page 11 points against five turnovers. With one of their two primary ball handlers and the head of their defense not available, the Blue Devils (28-6) looked shaky from the opening tip. Duke missed seven straight shots early in the game to let Oregon (22-13) get comfortable on the road, with the Ducks’ ball movement inside and out at the high post as well as along the baseline allowing Oregon to dissect the top scoring defense in the ACC. The Blue Devils had gotten in the habit of holding teams to fewer than 70 points at home, with only one team reaching that threshold all season. On

Monday, it was clear Duke would need to score more than that with the Ducks on track from the outset. “Oregon is a great team and they hit a lot of tough shots,” senior Oderah Chidom said. “Our defense was there when we needed it to be, but they just kept hitting shots.” Although Crystal Primm scored eight points in the first half in Lambert’s place and helped Duke capture a brief 20-19 lead in the second quarter, Oregon held Chidom and company without a point in the half’s final 3:42 to maintain a 31-26 lead going into the locker room. With the Blue Devils unable to get Greenwell going, the Ducks continued surging anytime Duke got close, with Hebard, Cazorla and Bando all scoring

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n Tuesday Charles Murray spoke on campus at event organized by students involved with the American Enterprise Institute and the Duke College Republicans. While our student body’s response was not on par with Middlebury’s mobilization to Murray’s visit on their campus, his visits always stoke conversations about free speech and protests. Those who support Murray’s coming to campus this year and in 2013 often cite an interest in free speech, and Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, expressed that the university had “no reservations whatsoever.” However, Murray’s previous work merits much closer scrutiny than the average speaker. In our view, AEI and DCR were wrong to invite him to speak on campus, and his presence is an affront to the very students his previous works diminish as well as the educational mission of our University, especially its commitments to diversity and academic excellence. In 1994, Murray authored “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life” and was roundly criticized for his subtle but widely noted discussion of how intelligence could be tied to race, echoing the ideas of eugenists of years past. Although Tuesday’s visit did not concern “The Bell Curve,” his continued commitment to it after much

peer criticism along with its inseparability from his career and academic reputation should not be disregarded. The book’s implications fly in the face of work done by Duke’s very own faculty to dispel theories of race-based intelligence, notions of racial inferiority and specious work that lends itself to such conclusions. The idea that IQ is genetic and linked to race is a dangerous one that actively challenges the safety and qualifications of students of color across society and especially at universities.

Editorial Contrary to what conservative and free speech groups across the country may argue, Murray’s talk does not symbolize a desire for an open public forum but rather a reaction to the increasingly loud voices of marginalized students on campus. Bringing a figure that has been documented as a white nationalist to Duke so that he can speak in a closed, ticketed event is not in line with the principles of free speech. Neither is ignoring our calls for scrutiny of his past work and an answer from the student groups that invite him to campus time and again.

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Moreover, it would be intellectually lazy to assume that dissenting students are blindly picketing anything and everything that happens on campus. His reputation is a tarnished reminder of a dark history of academia, only so many steps removed from phrenology and the academics who once condemned mixed race children as a harm to society. The invitation extended to him is another tacit endorsement of “The Bell Curve” that fails to recognize that some theories and research remain on the fringes of academia for good reason. Ultimately, Murray and his outdated, white supremacist ideals—or certainly his continued adherence to “The Bell Curve”—have no place on a campus that prides itself on equity, academic rigor and diversity. As at Middlebury, it was a poorly thought-out decision for the platform of a university to be turned over even for an evening to a thinker like Murray. Opposition to Murray is not about attacking free speech so much as it is considering an academic’s work and evaluating their merits as fully as possible. It would benefit Duke and those who support Murray to consider the fact that some opinions are controversial not because they have been shouted down by “politically correct liberals,” but because they are patently false or feed into dangerous historical trends that only hindsight will reveal.

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o you know how many of your professors are having trouble paying rent? How about how many might not have a job at the end of the year? It might be more than you would initially guess. Every undergraduate at Duke likely has had at least one contingent faculty member as a professor during his or her time here, given that such faculty comprise over 40 percent of Duke’s total staff. These professors spend hours in the classroom with us each week during the semester, edit our midterm papers, answer frantic emails before exams and help us understand particularly difficult concepts in office hours. In spite of their work and qualifications, many contingent professors lack access to benefits and job security. These faculty members possess advanced degrees across all areas of study, ranging from Biology to

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Evolutionary Anthropology to Mathematics; from Italian to Economics to Sociology. A majority of such professors have terminal degrees; by all metrics, they are regarded as experts in their respective fields. This is why they teach at Duke. Yet our Spanish, Writing 101 and Biology instructors often have difficulty accessing necessary technology and lack permanent offices. They provide students with a worldclass education and produce incredible publications, all of which adds to Duke’s prestige. However, these professors must work knowing they could be let go during the next academic year. More than half of the faculty in the bargaining unit have contracts for one year or less. Effectively, they get “fired” every year or semester and must be rehired again each time with no guarantee of return. When students walk into a classroom, we do not know if our favorite professor is at risk of losing his or her job next year, or if he or she struggles to pay rent. The contingent faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of forming a union last year. Now contingent faculty members need the support of students as they bargain

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lright! Here’s what we are going to do: we are going to go to the bar. We are going to drink some drinks. And then. We’re out.” So began my friends’ and my going out chant each night during our stay in Cancún, Mexico. Originally from a stand-up comedy routine, this chant become our call-to-arms for going out to clubs and having drinks on the town. Moreover, it symbolized the “stereotypical”—although perhaps not accurate—College Student Spring Break routine: a time for raging rather than for relaxing. To describe my own experience in the terms of one of my friends: it was “LIT.” In other words, as a male extrovert who sometimes enjoys crowded spaces with a lot of small talk, the clubs and the atmosphere were electric. Between the beach during the day and going out at night, it was easy to forget about Duke’s stressors,

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consequences for the surrounding region. Different cartel groups, ranging from the Siñalo to the Zetas, fight to control the area’s drug trafficking. Each group is eager to profit from spring breakers. The ongoing fight for this source of revenue triggers further violence in Cancún and increased exploitation of the surrounding region. This spring break, my friends and I had the privilege of being able to leave Duke and travel to Cancún. We went to clubs. We stayed in an all-inclusive hotel. We benefitted indirectly from the exploitation of local residents. Essentially, we used a country rather than experienced it. I can say that I am more aware of such problems than when I first arrived there. But that is not the problem with which I currently wrestle. I worry that this awareness might not even matter. No, I am not the college student just feeling guilty about his spring break trip and trying to justify it. I am

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he issue of sexual assault on college campuses has become an important conversation in the media, academia and among students themselves—including Duke students. According to the National Sexual Violence Research Center, one in five women will be sexually assaulted while in college whereas 90 percent of sexual assaults will go unreported. Duke’s Student Affairs has conducted its own research to evaluate the prevalence of sexual assault cases in the undergraduate and graduate student bodies. It has found that in the year 20152016, 16.8 percent of undergraduate women report having been sexually assaulted; 39 percent deemed their assault “upsetting” and 11 percent “very upsetting.” The dominant narrative regarding this widespread problem argues that although sex should remain completely free, it must also be consensual. In other words, although no code of morality should regulate sex—other than the code of morality one prescribes to oneself—the

colleges campuses do not happen in a vacuum; rather, it occurs in the context of the “hookup culture,” as many scholars have noted. “Hookup,” as sociologist Lisa Wade notes in American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus, can be defined in a variety of ways ranging from mere kissing to vaginal penetration. However, it often implies a sexual encounter that is free from sentimental or romantic entanglements. According to Wage, students today do not have more sexual partners than their parents had during their time in college. The difference between both generations lies in the emergence of the hookup culture, which makes students believe that hooking up is the norm—even the desirable norm. Men feel pressured to hook up with as many girls as possible, especially girls that match the societal understanding of “hotness,” in order to uphold their masculinity. Women gradually feel pressured to forego their feelings of attachment and give way to men’s sexual demands and fantasies. The main takeaway is that this culture

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finally unwind and live in the present. Nothing was going to make me snap out of my much-needed state of bliss—well, except for one thing. On our third night in Cancún, my friends and I waited outside among a crowd to be let into a trendy club known as the “The City.” This night, though, the line was a madhouse. College students trampled each other in a desperate attempt to reach the front of the line and get into the club. However, two locals scurried between drunken pushing and shoving. These two children were no more than seven or eight years old, and desperately were trying to sell their wares. Any previous illusion of tranquility shattered. Sure, it was easy to see the examples of poverty and exploitation around me. But it took a separate incident altogether view my own role in it. After this point, only one question remained—was it ethical for me to enjoy Cancún? There is significant tragedy that goes into the making of a place like Cancún. Most locals who work in the hotels are paid minimum wage—when jobs even are available. Furthermore, given that a large number of these locals are indigenous, these individuals face discrimination both from foreigners and from individuals within their own country. Moreover, despite the existence of hotels and clubs as sources of revenue from tourism, very little of this money ends up benefitting Mexico. The majority of clubs are owned by groups based in the United States and Europe. In addition, the creation of the all-inclusive hotel model has led to the continued collapse of local businesses. The culture of Cancún also has

trying to be realistic. As much as some individuals might believe that I am creating drama about nothing, these are questions we should consider. As much as some might say that we should simply stop going to similar places altogether, people will continue to go. My ultimate question is as follows: is our awareness enough? Should students feel guilty about taking these trips? Do we do a disservice to our Duke education by potentially contributing to these aforementioned problems? These questions are especially worth considering given that other vacationers fail to even acknowledge the implications of their actions. Honestly, I do not have a universal answer to such questions. The problems of Cancún stem from larger problems associated with the exploitation of developing countries. In addition, they will not simply disappear if students stop going there. These arguments also can apply to many different problems and situations within our lives. There are too often scenarios in which we are aware of the indirect negative forces at play, but do not feel that we contribute directly to them. Ultimately, what makes these questions ethical conundrums is the fact that they involve personal decisions we must make. That there is no correct answer. That in deciding where and how we spend our spring breaks or make decisions, the result comes down to what we value as individuals and how we wish to treat other people. George Mellgard is a Trinity senior. His column, “esse quam videri,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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prevention of rape and sexual assault relies on the fact that both sexual partners agree to the same sexual act. The problem is that what consent means has been subject to debate in recent years. Initially, a “no means no” consensus developed. If a person said “no” to performing a sexual act and the partner still went ahead with the sexual act, this behavior would be considered sexual assault or rape. However, in the early 2010s, feminists and social activists started arguing that women often feel pressured or intimidated to comply with the sexual advances of males, rendering them unable to voice a clear opposition to performing certain sexual acts. In order to put an end to all ambiguity, activists pushed for a more stringent definition of consent: “yes means yes.” So far, this has been fairly successful; for example, the state of California adopted Bill SB967, which defined legal consent according to the principles of “yes means yes.” In California, if someone has sexual intercourse with a partner and that partner files a complaint against him or her, the accused is considered guilty until he or she can prove that the complainant provided continuous affirmative consent. This entails saying “yes” or showing clear “enthusiasm” for each and every sexual act the partner performs. DB967 and other legislations based on “yes means yes” were widely criticized by numerous legal scholars and practitioners across the country. Apart from the problem that the government now codifies the way people performed their most intimate act—sex—“yes means yes” represents a flagrant breach to due process. Due process establishes that a person is presumed innocent unless proven otherwise, not that a person is presumed guilty unless proven otherwise. Even if cases of victims falsely accusing perpetrators of sexual assault are extremely rare, and even if many victims face the stigma of not being believed for their testimony, we should still trust the tradition of the rule of law. Indeed, since our elders drafted the British Habeas Corpus Act in 1679, they understood that the best protection against tyranny does not rely on emotions, assumptions or dogma; it depends on reasonable evidence. However, the bigger questions remain. How do we protect women and men against the risk of sexual assault and rape? How should we define consent in a way that legally protects people yet respects the rule of law? Is consent even enough to reduce the incidence of rape and sexual assault? First we must understand that sexual assault on

loathes attachment, relationship, sacrifice and love; instead, it glorifies immediate pleasure. Working within the hookup culture, college administrators and lawmakers have come up with the concept of consent. They have thought, “Just like people involved in a business deal, you students only seem interested in short term personal gain, not long term relationships. Therefore, we’ve got to make sure that both parties agree to the terms of the deal, which means signing—or agreeing orally to—a document that specifies all the terms of the deal: consent.” Here arises the fundamental contradiction of consent in the post-sexual revolution era. “Alright, would you like me to introduce my penis in your mouth, and then later in your vagina?” “That’s cool, honey, I only agree to vaginal penetration.” These interactions are supposed to express people’s most intimate feelings and desires, ones they might even hide from their closest friends or siblings. For partners to be straightforward about what kind of sexual acts they are willing to perform, they must build relationships of trust, respect and sacrifice: relationships that are unambiguous about the shared love upon which they are built. This is incompatible with the hookup culture. This column is driven from a very personal story. It took me awhile to free myself from the expectations of the hookup culture that were alienating me; it took me awhile to realize, through my readings and experiences, what this culture truly is: a recipe for greed, betrayal and rape. Thanks to my renewed Catholic faith, I now view sex not as a way to attain immediate pleasure, but as a way to express love for a partner and to bridge a long-lasting, deep relationship. Indeed, as Jesus said in the Gospel, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another” (John 13:34). But I also would like to open a conversation on campus. I believe the ideology of moral relativism has shown its limits. In order to truly tackle the problems of sexual assault and rape, we must combat the hookup culture itself. We must go back to the wisdom of religions and ancient philosophies, which uphold that what is legal is not necessarily ethical. Most importantly, we must figure out ways to foster a campus culture where students treat each other not as meat, but rather as human beings worthy of esteem and love. Emile Riachi is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “the voice of dissent,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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ACC from page 11 Wake Forest failed to win its First Four game, No. 9 seed Virginia Tech went out in the first round against Wisconsin and the eighth-seeded Hurricanes got steamrolled in the opening round thanks to a 20-2 Michigan State first-half outburst. In the second round, No. 3 seed Florida State and fifth-seeded Virginia were smushed in 25- and 26-point blowouts, No. 2 Louisville was outlasted by Michigan and No. 5 seed Notre Dame came up well short against West Virginia after barely hanging on in the first round against Princeton. The Blue Devils had a chance Sunday night to solve some of the league’s woes. And yet the preseason’s No. 1 team—

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one loaded with talent and one of the alltime coaching greats—could not take out a South Carolina team that finished third in the SEC and had the nation’s 122ndranked adjusted offensive efficiency, per statistician Ken Pomeroy. What does this all say about the ACC? Pretty clearly, the league was nowhere near as strong as we thought it to be. Yes, the ACC had 11 of its 15 teams inside the top 54 of Pomeroy’s overall rankings—more than any other conference. It had two more top-five seeds than any other league—the Big 12 was next with four. But what about the case against it? Only two ACC players have won the Naismith Player of the Year trophy since 2002, and none since Tar Heel Tyler Hansbrough last collected the award in

2008—there are no ACC players among the four finalists this season. The league also did not earn many bigtime nonconference wins this season. Sure, Duke and the Seminoles beat Florida, the Cardinals topped both Kentucky and Purdue and North Carolina got a solid neutral-site victory against Wisconsin. But the Blue Devils came up short against Kansas. North Carolina failed to beat Kentucky. Both the Fighting Irish and Cavaliers could not top Villanova. The Seminoles did not play a true road game until Dec. 31, and Louisville still lost to Baylor. Perhaps most importantly, the Big 12, Big Ten, SEC and Pac-12 all have three representatives in this weekend’s Sweet 16 and even the Big East has a pair of teams. The ACC has one. Now, I am not one to make snap judgments to a single four-day weekend after a grueling four-and-a-half months of college basketball. Even when Duke was not playing, I found myself tuning into ACC game after ACC game. Every night was a dogfight— N.C. State pulled off an unexpected and miraculous win in Durham Jan. 23 and Georgia Tech, which is still in the midst of a deep NIT run, knocked off three of the league’s top four teams on its home floor. And figure this: The ACC’s 201516 nonconference record was 166-49, winning games at a better than 77 percent clip. How did the league fare in 2016-17? A nearly identical 165-46. Maybe the ACC simply wore itself down throughout the season—both the Blue Devils and Notre Dame utilized relatively small rotations en route to a spot in the conference tournament title game. Neither team looked consistently sharp this weekend and both were sent packing in the Round of 32.

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The Chronicle Maybe it was a lack of defense—just seven of the ACC’s 15 teams are inside the top 50 in adjusted defensive efficiency, compared with seven of 10 for the Big 12 and seven of 14 for the Big Ten. And of the SEC’s 14 teams, four are among the nation’s 10 best defenses. When it came tournament time, offense did not come as easily. Five of the eight eliminated teams scored 71 points or fewer in their losses, a mark which 11 of 15 ACC teams surpassed on average during their 18-game conference slate. There certainly was no conference more compelling than the ACC. The league has the four winningest active coaches in the nation—who all have at least 600 victories—has the best rivalry in all of college sports and lays claim to seven national championships since 2001. But as this year has shown, great drama does not always translate to postseason success.

Juan Bermudez | Chronicle File Photo Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey saw his team beaten by a tough-minded West Virginia side last weekend.