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admins to take action Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Many students have expressed frustration with the University’s response to the death threat including a homophobic slur written on a wall in East Residence Hall Thursday. The threat against freshman Jack Donahue—written in black marker— was discovered at approximately 3 a.m. Thursday morning and was removed Thursday afternoon. The Office of Student Affairs released an email Friday night at approximately 11:30 p.m. to the student body stating that “Duke does not and will never condone intolerance” after a protest was held on the Chapel steps that afternoon. Students said they were dissatisfied with the email’s wording and the relatively delayed response from Duke administration almost 48 hours after the threat was first discovered. “We do appreciate [the email] but other universities are setting precedents much higher,” said senior Tyler Nelson, president of Blue Devils United. “[The administration] stepping up a little would do a lot to make this campus a more inclusive place.” Nelson explained that he wished the administration had responded in a “right up front and personal” way, adding that the administration is responsible for setting precedents for students and future campus leaders. See RESPONSE on Page 12

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle BDU President Tyler Nelson implored administration to be more forthright in responding to last week’s death threat.

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Lucy Zhang The Chronicle The Safe Campus Act—a federal bill put forth in the House of Representatives to address sexual violence on college campuses—has raised discussion among Duke faculty and students. There are currently several proposed bills in Congress that deal with sexual misconduct, including the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, the Safe Campus Act and the Fair Campus Act. The Safe Campus Act—which requires that victims report to the police and administration in order to prosecute a student for sexual assault—has created controversy on many college campuses, including at Duke. Several administrators and students have voiced their opinion amid the debate surrounding the bill. “The Safe Campus Act would prevent a school from enforcing its policies on sexual misconduct unless the reporting student agrees to a police investigation,” wrote Howard Kallem, director of Title IX compliance at Duke, in an email. Even then, only once the police

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department notifies the school of the student’s report can the case proceed. Kallem noted that the federal Violence Against Women Act, in place since 1994, recognizes that a student may not want to involve the police in certain situations and requires that students be made aware of their right to file or not file a police report. In addition, the Safe Campus Act imposes due process requirements for sexual misconduct proceedings. These requirements, Kallem noted, tend to focus the bill on the responding party rather than the reporting victim. “For example, [the Safe Campus Act] requires schools to provide responding parties with the opportunity to ‘safely confront witnesses, including the complainant,’ without requiring a similar opportunity for reporting parties, and it provides for judicial review of a school’s decision for the responding party but not for the reporting party/complainant,” Kallem wrote. Junior Dana Raphael, who is a columnist for The Chronicle, expanded on the potential limitations of the Act, highlighting that the Safe Campus Act

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overlooks the fact that the university adjudication process is meant to be distinct from criminal proceedings. For instance, Raphael gave the example that in North Carolina, anal rape does not legally qualify as rape, but at Duke, it is qualified as rape under the University’s sexual misconduct policy. “It is completely insane to say that unless a survivor goes through the trauma that is a police investigation, they can’t get any services from their school,” Raphael wrote in an email. “That completely reneges on Title IX’s promises to protect people from sex-based discrimination—including sexual assault—in their schooling.” Title IX entails that colleges and universities have an independent obligation to deal with sexual misconduct in a timely fashion regardless of whether a police investigation occurs. “Title IX also states that a criminal investigation into allegations of sexual violence does not substitute the school’s duty to respond to complaints promptly and equitably,” Kallem wrote, adding that police and prosecutors use different legal See SAFE CAMPUS ACT on Page 12

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AEI scholar Zimmerman critical of U.S. foreign policy in Yemen Sarah Kerman The Chronicle Katherine Zimmerman, a scholar specializing in the al-Qaida network, critiqued U.S. foreign policy in Yemen at a student discussion Tuesday evening. The American Enterprise Institute at Duke, Duke International Relations Association and the Duke Israel Public Affairs Committee co-sponsored the talk by Zimmerman, the lead analyst on al-Qaida for the right-leaning thinktank AEI’s Critical Threats project. In her talk, which was delivered via Skype, Zimmerman noted that the U.S. should look to combat the conditions that allow for groups like al-Qaida to rise to power rather than targeting individual leaders in the group. “We’re only fighting the tip of the sphere of al-Qaida and not actually going after the foundations on which they are built,” Zimmerman said. She criticized current U.S. policy in Yemen for only focusing on a small cell of individuals who lead al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Yemeni al-Qaida organization, rather than viewing larger insurgency groups as the primary threat. She noted that Yemeni citizens have also expressed grievances such as political marginalization and the unfair distribution of wealth. The situation is complicated further because Yemen is home to so many regional identities, she explained, noting local concerns about resource distribution. Some of Yemen’s key natural resources lie in its poorest provinces. “These are nation-states, but they have

histories,” Zimmerman said. “Yemen easily fractures into six natural divisions... all of them are trying to figure out how to balance the distribution of natural resources justly.” In the question-and-answer portion, sophomore Eidan Jacob asked Zimmerman if it is realistic that Yemen would divide into multiple countries. Zimmerman expressed doubt about the prospect of a division and said that diplomatic efforts to determine which Yemeni government is recognized are underway. “There has to be some sort of unified state because of natural resource distribution,” she said, noting that southern Yemen is economically significant because of its oil resources. Zimmerman emphasized that U.S. policy in Yemen fails to understand the complexities of the issues on the ground, whereas al-Qaida has a better understanding of these issues, which it has used to gain influence in recent years. She also noted that AQAP does not itself govern. Rather, it has locally appointed councils that lean towards decisions favorable to AQAP and identify grievances the group can use to strengthen its insurgency. Partly because of al-Qaida’s understanding of the problems in the area, Zimmerman explained that U.S. partnerships with local Yemeni military forces have not been sufficient. “This is a place where the security forces are so degraded that they will not be viable partners next year,” Zimmerman said. She explained that Yemen is a “chaotic system” because it is often difficult to

obtain information about who is fighting for whom or what weapons each group possesses. Recent efforts have been damaged by a weakening in the alliance between Saudi Arabia and the United States, she noted. “The Iran deal was a huge blow to that partnership,” she said. Senior Pi Praveen, chair of the American Enterprise Institute Executive Council at Duke, asked Zimmerman about comparisons ou can between al-Qaida defeat a and the Islamic State group— group, but you questioning why haven’t defeated Zimmerman the idea and the believes that conditions on the AQAP has more endurance in the ground. long run relative to the Islamic — Katherine State group. Zimmerman Zimmerman said that AQAP is more of a longterm threat than the Islamic State group in Yemen because it is more well-versed in delivering their message to the Yemenis and solving problems by, for example, providing clean water or teachers for local schools. She did note, however, that the Islamic State group has mobilized social media in ways alQaida has not. Both groups are real threats, she noted, explaining that the U.S. needs to develop a comprehensive strategy to go after the Islamic State group, al-Qaida and other jihadist movements, as well as the conditions that allow them to grow. “You can defeat a group, but you haven’t

defeated the idea and the conditions on the ground,” Zimmerman said. Several students among the approximately 15 who attended the talk at the Link, expressed their appreciation for Zimmerman’s emphasis on the need to combat these conditions comprehensively. “I think that she was super engaging. She breaks down this issue into different aspects. We got a very comprehensive view of Yemen,” sophomore Jenny Peng said.

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Duke’s Katz describes developing measles vaccine Ian Jaffe The Chronicle One of the developers of the measles vaccine, Dr. Samuel Katz, pushed students to fight for the eradication of preventable diseases Tuesday night at the French Family Science Center. Katz, the Wilburt Cornell Davison professor and chairman emeritus of pediatrics at the Duke University School of Medicine, spent f you could the first part of develop his talk—which was hosted by a vaccine for Duke Red Cross polio, why not for and the Duke Undergraduate measles? Research Society— — Dr. Samuel focusing on Katz his role in the discovery of the measles vaccine. He also discussed his work in Nigeria testing and evaluating the vaccine, emphasizing that measles can be more deadly in low-resource nations where malnourishment and other diseases are common. “The mothers in Nigeria said, ‘you don’t count your children until measles has passed,’” explained Katz, who mentioned that when he first traveled to Nigeria, the mortality rate for measles was as high as 15 percent. Katz also noted that the polio vaccines developed in the 1950s were a major motivation for Nobel laureate John Enders to switch his focus to measles. Enders and Katz worked together at Children’s Hospital Boston Center to

develop the vaccine. “If you could develop a vaccine for polio, why not for measles?” he recalled asking himself. Before the development of the vaccine, measles was a common childhood ailment that infected between 3 and 4 million children every year in the U.S. alone. While most children only experienced a fever, rash or other symptoms, a small percentage of cases resulted in death. The vaccine went on the market in 1963. The work to combat measles continues today, and Katz said he hoped students would work to help eradicate it. He expressed gratitude for the Red Cross’ current eradication program— the Measles and Rubella Initiative. The initiative delivers vaccines for childhood illnesses to resource-poor nations, which accounted for many of the 145,700 deaths from measles that occurred in 2013, according to the World Health Organization. Such programs are extremely effective compared to current polio eradication initiatives because measles requires only one or two doses to attain what scientists consider to be lifelong immunity, Katz explained. “I wish we had begun with measles eradication because we would have achieved it by now instead of polio eradication, which 15 years after the initial goal we are still chasing,” said Katz, citing the initial goal of WHO to eradicate polio by the year 2000. When an audience member asked Katz about parents in the United States who refuse to vaccinate their children, he brought up the recent outbreak

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of measles in Disneyland as a prime example for why measles vaccines are still important. “One of the problems is that parents have not seen these diseases, so they wonder why they should worry about them...but though the disease may not be here, it can be imported [from other nations],” Katz noted. He also refuted the idea that vaccines can cause autism but acknowledged that this idea is one of the reasons for “vaccine hesitancy.”

Throughout the evening, Katz fielded a variety of other questions from students, including one about the potential use of tobacco plants to make a measles vaccine that would not have to be refrigerated. Several students said that they found Katz’s talk very engaging and inspiring. “The talk was really interesting,” said senior Kelly Tomins. “It was amazing to hear from one of the inventors of one of the most successful vaccines. It was See MEASLES on Page 5

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Applications of Mathematics to Physiology and Medicine Course Number: Math 89S.01 Instructor: Professor Michael C. Reed TTH, 10:05-11:20, Physics Building, room 205. Prerequistes: Math 112 or the equivalent, high school biology, and an interest in human physiology. Trinity Curriculum Requirements: Math 89S.01 fulfills NS, QS, R, W. This seminar, open only to freshmen, will be offered in Spring 2016. Topics include: the heart and circulation, heat and temperature regulation, oxygen uptake in the lungs, the immune system and infectious diseases, nephrons and the kidney, ovulation number in mammals, chemistry and cell metabolism, sensory neurobiology. Other topics may be substituted depending on the interests of the students enrolled. Questions? Email: reed@math.duke.edu

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Duke tops ACC in athlete graduation rates once again Adam Beyer The Chronicle Statistics released last week by the National Collegiate Athletic Association show that 98 percent of Duke’s student-athletes graduate within six years of entering the University, an increase from 97 percent last year. Duke’s rate ranks as the highest Graduation Success Rate in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Nationally, the GSR increased two points to 86 percent. The rate represents the highest ever for the NCAA and included improvements across several gender and racial minority categories. “It’s difficult to say with certainty why the rate has increased, however, the Division I members have adopted a number of academic reforms in that time period,” said Michelle Hosick, associate director of public and media relations for the NCAA. The GSR modifies the student data colleges report to the federal government by excluding data from students who leave a school in good academic standing without graduating. It is calculated from the total cohort entering college between 2005 and 2008. Duke’s Federal Graduation Rate for the 2008-2009 cohort, also released last week, is 89 percent. Hosick explained the high graduation rate was driven by several factors, including “enhanced academic criteria for incoming freshmen, strengthened progress-toward-degree requirements and the Academic Progress Rate, a real-time metric that tracks team success every term and has penalties associated with it for teams who don’t meet benchmarks.” Of Duke’s 26 varsity sports, 20 reported a perfect GSR of 100 percent: baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country and track, crew and rowing, men’s and women’s fencing, men’s golf, field hockey, men’s and women’s lacrosse, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s tennis, women’s swimming and diving and volleyball. Six programs’ rates were less than 100 percent: football at 94 percent, men’s soccer at 89 percent, men’s swimming and diving at 97 percent, wrestling at 96 percent and women’s golf at 80 percent. The NCAA measures graduation success using the GSR instead of the FGR in order to not “penalize colleges whose student-athletes transfer in good academic standing,” according to their website. The FGR, which includes student-athletes who left school early, is 56 percent for Duke men’s basketball. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill posted a GSR of 85 percent, down a point from last year, and North Carolina State University jumped two points to 83 percent. UNC men’s and women’s basketball reported an 80 percent and 85 percent GSR, respectively, and NC State men’s and women’s basketball teams reported 67 percent and 85 percent, respectively. Their football team reported a GSR of 70 percent, and UNC’s posted a 62 percent rate, the lowest in the ACC.

MEASLES from page 3 really cool to hear about how they made the vaccine, and the different challenges that our world faces when delivering the vaccine—and ways to combat these using future research.” Senior Tim Bai, president of Duke Red Cross, also expressed his appreciation for Katz sharing his experiences. “It was great that Dr. Katz came out to speak today because we don’t normally think of measles as being an issue in our world today,” Bai said. “But in these developing countries, measles still is an issue—and a lot of people still suffer from it—so anything we can do to raise awareness, anything we can do to fundraise for this cause and reduce deaths related to measles—that’s what we do, that’s part of our cause. Dr. Katz really brought that message out today.” The enthusiasm of the approximately 40 students in attendance for eradicating the disease was apparent to Katz as well. “It’s a very interesting thing to try to get you guys stirred up about measles because none of you have ever had measles and have never seen a case of measles,” he joked.

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If the Blue Devils have learned anything during the last two seasons, it is that they know Pittsburgh can score. To be exact, 106 points—58 in a barnburner at Wallace Wade Stadium in 2013 and 48 in a double-overtime thriller at home last season. When the Panthers enter Wallace Wade Stadium for a noon showdown with Duke Saturday, they will have a chip on their shoulder after dropping two straight games and will look to light up the scoreboard again to get back in the ACC Coastal Division race. With a win, Pittsburgh head coach Pat Narduzzi’s squad would spoil the last home game for one of the most successful group of Blue Devil seniors. “We’ve got to be able to focus on our responsibilities, whether it’s run first, react to pass, or pass first, react to run—then that’s what we’ve got to work on,” Duke redshirt senior defensive end Kyler Brown said. “[Pittsburgh has] really come at us the first year that we played them and last year. We’re really trying to focus on what we can do better and how we can stop them.” Stopping Pittsburgh this season has been no easy task. Although the Panthers are licking their wounds from three losses on the year, they have not dropped a game to a team currently ranked outside of the top 25. Their largest loss of the season came last week by just 12 points against now-No. 6

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Connor impression by averaging 5.3 yards per carry en route to eight touchdowns in the running game. “We’re playing a really gifted and good [Pittsburgh] team,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “[Pittsburgh] is well coached, they play really hard [and] they play really physical. They’ve got a lot of weapons on their entire team…. There is a reason they are 4-1 in the ACC.” The most prolific weapon on the team may

“I just think that sports are stupid and anyone who likes them is just a lesser person.” As funny as I find Amy Schumer, she’s flat out wrong in this moment of her hit film, “Trainwreck.” At the risk of sounding cliché, this past week it has become apparent that sports are actually more than just the final score. Saturday, about 30 African American football players at the University of Missouri went on strike to show their solidarity with the Concerned Student 1950 movement on campus. The next day, head coach Gary Pinkel demonstrated his support for his players and their actions by posting a picture of his team— with players of all races—on Twitter with the message, “The Mizzou Family stands as one. We are united. We are behind our players.” The movement formed in protest of multiple racial incidents and what members felt was a failure by the administration to act. The stance of the current players—prominent in the public eye—as well as the support given to them by the Missouri football coaching staff

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Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Pittsburgh wide reciever Tyler Boyd torched the Blue Devil defense each of the past two seasons and has emerged as one of the most dangerous all-purpose threats in the ACC.

Notre Dame, and a three-point loss to nowNo. 8 Iowa on a late field goal in the third week of the season was seconds away from a potentially different outcome. With a balanced offensive attack, it is no wonder that Pittsburgh does not have a glaring loss on its resume. The Panthers have thrown for 1,787 yards this season and added 1,530 more on the ground. Redshirt junior quarterback Nate Peterman has remained consistent by tossing 11 touchdowns and just four picks, and redshirt freshman running back Qadree Ollison has done his best James

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With rule changes in place, what’s next for the ACC? Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle Clemson may sit atop the most recent edition of the College Football Playoff rankings, but mid-November brings a new sense of excitement in the ACC— the start of basketball season. Three of the league’s teams begin the season ranked inside the top six, a year after the ACC advanced three teams to the Elite Eight. Coaches at last month’s media day in Charlotte, N.C., said this year’s league could be the most competitive in history. But ACC Commissioner John Swofford wants more done to generate enthusiasm nationwide. “I’d love to see more excitement and buzz given to the start of college basketball like we see in so many other sports,” Swofford said during a commissioner’s forum at media day Oct. 28. “The ending [March Madness] is

climactic, as we all know. The beginning, not so much. Is there a better way to celebrate the opening of the season in college basketball?” Swofford noted that the ACC, as one of the top basketball conferences in the country, can play a role in leading discussions with its fellow NCAA members to pursue alterations to the college game. One idea that has been batted around is having every team open the season on the same day, creating the Opening Day and Week 1 model currently used to great success by Major League Baseball and the National Football League. Currently, teams play their first game throughout the course of this weekend, occasionally at odd times to accommodate ESPN’s tip-off marathon. By focusing attention on college basketball for a single day, the thinking goes, the sport could carve See ACC on Page 7

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COLUMN from page 6 and athletic department helped address the demands of Concerned Student 1950 and Missouri graduate student Jonathan L. Butler’s related hunger strike. University president Tim Wolfe resigned Monday. At the professional level, largescale social issues are still prevalent. Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce publicly expressed his disgust that Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy was allowed to play in the teams’ meeting this past Sunday after recent pictures of Hardy’s alleged abuse of a former girlfriend surfaced last week. But the athletes at Missouri and Kelce are not the first to champion a cause. Historically, athletes have succeeded in using their platforms to ignite social change. In 1919, Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall became the first two black NFL players, 35 years before schools were desegregated. The list of prominent historical sports figures breaking social barriers and bringing about change are endless. Just last year, several prominent NBA players—including Derrick Rose, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant—wore shirts with the phrase “I can’t breathe”— the last words spoken by Eric Garner before his death in Staten Island. Other athletes advocate for causes dear to their own hearts. Devon Still— formerly of the Cincinnati Bengals— brought awareness to and raised money

ACC from page 6 out a national day of recognition without having to compete with a meaningful college football Saturday as the season heads into the stretch run or an everpopular NFL Sunday. North Carolina head coach Roy Williams pointed to Virginia—the twotime defending regular season ACC champion—as a reason why college basketball must generate more attention throughout the regular season, not just on a hypothetical Opening Day and for the month of March. “[Virginia] was the best team in our league, and people forget that because somebody else won the ACC tournament. I always think what you do in those two-and-a-half to three months is more important than what you do in three days or four days or five days or six now,” Williams said at media day. “I wish the regular season meant even more. I wish the regular-season winner got the automatic bye [to the NCAA tournament].” Swofford cast doubt on another idea that would condense the season into just the spring semester, so as not to compete with college football. Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski called a potential shift to a one-semester sport “a real mistake” because of its effect on the sport’s marquee event and the academic calendar. “College basketball owns March. No sport infringes on that,” Krzyzewski said. “There’s hardly any sport that owns a month—we own March. To say that it’s going to be April Madness...why risk that?” After Louisville joined the conference last year to bring the number of members

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for pediatric cancer research in honor of his daughter, Leah, who is battling cancer. By December 2014, Still’s jersey sales had raised more than $1.25 million for research. WNBA 2015 MVP Elena Delle Donne shed light on the lives of those with special needs with a touching tribute to her sister Lizzie for The Player’s Tribune this past summer. Although the

causes they support are broad, athletes can have an immeasurable impact by speaking up and taking a stand. Such an impact has been demonstrated even on our own campus with athletes participating in the You Don’t Say? campaign—encouraging people to rid derogatory words from their vocabulary— and forming Athlete Ally, which states its

mission is to advocate “for respect for athletes, fans, coaches and staff of all identities.” Duke certainly knows about the need for dialogue, and some students are familiar with the feeling of being unsafe. Last week, freshman Jack Donahue took to the chapel steps to speak out against the person who left threats referencing his homosexuality on the wall of his dorm. The incident in Donahue’s East Campus dorm was not the only marginalization that has taken place at Duke. Thus far in 2015, a noose has been hung on the Bryan Center plaza and a Black Lives Matter flyer was defaced. Regardless of background, every individual has the right to the same freedoms and comfort on this campus. At a place like Duke—where the Cameron Crazies bleed Duke blue and are willing to sleep outside in the cold for weeks for basketball tickets—maybe sports are exactly the outlet to discuss these issues as a university. There is no easy answer to eradicating discrimination at Missouri, at Duke or in the world at large. But talking about it is a certainly a start. What else can unite people of every socioeconomic status, race and gender? As entertaining and exciting as sports may be, that does not inherently make them shallow. In fact, a passion that unites so many may just be the perfect spark for dialogue. Athlete Ally and You Don’t Say? may just be the tip of the iceberg. So, Amy, liking sports may make you a better person after all.

to 15, the ACC will also have to take a look at the way it develops its league schedule. With an 18-game schedule, each team only plays four repeat opponents, creating an unbalanced schedule. Historically, the league has preserved Duke’s home-andhome series with North Carolina and Wake Forest twice, but a shake-up to formatting— either randomizing repeat opponents or increasing the number of total conference games—could change that. As a member of the Big East, Notre Dame underwent some of those changes as the conference transformed into a league that got 11 NCAA tournament bids in 2011. “I think there’s some strategy to how you set up your regular-season league schedule, which is under discussion. Do we still keep our permanent repeat opponents? Does that change? Is that flexible every year? That’s what happened in the Big East. I think that had a big hand in us getting 50 percent of our league in [to the tournament] regularly,” Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey said. “There’s a strategy to how you set up…. It’s not just like, ‘Hey, we’ve got better teams, so we’re going to get eight in.’” Not all the issues at hand for the ACC—and the NCAA overall—revolve around schedules. College basketball instituted 31 rule changes during the offseason, but Swofford and Krzyzewski have talked about going even further, such as reducing the new 30-second shot clock to the NBA-regulation 24. “Should we consider the quarter system? Should we consider advancing the ball to the front court when a team takes a timeout in the last two minutes of the game? Is there merit to moving to

six fouls before a player is disqualified?” Swofford said. The commissioner also advocated for a new NCAA model regarding entry into the NBA draft that adheres to the same system in place with the MLB. Under those rules, a player can either turn pro right after high school or head to college with the requirement that he must then remain in college for three years. College football players are also only eligible to leave for the NFL after three years. Such a model for college basketball would require extensive conversations between the NCAA, NBA

and other impacted parties, after the NBA barred high school players from entering the draft back in 2005. None of these changes will be made during the upcoming season, but the table is set for future conversations, and the ACC will have a place at that table. “The ACC should play the role of a leader in the game. I’m not saying the only leader—that’d be disrespectful to the Big Ten and all the other conferences,” Krzyzewski said. “We’ve had a great tradition in our conference and we should be a care-taker for the game, a guardian of the game.”

Special to The Chronicle The You Don’t Say? Campaign, which included women’s basketball junior Oderah Chidom, is an example of how sports can be used as a platform to tackle larger societal issues—something especially relevant this week amid the football protests at the University of Missouri.

Jack White | The Chronicle Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey was among several coaches who said they would be in favor of changing the ACC’s current 18-game schedule, in which each team plays four repeat opponents.

SCOUTING from page 6 be wide receiver Tyler Boyd, who has carved up the Blue Devil defense the past two seasons. In his last trip to Durham in 2013, the current conference leader in receiving yards per game scored three touchdowns as a freshman, and caught the ball seven times for 140 yards at home in 2014. In just his junior season with Pittsburgh, Boyd has already established himself as one of the most prolific players in school history. The Clairton, Pa., native is the school’s all-time leader in career receptions with 229 and yards with 3,097—surpassing names such as Larry Fitzgerald, Antonio Bryant and Devin Street. Boyd has racked up 130.5 all-purpose yards per game this season, making contributions not only as a receiver but also as a rusher, passer and kick returner. “You can’t stop [Boyd], you can only hope to contain him,” Duke safety Jeremy Cash said. “He is a phenomenal athlete—everyone knows that—arguably the best receiver in the ACC…. We understand that, hey, we’re not going to completely stop him.” A unique threat for the Panthers is freshman safety Jordan Whitehead, who was introduced to the offensive side of the ball for the first time since high school against Notre Dame, and garnered his second ACC Rookie of the Week honor in the process. The freshman took four handoffs from the backfield, gaining a total of 27 yards and two touchdowns in the loss. On defense, Whitehead remained just as impressive. Despite pulling double-duty for Pittsburgh, the team’s leading tackler recorded a game-high 11 stops with 1.5 for

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n Monday, we discussed our campus’ dire need for leadership to step up with helpful solutions or to enact the ones we offered. On Tuesday, we sought to have a conversation with regular students, answering the common question of “What can I do?” with the usual advice about sympathy and, tantamount to that, demands that they push administrators, academic leadership and DSG representatives to be visibly proactive in their roles. Now, we turn away from our campus to the University of Missouri, Yale University and Berkeley High School in California. These places of learning have recently dealt with their own controversies of cultural appropriation, gender and racial discrimination and hate crimes. These events coincide with the string of hateful events that have plagued our campus in recent months, with the timeline stretching back years. Although the circumstances are different on each campus, the key lesson is that there is no graduating away from issues of structural discrimination by leaving Duke. The moral of the story is to constantly educate yourself. At the University of Missouri, the president and chancellor both resigned Monday following protests about repeatedly feeble administrative responses to incidents that began with racial slurs against the student body president in September and

against members of the Legion of Black Collegians, culminating in a swastika drawn with feces in a residence hall in October. Even more so than at Duke, students there were deeply frustrated by inaction and insufficient responses. That the problems and demands at Missouri are similar to those on our campus reinforces that these slurs and acts of vandalism are not “just trolls getting a reaction.” At Yale, students called for responses from leadership in a tense campus climate resulting most recently from emails sent to students about cultural insensitivity and from discrimination against students

Editorial at a party. Much like at Duke, the university has proliferated a campus climate wherein minority students feel less safe and supported than they should. As students at an institution of similar privilege, we should see that these problematic environments are simply not “just at Duke.” At Berkeley High, we actually see perpetrators of hate crimes brought to due justice. Following a lynching death threat left on a library computer, the school has moved to punish the student found responsible and immediately gave relevant evidence

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he United States is one of the few industrialized nations to view the term “socialist” as taboo. No other word is as contaminating for an opposition candidate, and that’s why so many campaigns and political pundits are quick to use it as a weapon. Whether it be Bill O’Reilly referring to the president’s policies as part of a “socialist vision for America,” Ben Carson attacking the progressive income tax code by labeling it as socialism or Ted Cruz arguing that “Obama is a disaster because he’s an unmitigated socialist,” all

hasn’t called to abolish many of the agencies that are supposedly out of control, which would sound like the anti-socialist thing to do. Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Lindsey Graham have all defended the existence of Medicare and Medicaid, advocating to increase the efficiency of the programs, rather than to destroy them. And though Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee have criticized the welfare system in this country, they have both supported efforts to reform and fix these programs. Their policy proposals are not an attempt to eliminate government intervention

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of these jabs use the taboo of the “S” word in order to tear down the opponent. Even Democrats—who would be more likely to embrace the ideology— avoid the label at all costs, because they don’t want to seem anti-American or anti-capitalist. This trend among progressives is so apparent that even the comedian Bill Maher took notice on the issue: “If a Democrat even thinks you’re calling him liberal, he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something.” It seems that Republicans spend their entire careers trying to label the enemies as socialists, and Democrats spend their entire political careers trying to avoid any association with being one. This country seems convinced that we’re a cataclysmic battle between the forces of evil big government and the forces of freedom and the free market. What our politicians fail to see is this: the United States is not longer deciding if we should have socialistic principles in our society or not. That was decided a long time ago, when we created the largest bureaucracy in the world, implemented Medicaid and Medicare, began regulating industry to a significant extent and established a financial safety net for poor citizens. We’re not in a battle between socialism and capitalism; we’re in a battle over what degree of socialism we should have in our society today. Aside from a few more radical candidates, many of the Republicans running for the presidency hold positions on issues that blatantly bolster the view that a little bit of socialism in government isn’t a bad thing. Though many have proposed reforms or resizing of large government programs, there is no doubting that the overwhelming majority of candidates have supported socialistic policies. Jeb Bush’s position on regulatory reform, for example, calls to institute a “one in, one out” system and the repealing of several environmental laws, which would reduce the cost of regulation in general. However, his campaign

in society; they are an attempt to tweak the level of government intervention that we already have and make it more effective. These politicians seem to live in a fantasy world, a world in which the ideas proposed by Democrats are a new introduction of socialism into our society. What the Republicans fail to see is that socialism has fundamentally been a part of our government since the 1960s, and both parties are just negotiating if they should expand or reduce the current level. The problem with using the “S” word in political discourse is that it immediately turns one side of the aisle into the “anti-American” group. In the United States, socialism is associated with the horrors of totalitarian regimes in decades past, so anybody branded as a socialist is associated with things our country traditionally hates. Anybody can call a liberal that word, and that person’s political leanings are immediately within the same category of Stalin, Mao and other dictators’ policies. Somehow, advocating for a larger federal government, higher taxes or more social programs can be immediately branded as something antithetical to American values. This reduces the overall quality of the public conversation, firstly because it mischaracterizes what our government is, and secondly because it transforms debate into a competition of who can say the harshest words. The United States has had socialistic principles embedded in both its liberal and conservative policies for a long time, and this trend will likely continue in the future. It’s about time we admitted it to ourselves. DPU’s Burke & Paine is a biweekly column that runs on alternate Wednesdays. Each column will feature a different writer and will cover a different topic related to political engagement. Trinity sophomore Nic Justice wrote this week’s column.

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here lies the responsibility of Duke University? How much can a university actually do? In recent weeks, hate-driven incidents have occurred on the Duke University campus: a Black Lives Matter poster was defaced publicly, and a gay freshman and the homosexual community were threatened by a message left in the privacy of a dorm. These actions were met with shock, fear and anger. Lately, students, parents and outsiders have begun to point their fingers at the

onto our campus. I am not saying that Duke University is an innocent bystander. It is the responsibility of any college to create a campus that is safe for all individuals and to root out those who threaten this safety. It is the school’s responsibility to be intolerant of intolerance and to promote progressiveness. And I am not saying that Duke has done it flawlessly; in fact, I believe that many of the recent criticisms should be heard and acted upon, swiftly and effectively.

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ur University’s burgeoning Yik Yak feed rarely fails to intrigue me: hysterical jokes, umpteen SpongeBob references and generic adages overflow. One post in particular caught my eye last week: “Don’t let success determine your happiness, but instead let your happiness determine your success.” This Yak, almost certainly a rip off from a Tumblr post or Reddit thread, mused on a fundamental question that I see many students at Duke grappling with. How does one find peace and happiness? The prototypical student walks the line between depression and

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school, claiming that Duke University isn’t providing a safe environment for groups such as these. This may or may not be true. It is unclear exactly how much Duke University has done, does and will do in order to create such an environment. Regardless, such a culture of tolerance must be created, enforced and maintained in order for Duke University to claim any credibility as a progressive institution. What is clear, however, is that Duke University is not the main culprit, though the school might be the easiest target for those who are looking for one. I think it’s fair to say that, if given the choice, college administrators wouldn’t want these despicable acts to occur on their campuses. And I believe that those who run these institutions aren’t solely invested in the image of their school; they are human beings, they aren’t soulless and they are sympathetic to the experiences of all students. So, why, then, is the reductive message from the Chronicle’s editorial board, “Do better, Duke. Do a lot better”? I agree that, in response to these grotesque acts, it is appropriate and necessary for the Duke community to seek improvement from administration. But Duke University will never be able to eradicate the occurrence of these incidents, partially because Duke is not exempt from the issues that plague the real world. Hatred, intolerance, ignorance— these woes have troubled our world since Pandora first opened her box. Duke University does not create its students. Through its admissions process, Duke invites candidates that it feels will gain from and give to the school. If there were a way to filter out the students capable of such acts, I believe that the Office of Undergraduate Admissions would already be doing so. But there isn’t. We are who we are, and we learned what we learned, years before we got to Durham. For 18 years, Duke University played no role in our lives. It was up to our parents, our respective communities and us, as individuals, to mold our identities, grow our character and learn how to function as members of society. For some of us, however, those 18 years were spent learning unprincipled attitudes that had the chance to fester long before arriving on East Campus. The thugs who committed these malicious acts were not influenced to do so by Duke University. They did not learn these attitudes here nor were there classes or organizations that encouraged or condoned such actions. The mentalities that drove these attacks were bred elsewhere and then brought

But for a parent to post on a Parents’ Facebook Group that they “really expect better from students that are of a caliber to go to Duke” is just plain wrong. Duke University isn’t a part of that equation. Look at the University of Missouri. After several incidents driven by hate, a number of students (including one who went on a hunger strike) and studentathletes (including many members of the football team) began protests aimed at forcing the president of the school to resign. On Monday, he did. With that, the University of Missouri’s governing board announced that they would take steps toward improving the racial climate on campus: improving education, creating real conversations, as well as ... well, whatever that University feels it must do to achieve a safer, healthier, more open campus culture. The protests on that campus had an end goal: to drive its President to resign. But the goal was not to end all acts of hatred. Because that university, or any university, will never be able to claim that it can prevent acts of hatred on campus. The University of Missouri cannot guarantee that the resignation of their president will end all on-campus injustices. And, observing some of the protests and hearing some of the private conversations and public statements made at this tense time at Duke University, I hear frustration at the notion that Duke University will also never be able to say the same. It is Duke University’s responsibility to listen and respond. This requires greater emphasis on educating all students on issues of race, gender, religion, culture and sexual preference, to name a few. There must be more room for healthy and productive conversations, increased measures to accommodate those whose safety is threatened and improved means of investigating hate-crimes to prevent perpetrators from getting away with acts of ignorant, despicable violence. It is the responsibility of a university to sincerely create this culture and put its best effort into maintaining it. It cannot, however, prevent incidents such as these from happening. That’s on us and on the worlds we lived in before we ever arrived at Duke University. Yet, here we are. Duke University provides us with the opportunity to create a campus culture, no matter our backgrounds, that is by no means separated from the real world. But it is one that can try to be “better.” Rather than merely protest administration, we can act with awareness and courage to build a better Duke, rather than demand one. Jackson Prince is a Trinity freshman.

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hyper-functionality regularly, a state of mind the structure of society we operate in requires. The prevalent approach to the emotional states of happiness and pleasure, or the lack thereof, speaks volumes about our culture: we bottle up pleasure and joy into our schedule, functioning with the belief that we must keep working harder and longer to achieve goals that we convince ourselves we want. A believable “theory of the universe” is needed, lest we remain players in the game of life called, in Hindu mythology, Maya or “the all consuming illusion.” If “life” as we know it is a mere set of games that you play, is receiving results and finally dying going to equate to a human experience? This setup of functioning that we follow, and the subsequent depression that comes about when one overworks, or even overthinks, is reminiscent of the problem addressed in the four Noble Truths, maxims expounded by enlightened Sidhartha. “All life is suffering,” Gautama Buddha begins. He refers to unhappiness as dukkha, whose closest English translation is unhappiness, but the actual significance of the term alludes to transient things as well, such as ephemeral happiness and impulsive desires. This dukkha also encompasses dependence on other things or people for your own happiness. Essentially, most notions that occupy disproportionate amounts of our time are central concepts of dukkha, or suffering. Buddha’s first sermon after enlightenment makes it clear that the principal chain of linkage between all kinds of dukkha is their inability to leave us satiated, or truly content. It’s an intensely fatalistic notion to begin one’s fundamental teachings with, and the Buddha proceeds to highlight where this dukkha originates. There’s a beautiful euphony among various sects of Eastern religious thought: Mahayana Buddhism, Tao, Hinduism and other geographically scattered schools of thought arrive at a harmonious belief in letting go of desires and constructs. The rest of the Four Noble Truths trace the path from an egoistic existence to an enlightened one, an enlightenment that comes about with the realization that our belief in petty notions of the self and desire are in fact a grand illusion: what the Hindu texts refer to as Maya, the divine magic that fools sentient beings into buying into the illusions of desire.

From Yik Yak to central axioms of Buddhism and Hinduism in 150 words seems like quite a jump. However, this avenue of discussion is relevant because it effectively encompasses everything. These are questions everyone has asked themselves in times of existential woe: is all worth and pleasure obtained by external desires and objects? Various Western interpreters of Eastern thought have chimed in over the past century, highlighting the vast benefits of finding the oneness of individual atman (consciousness) with the Bhraman (soul) through realization and sacrifice.

When Hippocrates, arguably one of the most valuable figures in the history of medicine, said, “the physician treats, but nature heals,” he truly meant it. Esoteric translations of these texts have revealed an immense understanding of spirituality and consciousness. When most of these ancient texts were first discovered, people interpreted them in the exoteric sense, coming to the conclusion that volumes upon volumes of these works highlighted the superstitious rituals and practices of Hindu and Buddhist sages. Be it Duke or beyond, there’s a worrying psychological pattern. It’s a worrying pattern that the Duke chapter of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has recently actively begun registering and trying to fix. It’s a great initiative, and to me, it seems like ancient texts and religious ideas can aid in helping us understand what it means and what it entails to be human. Like the timeless task of fitting and bending into shapes society lets you take, the contrarian pursuit of widening your mind and tapping into the vast reservoir of consciousness that is Brahman requires a crucial but fundamental switch in decision making. The moment one-steps out of the selfimposed, limited decision structures available, the possibilities for selfunderstanding are unfathomable. The last thing I want to come across as is preachy; I’m a student who is just finding himself lost in ancient texts and the truth that resonates within them: I believe everyone should give these timeless works a read at some point in their lives. I spoke to my grandmother on the phone last week, an occasion that now unfortunately occurs once in a blue moon. She, the owner of one of the oldest bookshops in India, automatically asked me what I’ve been reading, to which I responded hesitantly, “The Upanishads.” My grandmother responded enthusiastically, “which translation, beta?” Her interest in this stemmed from the fact that she majored in Sanskrit, the Indian language most epics was written in, in college. She ended up recommending translations of most Hindu epics, mentioning how she’d read the Upanishads recently and was awestruck by the sense of perspective it had obtained in her life. This is arguably the biggest testament to the perennial relevance of these texts. Madhav Dutt is a Trinity sophomore.

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RESPONSE from page 1 Junior Rory Eggleston said she takes issue with how the email referred to the death threat against Donahue as “defamatory language.” “It was not a defamation,” she said. “It was more than that, it was a threat.” Eggleston added that she thought it was strange that the administration did not respond more immediately and waited to send the email until late at night the following day. Sue Wasiolek, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students, explained that there is not a set process for writing emails in response to campus incidents, but that the email sent Friday involved the collaboration of the entire leadership team of student affairs. “It involved 13 different people,” she said. “That takes a little more time.” After the defacement of a Black Lives Matter flyer with racial slurs Oct. 23, an email from Vice President

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for Student Affairs Larry Moneta was also not sent to students until the following evening. In addition to the slow response, some noted the lack of administrative presence at the gathering on the Chapel steps, where approximately 250 students convened to show support for the LGBTQ community. Nelson, who gave a speech at the event urging Duke to assume a zero tolerance policy against similar acts of violence, noted that he did not see any administrators there. Zoila Airall, assistant vice president of campus life for student affairs, wrote in an email that she “saw many of my colleagues from Student Affairs out in support and a few people from the Allen Building.” Eggleston noted that she feels the administration has been evaluating incidents—including the threat against Donahue, defacement of the Black Lives Matter flyer and the discovery of a noose on the Bryan Center Plaza April 1—on a case-by-case basis. Instead, they should address the fact that these are systematic issues, she explained. “Acts like this don’t exist in a vacuum,” she said. “There’s an underlying current of thought that it’s okay

The Chronicle to say these things.” Junior Morgan Schultz also noted that she was unhappy with the administration’s handling of recent events involving discrimination on campus. “The administration seems to confine manifestations of systematic oppression to isolated incidents, when they’re not,” she said. “This goes for their response to racist, homophobic and other types of hateful behaviors.” Although specific administrative responses to incidents have been documented, the question of how much power the administration has to influence campus climate still remains. Lisa Bergene, associate dean for East Campus for Housing, Dining and Residence Life, explained that the administration does not have as much power as people might think and that change only will occur when students influence each other. “[Administration] can threaten or even dole out punishment but that won’t force people to be more open to learning about or caring about the experience of others,” she wrote in an email. “Changing the way a person thinks is usually not accomplished by policy.” Currently, the administration is responding to issues of racism and discrimination on campus by hosting training sessions, discussions and gatherings as well as supporting student groups who coordinate these events, she wrote. Bergene also noted these initiatives are not as effective as members of the campus community changing their own behavior and expectations. “The bigger impact will come when students choose to influence their peers and challenge their way of thinking,” she wrote. Airall said the University needs to implement a multipronged approach that would include raising awareness of these issues during first-year orientation and providing cultural competency and social justice training as well as implicit bias training for all faculty and staff. Nelson noted that a united effort between students and university figures would be beneficial, and that efforts to improve campus inclusivity from the administration and students may not have to be separate. Another form of administrative response to recent campus events was revealed Tuesday when President Richard Brodhead announced in an email to students that there will be an open forum Friday at noon in Page Auditorium with Brodhead, Provost Sally Kornbluth and Valerie Ashby, dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. “Collaboration between student leaders and the administration would really push the University forward,” Nelson said.

SAFE CAMPUS ACT from page 1 reasonings to decide whether or not to investigate. “In the meantime, the reporting and responding students may be sitting in the same classroom, living in the same dormitory, going to the same dining hall,” Kallem wrote. “Schools want to have a safe environment for all their students, including one that is free from discrimination and harassment.” Another concern about the Safe Campus Act is that students may not feel safe reporting to police or may not want police involvement, Kallen explained. He added that the Act’s requirement for the school to notify police before conducting an investigation could discourage students from reporting to the school in the first place. Freshman Rohan Rajan said the Safe Campus Act does not appear to be applicable to different situations. For example, there are more clear-cut cases—which may not require DNA evidence or other tests—and less clear-cut cases that might need thorough police investigation, he explained. Kallem, however, noted that although not everyone may agree with the bill’s implementation, the Safe Campus Act and the other bills currently in Congress represent a real federal effort to provide clearer guidelines for colleges and universities in dealing with sexual violence. “Any law that can provide clear, practical and balanced guidance as to colleges’ and universities’ responsibilities for dealing with sexual misconduct is a good thing,” Kallem wrote. As for the potential impact of the Safe Campus Act on Greek life, Clarybel Peguero, assistant dean of fraternity and sorority life, wrote in an email that students in the Greek system “are Duke students first and foremost” and would not be treated differently from any other student.