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NOT DOWN (?) AND NOT OUT Miami’s 8-lateral kickoff return erases Duke comeback

ACC suspends officials Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle The ACC has suspended the members of the on-field officiating crew and the replay officials involved in Saturday’s wild game between Duke and Miami at Wallace Wade Stadium due to numerous officiating errors committed on the game’s final play. The Hurricanes left Durham with a 3027 win after eight laterals on the game’s final play—a squib kick by Duke’s Ross Martin—produced a touchdown by Miami junior Corn Elder. In a statement, the ACC noted that “a series of errors” were made, including that a Hurricane player was down with the ball still in his hand. If this ruling on the field had been correctly reversed, the game would have ended as a 27-24 Duke victory. “The quality of our officiating program is of the highest importance to the league and its schools, and the last play of the game was not handled appropriately,” ACC Commissioner John Swofford said in the statement. “Officiating is an extraordinarily difficult job but our players, coaches, programs and fans deserve the best that can be offered. We will continue to strive to meet that standard.” The on-field officials, replay official and replay communicator will serve a twogame suspension.

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle After its miraculous kickoff return was upheld despite evidence that running back Mark Walton was down, Miami stormed the field to celebrate.

Brian Mazur The Chronicle Duke looked poised to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat—until Miami stole it back on the game’s final play. Following a Blue Devil two-point conversion to put Duke ahead 27-24, kicker Ross Martin squibbed the ensuing kickoff down to the Miami 25-yard line, where a myriad of laterals sent the ball flying around the field deep inside Hurricane territory. Eventually, punt returner Corn Elder got his hands on the ball and zoomed past the Blue Devil kickoff coverage for a return touchdown as time expired, giving the Hurricanes a 30-27 win on Halloween night at Wallace Wade Stadium. At first, the play was called back for a block in back near the Duke 25-yard line just before Elder marched into the end zone. After a lengthy review, head referee Jerry Magallanes turned on his microphone to deliver the outcome:

“After review, there was never a knee down by any of the runners of Miami. However, the block in question was from the side, not from the back. It is a legal play. Touchdown. The game is over.” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said he was confused and shocked on the sideline, and did not get any communication from officials prior to the announcement that dealt the No. 22 Blue Devils their first conference loss. “I can’t tell you what happened or what the sequence was,” he said. With the penalty changed and the touchdown good, interim head coach Larry Scott’s team erupted in celebration. Following the game, questions remained about whether or not running back Mark Walton was down before pitching the ball during the return and whether it was appropriate to pick up a flag against Miami for a block in the back. Additionally, replay footage showed at least one Hurricane player running onto the field before Elder crossed the plane, which would have been a dead-ball

penalty for 12 men on the field. Cutcliffe was preparing his defense for one last stand after the penalty—but it never occurred. “Nobody ever suggested that [the touchdown was going to count],” Cutcliffe said. “I was coaching our defense for if they tried to take a shot at the end zone.” Regardless of the questions, the outcome following the eight-minute review was clear: Miami pulled off a miracle at Wallace Wade on Halloween night. “I would like the whole play reviewed in detail,” Cutcliffe said. “I thought the guy was down and I think pictures will prove me right.” Before the last second fireworks stole the show, redshirt junior quarterback Thomas Sirk led the Blue Devils on a fierce comeback that set up the finish. After a Miami field goal extended the lead to 24-12 with 5:54 to play, the Duke offense put together a much-needed touchdown drive See FOOTBALL on Page 7

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Duke’s 3-year on-campus housing rule unique among peers Frances Beroset The Chronicle While many college students look for apartments in their sophomore year, Duke students return to their dorms. Unlike many of its peer institutions, Duke requires students to live on campus for three years before allowing them to move off campus. Administrators say that this rule creates a stronger sense of community, but students are divided about whether limiting students’ options improves or detracts from their undergraduate experience. “You come on as ’m not a freshman and East aware of Campus is kind of your gig, then you any standing move to Central or exemptions West as a secondto living on year, and you’re in a new community— campus. it’s your turn to — Joe start filling into Gonzalez your own person on Duke’s campus,” said senior Max Schreiber. “Then in your fourth year you’re starting to really learn how to live on your own. I love it because you get different tastes of life at Duke all four years.” Some students emphasized that their involvement at Duke decreased substantially in their final year. “I live off campus right now, and I only come to campus when I can get free parking, when I have class or when I need to come to the library,” said senior Rosie Williams. “Otherwise you will not find me here.” Many schools—such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill— explicitly define exceptions to on-campus requirements for married students, veterans, single parents, people who live within a close radius of the school and students over the age of 21, but Duke does not. “I’m not aware of any standing exemptions to living on campus,”

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said Joe Gonzalez, dean of residential life. “Particularly that first year, the experience is so critical of living with your class from the first day and really starting that sense of affiliation.” Some students do attempt to get around the housing requirement, he said, but these requests are rarely granted. At the eight Ivy League institutions, students are required to live on campus for an average of 1.3 years. Yale University, Brown University and Princeton University each require two years, and Harvard University, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania each require one year. Dartmouth University requires three

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semesters and Cornell University has no requirements, per these universities’ housing websites. UNC requires students to live on campus if they have not yet earned a certain threshold of credit hours. Yale in particular is known for its residential college system, in which students are assigned to a college their freshman year and remain affiliated with it throughout their undergraduate experience. The on-campus requirement helps Greek organizations encourage participation and a sense of community, said Schreiber, president of the Interfraternity Council. He noted that members of the same pledge class would

miss out on the opportunity to live together if sophomores were allowed to live off campus. Some students question the policy’s effectiveness in creating a unified cohort, in that Central Campus feels more like an off-campus experience than an oncampus one. “This on/off campus divide needs to be rethought to think about Central Campus, because East and West are very inclusive campuses, but Central is much more similar to off-campus housing,” said senior Emma Smith. “If we’re going to have this requirement for you to live on campus for three years, what is on-campus?” See HOUSING on Page 12

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Alum Macon Phillips discusses role in Obama ‘08 campaign David Wohlever The Chronicle

digital platform ideas. TC: What was your experience like at Duke? MP: One of the things that I certainly take away from my time at Duke, with the work that I do now, is how much of my time at Duke was a period of transition in terms of how technology was effecting things. When I was in high school, we used card catalogs to find books in the library, and we still had those at Perkins. We just got computers there to look up books. I remember when they rolled out WiFi to Krzyzewskiville and I thought it was magic. I thought, “This is bananas! Internet over the air? What is that?” By the time I was out of college in 2000, using the internet to communicate was becoming more of a norm, and when I went in, it certainly wasn’t. That truly helped me in my own work to understand the world before the internet and the world after. In some ways, I wish I had taken a year off before I came into college. I look back on my time at Duke and now appreciate, more than I did at the time, all of the options and the subjects I could’ve really jumped into. But instead, I think I followed the pack a little bit more, and I didn’t quite know what I cared about. And it took me until I was probably 24 to really discover something that really inspired me to the extent that I think it would have really helped me make more out of my time at Duke.

Macon Phillips, Trinity ‘00, is the coordinator of the Bureau of International Information Programs in the U.S. State Department. He became involved in President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign as the deputy director of the campaign’s new media department. He later worked as the new media director for the presidential transition team and later as the special assistant to the president and director of digital strategy. Phillips spoke with The Chronicle’s David Wohlever about his role in the State Department, his work during the campaign, his Special to The Chronicle time at Duke and how college Duke graduate Macon Phillips postponed his wedding to work on the 2008 Obama campaign— students can get involved in which he called a “once in a lifetime opportunity.” politics. kind of work. If you’re in a position to join media program?” I think what we found with TC: Could you talk about your role on a presidential campaign—and I had to social media really helped the campaign take President Obama’s 2008 campaign, and postpone my wedding to join the Obama that to epic scale, and it all came from the fact maybe share some interesting stories? campaign—first make sure you care a lot that Barack Obama, in his core, understood MP: Working on the 2008 campaign was about the person you’re supporting, or the that approach. a once in a lifetime opportunity. One of issue that you’re fighting for, not your own One of the things I think the people may the things that made it cool was exactly the career in politics. get a kick out of is when Barack Obama won thing that made it unsustainable. All of these I worked on the new media team, and we the election, he gave a speech in Grant Park, people coming together for a very intense focused on using technology to communicate, and I went to that, and we went out partying. amount of time, on a very focused outcome, to organize and fundraise. And as a result, we But I had to show up at the office the next day which was winning an election. And in that were able to catalyze thousands of supporters at 8 a.m. to launch Change.gov. So for me, TC: How did Duke help you get on the sense, I’m glad it’s over because I don’t think across the country to knock on doors and there was a lot of celebration, but the work political track? I could’ve kept it up. turn out the vote for Barack Obama. So it was continued. And then when he was taking the MP: I think I developed at Duke a But I’m really glad I did it, and that’s a truly remarkable experience. You know, one oath of office on January 20th, I was again in confidence and a set of social skills and certainly a message that I would love to of the things that I get asked a lot is, “what was an office building, making sure whitehouse. get across to anyone interested in this the secret to the success of the Obama social gov got up and implementing some of the See PHILLIPS on Page 12

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Recent study shows danger of popular nail polish brands Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Women using nail polish may be ingesting toxins, new research suggests. A recent study by Duke researchers and the Environmental Working Group—a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment—found evidence of a toxic nail polish chemical in the bodies of women who used popular nail polish brands. The researchers discovered traces of triphenyl phosphate, or TPHP—a suspected endocrine-disrupting chemical—in all of the study’s participants just 10 to 14 hours after they painted their nails. Kate Hoffman, a research scientist at the Nicholas School of the Environment, who co-authored the study, said that the study’s goal was to investigate the possibility of TPHP in personal care products. “We wanted to find out how much and the degree of human exposure through using nail polish,” she said. TPHP has been linked to changes in hormone levels including endocrine disruption, Hoffman said. In addition, previous studies in animals have found connections between the chemical and adverse developmental and reproductive problems. Hoffman explained that her study, which involved 17 Duke students, consisted of two phases. In the first, participants provided a urine sample that researchers tested for diphenyl phosphate or DPHP—which forms when the body metabolizes TPHP. The women

then painted their nails and provided another sample. After using the nail polish, Hoffman’s group found that the women’s DPHP levels were six or seven times higher than before. However, her research group was uncertain if the heightened levels were the result of participants absorbing the chemicals through their nails or breathing in the fumes of the nail polish, she said. To test this, Hoffman’s group conducted a second phase of the study in which the women wore synthetic gloves and painted fake nails attached to the gloves. She said that in this case, no higher levels of the metabolite of TPHP were found in the women’s urine afterward. Hoffman explained that the idea for the study came from previous research she had done on TPHP, which found that higher levels of TPHP in women’s bodies than men’s. “We thought it might be used in personal care products because women use more [of them] than men,” she said. The group’s research found that not only did TPHP exist in many popular nail polish brands—such as Sally Hansen and OPI—but that several polishes did not list the chemical in their ingredients. “If someone was concerned [about the presence of TPHP], it could be hard to avoid because they don’t know what’s in the nail polish that they’re applying,” she said. She noted that the presence of TPHP in nail polish is particularly concerning because of how often many women

Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle Duke researchers and the Environmental Working Group discovered traces of an endocrinedisrupting chemical in women who used popular nail polish brands.

paint their nails. In August 2014, Nails Magazine—a nail salon industry trade publication—reported that 97 percent of American girls ages 12 to 14 use nail products such as polish and that 14 percent of all teens and tweens use them daily, according to market surveys. Several Duke students found the research results disturbing. “I always kind of thought [about toxic chemicals] in nail polish remover, but I never considered it for nail polish itself,” sophomore Peyton Dilweg said.

“Now I’ll be doing a little more research examining the contents of nail polish.” Sophomore Megan Conroy said that she was always suspicious of nail polish’s chemical contents, adding she no longer plans to use it because “it’s not worth the risk.” Hoffman said, however, that she does not believe the study’s findings will significantly affect such a widespread practice. “It’s very unlikely people will stop painting their nails,” she said.

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Khloe Kim | The Chronicle The Hurricanes celebrated with their fans after dealing Duke a controversial, heart-wrenching loss Saturday night.

etched a Halloween nightmare that will linger in the memories of Duke fans for The Chronicle years to come. Miami was whistled for a school-record But in the moments following the 23 penalties for 194 yards Saturday night. play, the thread that bound everybody in But the most important Hurricane attendance together was a simple one— penalty was the one that was called, but confusion. ended up not being enforced. A flag thrown near Duke’s 25-yard A bizarre kickoff return by Miami’s line lay waiting, and just moments later Corn Elder handed Duke a gut- Wallace Wade was in pandemonium. The wrenching 30-27 loss, providing the officials whistled a Miami player for a third consecutive week involving a block in the back, appearing to keep the special teams miracle across the college Blue Devils alive for one more play. On football landscape. Trailing 24-12 with a night when Duke scored only once on just 5:49 remaining, quarterback Thomas its three red-zone possessions, one more Sirk mounted consecutive touchdown shot at surviving was all Duke could have drives and squeaked in for a two-point hoped for. conversion to put the Blue Devils up But after a replay review that spanned three, but it was all for naught after a nearly eight minutes, head official Jerry controversial eight-lateral sequence gave Magallanes announced to the stadium the Hurricanes the win. at large that no Miami player was ever “I can’t say enough about our team down and that the block in question was and its ability to come legal. Although replays charging back,” Duke showed that the block wish I could shed head coach David in question was in fact more light on what Cutcliffe said. “The legal, further reviews offense and defense happened, but no one shed light on other just battled. I had no explained to me what controversial aspects answers for our guys in happened. that ACC officials will the locker room that have to address in — David Cutcliffe coming days. expelled their gut on the field. Not much I The Blue Devils can do.” were left with not As Ross Martin’s only heartbreak, but squib kick traveled down the field, the questions about the perceived injustice Blue Devils set up a wall of defenders that occurred right before their very eyes. hoping to contain the ensuing pitch“I wish I could shed more light on and-catch and send Duke on to a battle what happened, but no one explained against North Carolina with both teams to me what happened,” Cutcliffe said. unbeaten in ACC play. Instead, Elder “There were issues in that game. There took a lateral near the 10-yard line all the were holes, all kinds of issues in that way down the left side of the field for the game that need to be addressed by the touchdown. conference. Not my job.” Several Blue Devils dropped to their Prior to tossing the ball back to a knees while the Hurricanes stormed teammate earlier in the play, Walton’s the field. A Wallace Wade Stadium that knee appeared down at the Miami 26had been jubilant just a moment earlier yard line, which would have effectively became a House of Horrors as Miami ended the game. As the play progressed,

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a Hurricane blocker also appeared to deliver a shove in the back of Duke redshirt sophomore Philip Carter at the Miami 15-yard line. When the Blue Devils look back at Saturday’s ending, they will realize chances were there to take the victory. Duke came away empty-handed after recovering a fumble on the game’s opening kickoff, and the Hurricanes were sloppy all evening, committing offsides and pass interference penalties to help Duke move downfield. Outside of the final play, the Blue Devil special teams were a sore spot all night as Martin missed a 38-yard field goal and Will Monday shanked an 11-yard punt that gave Miami prime field position and later was stuffed on a fake punt attempt in the third quarter. “It’s something good to go through,” redshirt junior safety DeVon Edwards said. “It happens and it makes you a better player. It makes you want to look at things early in the game that you did wrong that could’ve helped decide it.” As Cutcliffe continues to process the ending, the Blue Devils must realize that a matchup against the Tar Heels next weekend holds much more gravity than Saturday’s loss. Duke still controls its destiny in a crowded ACC Coastal Division race and its Tobacco Road rivalry rematch carries just as much importance for the Blue Devils, who were embarrassed 45-20 a year ago in Durham. “Disappointed is not even close to a good enough word to describe this moment,” Cutcliffe said. “But this moment will pass and we’ll transform ourselves forward.” But four of Magallanes’ words will continue to spook the Blue Devils as they prepare for the road ahead. “The game is over.”

The Duke bench reacts in stunned disbelief after official count, winning Miami the game.

After two long drives, a Thomas Sirk touchdown run gives Duke its first lead of the game with just six seconds remaining.

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Duke head coach David Cutcliffe did not get the explanation he wanted after Miami’s controversial touchdown on the last play of the game was upheld by the officials.

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Blue Devils tricked after frantic comeback FOOTBALL from page 1

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Max McCaffrey draws a pass interference flag—one of 23 Hurricane penalties— to set up the Blue Devils on their final drive.

Miami uses eight laterals to return the kickoff for a touchdown as time expires, leading to an eight-minute replay review that generates controversy.

late in the fourth quarter. Sirk completed a crucial 13-yard pass to Max McCaffrey on fourth-and-eight, setting up a Sirk to Johnell Barnes touchdown pass that brought the Blue Devils (6-2, 3-1 in the ACC) within five points with 2:40 to play. Martin attempted an onside kick on the ensuing kickoff, but Miami’s Chris Herndon recovered for the Hurricanes (5-3, 2-2) near midfield. But the Blue Devils would get one last chance. After sending the Hurricanes offense backwards following Herndon’s recovery, Duke got the ball back on its own 20-yard line with 1:50 to play and no timeouts. From there, Sirk and his receivers went to work. The Glen Saint Mary, Fla., native completed passes of 11,13 and 15 yards to Terrence Alls, McCaffrey and Braxton Deaver that set Duke up in Miami territory. Penalties hampered the Hurricanes all night—the squad committed 23 for 194 yards on the evening—and especially hurt Miami on the Blue Devils’ final drives. Hurricane defensive backs committed back-to-back pass inference infractions that pushed the offense down to the Miami 11-yard line. Inside the red zone, Sirk found Alls on a slant route to the two-yard line, and two plays later the quarterback plunged into the end zone to give Duke its first lead of the night. It lasted for six seconds. “It’s unfortunate,” Sirk said. “I’m proud of our team for fighting through four quarters. Crazy stuff happens in college football, but we can’t hang our heads. Our team fought hard. Our offense at the end showed resiliency—I’m proud of them.” The redshirt junior filled the stat sheet for the Blue Devils, accounting for 309 total yards and two touchdowns, but the performance was not enough to walk out with a win Saturday night. The game was his fourth straight without an interception.

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Duke wide receiver Johnell Barnes extended into the end zone to trim the Miami lead to 24-19 late in the fourth quarter.

Rosier finished the night 20-of-29 for 272 Miami backup quarterback Malik Rosier yards and two touchdowns, with his lone got the Hurricanes out to a hot start in place of mistakes coming in the third quarter. The starter Brad Kaaya, who did not make the trip redshirt freshman committed intentional to Durham after sustaining a concussion last grounding in his own end zone—resulting in weekend against Clemson. a safety—and threw an interception to Duke Rosier spearheaded first-half drives that freshman defensive back Jeremy McDuffie. gave Miami a 14-0 lead and then threw a key Although the loss was 19-yard touchdown pass to razy stuff happens painful for a Duke squad Stacey Coley that gave the in college football, that was riding a fourHurricanes a 21-12 fourthgame winning streak, the quarter lead. but we can’t hang our Blue Devils are still in the Coley, who was knocked heads. Our team fought hunt to get back to to the out of Miami’s last game in hard.... I’m proud of ACC championship in Durham with a concussion them. Charlotte for the second in 2013, was a reliable target for Rosier, hauling in — Thomas Sirk time in three years. Duke will face North Carolina— five passes for 87 yards and unbeaten in ACC play— the score. next weekend in a Tobacco Road showdown at “Their athleticism led to the ability for them noon in Chapel Hill in a game with high stakes to have that [final play] occur like that,” Cutcliffe in the race for the ACC Coastal Division title. said. “Their athleticism is outstanding.”

REFS from page 1 The full list of errors noted by the ACC is below: “The replay official erred in not overturning the ruling on the field that the Miami player had released the ball prior to his knee being down. If called, this would have ended the game. The on-field officials erred by failing to penalize Miami for an illegal block in the back at the Miami 16-yard line. If called, the ball would have been placed at the Miami 8-yard line and the game would have been extended for an untimed down. A block in the back foul was called at the Duke 26-yard line. After the officials conferred, which is appropriate, they correctly determined that the block was from the side, which resulted in the flag being picked up. The replay official was not involved in the decision to pick up the flag; however, the referee did not effectively manage communication and properly explain why the flag was picked up. In addition, the on-field crew failed to penalize a Miami player for leaving the bench area and entering the field prior to the end of the play. This foul would not have negated the touchdown because it would have been enforced as a dead ball foul.”

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle “The U” walked out of Durham a 30-27 victor, continuing the three-week stretch of wild endings on special teams across the college football landscape.

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Jones injures groin in Duke’s exhibition rout Jack Dolgin The Chronicle A lot of things went right Friday night for the Blue Devils, who opened exhibition play with a convincing win against the Division II national champions. But the victory may have come at a cost. Six Blue Devils reached double-figures as Duke defeated Florida Southern 11268 Friday at Cameron Indoor Stadium in its first tune-up game of the season. Freshman Derryck Thornton led all scorers with 22 points after starting the game on the bench, and Amile Jefferson turned in a double-double of 13 points, 12 rebounds and six assists to fuel a dominant low-post effort against the Moccasins. The Blue Devils received an injury scare when junior Matt Jones—who scored 15 points—suffered a groin injury in the second half and headed to the locker room for evaluation. The DeSoto, Texas, native was not available to answer questions after the game. Sophomore Grayson Allen tweaked his left ankle, but said that it was not serious. “Hopefully it’s not a bad groin pull, but something happened with [Jones’] groin,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I’m not sure what happened with Grayson, but he got banged up a little bit

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Matt Jones knocked down two early 3-pointers but suffered a groin injury in the second half of the Blue Devils’ exhibition opener Friday.

on that fall.” After the first 2:05, the Blue Devils appeared well on their way to a rout. Jones splashed home two 3-pointers and a pair of Marshall Plumlee hook shots put the Blue Devils up 10-0. But when the starters came out, the Moccasins caught fire from downtown and clawed their way back. Behind 3-pointers from Sheldon Zablotny,

Florida Southern fought to within 26-22, but would get no closer. “I think during the night, when we had the shaky runs, when they kind of caught up to us a little bit, we kind of took off plays [defensively],” freshman Luke Kennard said. With tempers running a bit high— Allen and Zablotny had to be separated after a bit of jawing—the Blue Devils

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M. BASKETBALL from page 8 big men combined for 27 points and 21 rebounds on 11-of-13 shooting. The Blue Devils forced the issue in the paint and were rewarded for their efforts, heading to the line time and again and converting 21-of-30 attempts. On the other end of the floor, Florida Southern attempted three free-throws all night. “The turning point was defensive stops, and then it led to offense when we got two threes back-to-back,” Ingram said. “They got a couple easy drops…. [b]ut after we locked down we kind of went into a zone a little bit, and we just took the three-point [line] away.” Another run allowed Duke to pull away before intermission. The Blue Devils finished the frame on a 7-0 run in the last 47 seconds thanks to a late Ingram lay-up to go up 64-40 at the half. Thornton stole the show for the Blue Devils in the second half. After coming off the bench to start the game, the Chatsworth, Calif., native got the starting nod to open the final frame and came alive, pouring in 13 points and shooting 3-of-4 from beyond the arc. After a shaky debut at Countdown to Craziness Oct. 17, the freshman did not commit a single turnover Friday. “Me being a little bit younger than everybody else and just being a point guard, it takes some time, but I’m starting to turn the [corner],” Thornton said. “I think the biggest difference really is building a relationship with the guys.... We did a great job tonight of pushing and just having fun out there.” Allen struggled for three points in the sudoku_502A

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s deadlines for summer internships, DukeEngage applications and registration for spring semester classes approach, students are beginning to consider all their choices in the next round of crafting their undergraduate experience—or their first round of life after graduation for our seniors. In any of these decisions, authentic mentorship from peers, upperclassmen, professors and advisors is vital to navigating the abundance of opportunities and choices we have at Duke. Today, we offer suggestions for strengthening mentorship relationships at Duke and encouraging a culture of introspection for students caught up in just getting by. Many formalized avenues of mentorship come from the University already with a variety of sources for a variety of needs. Undergraduates have access to academic deans who can help with big picture decisions and connections to departmental resources. Professors serve as great mentors in thinking about how lessons in the classroom can translate into real world applications and professions. Tutors can assist undergraduates struggling with tackling challenges in academic coursework. Residential Assistants help firstyears evaluate choices in social and residential living following life on East Campus. Beyond these few examples are the Peer Advisors, engineer mentors,

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Directors of Academic Engagement and others who serve to be resources for students. The diversity of hurdles presented to Duke students provides grounds for this range of mentors, but we do find a few gaps to be filled. A natural bridge to build would be programming between our undergraduate and graduate programs. Between Fuqua, Sanford and

Editorial our other distinguished graduate schools, we have a huge number of graduate students and professors who should be able to enter into directories or an organization to connect with similarly interested undergraduate students. Propelling students forward in this respect can give direction and broader vision to their undergraduate studies. Similarly, there is merit in setting up a mentorship system between upperclassmen who are more settled into their post-graduation plans and professionals or graduate students five or even ten years ahead of them in their field. Closer to home, undergraduate advising was changed this year when the Trinity dean model was revamped to ensure that assignment of an academic dean was maintained through all four years. We have

previously written that this move was a step forward in ensuring that undergraduates have someone who has a full knowledge of their academic development throughout their Duke career. In our view, these deans and our academic advisors are akin to a primary care center that keeps a patient history and is best suited for recommending students to specialists for exploration and consideration of more nuanced interests. In these views, we hope mentorship at Duke will center on being both fully informed of a student’s history and development but also deep in taking that student far along in where their paths may lead. A key advisor in this respect are the Directors of Academic Engagement in the Academic Advising Center. Students have overwhelmingly found their advice to be insightful, but we fear not enough students make the choice to seek out mentorship. From the classroom to extracurricular, servicelearning, internships and research experiences, students have to realize how many different aspects of Duke life they can do better in if they only reach out and ask what is out there to do. It is neither weakness nor ignorance that compels somebody to seek advising and mentorship but rather a drive for success and building a better Duke experience. The Editorial Board did not reach quorum for this editorial.

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iall.Soinabidtofurtherincrease“organizational efficiency” here at The Chronicle, we’ve decided to trial this new so-called “template” format for stories that follow a predictable model. Basically when some big event happens, all you journos will have to do is take the vague template article and delete/insert content as appropriate. Attached to give you the idea is a draft of the “Duke scandal” template—applicable to any case of hate crimes, racist parties, homophobic vandalism,

Most administrators maintained that they were optimistic thissituationcouldbeavoidedinfuture.“Itistrue—TheEvent That Sadly Did Fully Actualize (TETSDFA) did happen, decisively showing us that not all groups are safe on campus. But I believe that Duke has unique characteristics that will allow it to persevere and avoid incidents like TETSDFA from happening again. After all, this is a community of scholars. Scholars are trained to reject bad ideas. If we could just harness their brains—perhaps through some machine or

Monday Monday SATIRE, PROBABLY whatever. DO NOT SHOW THIS TO ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. If I catch any of you so much as flashing a peek of this material to your sick little grandma over in Blandsville, Idaho, or whoever the hell else you’re trying to bat eyes at, I will PERSONALLY see to it that each of your fingers is pulled from your hand and incorporated into a lovely little tiara for me to wear next Halloween. Kisses, Chron Editorial Team DUKE ADMINISTRATION, STUDENTS RESPOND TO [controversy] Campus is reeling this morning after a controversial thing was discovered or reported at wherever the controversial thing happened. Campus administrators have been quick to condemn the controversialthingthathappened.Saidoneadministrator,“Iam extremely disappointed over the thing that unfortunately now exists. The thing that unfortunately now exists is unthinkable within the context of a strong scholarly community like Duke. The individuals behind the thing that unfortunately now exists should seriously reflect on their place in the Duke community and how their actions impact others.” Other administrators have been making guarantees of action in the wake of the controversy. “Rest assured, there will be a dialogue over the Very Bad Thing. There will be a dialogue with room provided for perhaps even two or three dialogues. There will be a veritable dialogue surplus. The Dialogue Action Plan the administration is currently drawing up provides for at least 100,000 words to be spoken on the Very Bad Thing over the next three months, with provisions allowing for even more words to be spoken about it should that number be reached. The wellbeing of Duke’s students is absolutely the administration’s highest priority, and there should be no doubts that Duke will deploy as many words as necessary in order to make sure the Very Bad Thing doesn’t happen again.” [Put something here about whatever problematic email the administration sent to the student body trying to assuage the controversy.]

the like—we could feasibly create an anti-prejudice force field and project it around the university like in Harry Potter. Then we could keep out racism/sexism/homophobia/ transphobia [delete as appropriate] from Duke forever.” Student response to the controversy has been varied. [All right, so we gathered up some quotes that we’ve used before and listed them below. Just use whichever fit the campus zeitgeist. Or make them up. I really don’t care.] “I don’t know. It was bad, sure, but I think [campus advocacy group] overreacted and are being very emotional about what happened,” said [just invent a name and year]. “It’s awful. My heart goes out to their community. I can’t believe that a Dukie would do something this bad!” said [a student who has apparently never heard of Tucker Max or Richard Nixon]. “I really don’t think it’s as bad as everyone is making it out to be,” said [a frat guy, probably. Or maybe Jerry Hough?]. “I think it’s important to remember that we always need to advocate for those less privileged than us,” said [in all probability someone who conflates the term “advocacy” with what a layman might call “occasionally reposting an Upworthy article.”]. [And then maybe stick something in here about whatever offensive or unconstructive column Monday Monday inevitably writes about the controversy.] Going forwards, it’s expected that [LOL jk, you guys know the drill—incident happens, outrage follows, counteroutrage rises up against it, everyone stops speaking about it three days later and then a new incident happens. Rinse, repeat. All right, I’m gonna go ahead and write my paper on turn of the century German philosophy of science now. Remember that this draft is FOR CHRONICLE EYES ONLY, and if you contravene this confidentiality, I will personally come brick up your dorm room with old papiermâché Chronicle copies so that you die entombed by the publication you betrayed. Peace out, peasants.] Little known fact, this column has actually been written using the template format ever since Monday Monday died in a fatal game of rock-paper-scissors over Fall Break.

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Living with fear

used to fear the dark. Some nights, when I was little, I’d fall asleep reading on the couch downstairs, only to wake up a few hours later and find that night had fallen. I’d jolt awake, snap my head left and right, trying to make out the room, and take the stairs by two, not daring to look behind me for fear of what the darkness might hold. Sometimes, after watching those sensationalized late-night History Channel shows, I’d peer out the window, imagining that somewhere in the darkness of my

year, it’s easy to think you’ll never quite measure up. We will always live with fear but that does not mean we must always live in fear. Living in fear means seeing life “through a glass, darkly,” that is, through the sort of distorted lens that oddly magnifies the unimportant and casts the entire world in sullen hues. This is a paralyzing way of approaching fear. Living with fear doesn’t require us to conquer our fears once and for all, but it does ask us to reconcile with our fears, dig to the root of why we fear

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n Tuesday, we vote not for the fate of the nation but for the fate of our city. Tomorrow, we vote yet again, though I may be one of 100 students who will take the extra effort to head to the polls, but there is so much more on the line this time around. Counter to what the media would tell you [or not because honestly whatever (candidate for an election in exactly one year) said yesterday is so important], Election Day 2015 matters much more to the future of our community and Durham

through the tech industry, the demand for apartment complexes like West Village and 605 West would not exist. To afford rent in one of those buildings, one would have to make around twice the median income of the city. Similarly, there are then fewer housing options for Duke’s employees, lower income students and the great majority of Durham’s local population in the downtown district. Homeless rates in Durham are among the highest in North Carolina, especially for veterans, despite the prevalence of Section 8 housing vouchers and a large network

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backyard lurked little green men or the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It would take hours to fall asleep. I read to allow my swirling imagination to settle. One night, as I was reading “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” I came across the “boggart”: a shape-shifting creature known to hide itself in tight spaces like drawers or wardrobes. Once brought out into the open, the boggart takes the form of the observer’s worst fear. When I finished the chapter with the boggart, I set the book down and wondered what form my boggart would take. Probably the dark. A few years later, after my parents divorced, I found something new to fear: love itself. Divorce could happen to me. It was terrifying to think that I could fall in love with someone, marry her, live together for years and years, even have a child together, and then wake up one day to find I no longer loved her or she no longer loved me. I started to fear love for fear that it wouldn’t last. By ninth grade, my fears had evolved further. I was then afraid of losing my aging dad. I was afraid he would have a heart attack all alone in the little house in the country where he had moved, where cell reception was spotty and an ambulance would have to limp along a winding gravel road riddled with potholes just to make it to his door. I was afraid each winter would be the last time I’d feel his chilled rough hands gripping my warm smooth ones after a day spent outside in the cold. I was afraid he wouldn’t be around much longer to call me his “human radiator.” Now, I find myself fearing a host of things: choosing the wrong courses, receiving a disappointing midterm grade, missing out on time with friends. Compared to my old fears, these seem inconsequential. But beneath them all lurks a fear I suspect is common at Duke: the fear of failing to live a meaningful life. When you share this university with the likes of Melinda Gates and Grayson Allen, Tim Cook and Paul Modrich, not to mention the extraordinary people in your own class whose praises were so publicly sung at Convocation freshman

what we fear and embrace those fears for what they show about us. In other words, living with fear means seeing our fears “face to face.” Once you live with your fears, they don’t seem all that scary anymore, just as after a young witch or wizard performs the Riddikulus Charm, the boggart transforms from terrifying to laughable. Growing up was a series of transitions from living in fear to living with fear. I flipped the light switch on and off and gradually acclimated myself to the dark. I reconciled myself to my parents’ divorce, coming to see it as a wise decision that stopped their marriage from ruining their friendship—a decision I would have made had I been in their shoes. I told my dad about how much I worried about his health, and he now makes a point to keep me informed after each cardiologist appointment. And when I receive a disappointing midterm, I try to view it as a sign I’m being challenged, a charge to seek out extra help and study a little harder, and not a red-ink markdown on my worth as a human being. It’s also easy to fall into the trap of discounting your fears. Surely, someone else is shouldering a heavier burden; another person has greater fears than yours. This comparative thinking is emotional evasion disguised as humility, another distortion that prevents us from coming to terms with our own very real fears. Minimizing our fears does not reconcile us with them. Our fears are as much a part of us as our voices and memories and fingerprints. We can live in fear, and give our fears the power to paralyze us at any moment, or we can live with fear, and recognize what our fears tell us about our own identities. The latter course grants us agency. It also gives us empathy. When we stop minimizing our own fears, we stop minimizing others’ fears too. We don’t doubt or scoff or hector when a friend tells us he’s afraid. Instead, we listen. We learn. We lend a hand.

as a whole than last year’s exercise in democracy ever could. Sure, control of the U.S. Senate was up for grabs in 2014, but Congress’ abject lack of productivity in doing anything beyond 11-hour Benghazi Committee hearings (#HillaryIsNotImpressed) and the occasional budget deal before the government shut down pale in comparison to the significant role local city and county officials play in the lives of Durham, its citizens and us the transplants of the Bull City. My purpose today is not to attempt to convince you to vote nor to opine about the ethical necessity for democratic participation. Pretty much every other column on elections attempts to do this. It has been established: you should vote because it helps issues we care about when we vote for politicians who care about them, and city leaders have far more influence in the daily lives of their constituents than members of Congress could ever have. At play tomorrow are three at-large city council seats and the office of the mayor, each arguably as vital to the future of the city as any elected office. As much as endorsements and reading up on the candidates is vital to educated voting, what I hope to communicate today are the issues at hand in Durham and why we should want to work to solve them. The first and most pressing matter in the city is the intersection of affordable housing and poverty, both distinct issues but fundamentally linked to each other. The mayor launched a poverty initiative last year that has struggled to truly take shape, while community organizers and citizens through networks like Durham CAN (Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods) have passionately pushed for greater policy control on affordable housing in the rapidly growing downtown. At play in Durham is a rapidly growing crisis of inequality, a microcosm of the fundamental shifts in the national social and political landscape as income Matthew King is a Trinity sophomore. His inequality has drastically risen. Stagnant wages, few middle-income column runs on alternate Mondays. jobs, rampant homelessness and growth in only high-income housing downtown that only a startup employee or newage hipster could afford have driven growing gentrification as the legacy of our shared past as a tobacco town built on forced labor and the black Wall Street, a historical symbol of progress for the African-American community fade into memory. In its place has arisen fancy hotels no one can stay in, apartments only the wealthy or their children (that’s right, Duke students) can afford and that new, local, gluten-free, vegan, gastro-pub/ farmer’s market combination. www.dukechronicle.com/opinion We’re both a cause and effect of this crisis. If it weren’t for wealthy students and economic growth in the Triangle

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of service providers. Without an effective public transit system, there is little that working class, homeless and service employees like firefighters and teachers have in terms of housing choice being driven further and further away from the nexus of development in our city. The reality is that local government cannot halt all development downtown, but they should not also enable such changes that clearly do not serve in the interest of all of our citizens and instead serve only a select few through tax breaks or loop holes. According to research performed by Durham CAN’s Affordable Housing team, the city has given more than $60 million in public dollars to develop high-end housing and hotels in the downtown area. Candidates for city council have stated quite clearly that the forces of capitalism and rapid development cannot be stopped but must be curbed through policy. We are implicit in this change even if not directly accountable, but that does not mean as students and members of this community, we should fail to recognize or participate in the process to change these realities. The second broader issue that undergirds and further facilitates the crisis discussed above is one we are not unfamiliar with in our own community, namely the active legacy of American anti-black racism, a militarized and generally subpar police force and the links of gentrification and poverty to the education system. One cannot discuss poverty or housing without discussing anti-black racism in America, for they are inextricably linked. Durham County Jail, which looms over the Durham Performing Arts Center, epitomizes the presence of mass incarceration in our community. The call for better community policing contributed to driving the current police chief to resign. These problems are real, and they do not exist in vacuums. Each is crucial to solving the other, and without effective and accountable city leadership, they go unsolved and untouched. Contrary to how we think and act at Duke, we live in Durham, and our actions or, better said, inactions continue to drive the most pressing problems our city faces. Durham is growing but that growth is only happening for the upper reaches of this community, many of us included in that subset. Perhaps you feel discouraged by politics, simply care about the issues in an intellectual sense or could care less, but a battle is being fought for the soul of this city and the lives of its citizens that will largely determine this community’s future. We have a choice to make, and the voting booth can be a great place to start. Jay Sullivan is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

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Jennie Xu | The Chronicle There are several housing options within walking distance of campus with a rent of less than $1,000 per month.

HOUSING from page 2 The cost of living in an airconditioned double on East or West Campus is $4,003 per semester, or about $1,000 per month. There are currently 14 housing options with a rent of less than $1,000 per month that are within 0.5 miles of West, Central or East, according to Duke’s off-campus housing locator website. “Durham is skyrocketing with prices in regards to rent, and you have to have a car to get around,” Williams said. “I

think it will be harder as Durham progresses to find cheap options that won’t cost you a ton of gas.” Gonzalez added that having students live on campus gives administrators more opportunities to interact with students. “It makes my job wonder ful,” he said. “It gives me a wonder ful opportunity to impact the lives of our students. Knowing they’re going to be living here for three years gives me a very heavy responsibility to make sure the environment is one that truly supports their success here.”

SIGNATURE COURSES Spring 2016 POLSCI 234D / PUBPOL 233D / ICS 252D

ARE THINGS GETTING BETTER? THE QUESTION OF PROGRESS IN WORLD AFFAIRS [SS, R, W] Instructor: Joseph Grieco This course addresses an important question about world affairs: are governments and their respective societies making progress in building a more peaceful and just global order? This course will be of particular interest to students who wish to pursue an internationally oriented career in government, business, with an NGO, or in the media.

to have a career in politics. I think I had an amazing opportunity to work for a significant and inspiring president. That’s why I got emotional intelligence that allowed me involved. to work very effectively in high-intensity organizations. It took me awhile to find TC: What is your current role like? my feet coming out of college and again MC: I joined the State Department about discover what I truly was passionate about, two and a half years ago, and I manage a but once I did, I think I was able to use bureau here in Washington D.C. that focuses those social and those analytical skills to on public diplomacy, which is the State be successful in group environments. The Department’s efforts to engage audiences other thing is I continued to have a network around the world on issues and policy of friends and colleagues from Duke that priorities. Fundamentally, I think about I still to this day rely on for advice and for our work as connecting people with policy support. My Duke experience was really and really understanding that in the 21stsomething that only began in those four century influence and expertise and power years on campus but has continued to grow are increasingly diffused and networked, so and be valuable in the years since. we need to adapt how we engage foreign TC: Would you ever recommend audiences. students to take a gap semester to work on a political campaign? Is the lost time at TC: Can you give a tangible example school worth it? of what “connecting people with policy” MP: The short answer is yes. I think that looks like? college doesn’t need to be four years of MP: One of the best parts about this job continuous classes. Being able to go out into is that every country is its own puzzle and the real world, to experience organizations every country has its own relationship with as they operate and to understand the the United States and its own set of issues, world outside of campus makes you a better opportunities and shared interests. So we student when you come back. You know, kind of have to look at it as different cases you don’t have to find someone you’re around the world. One of the things that is wonderful about passionate about to get involved in politics. You can also focus on voter registration, or being an American diplomat is that we are able making sure more people participate in to call on the broad range of expertise and politics, or focus on issues you care about experience that Americans have. If we look like the environment or social justice issues. at a country that’s committed to improve air Consider taking time off to do it, but only quality or committed to promote renewable for something that you’re passionate about. energy in certain ways, for example, we might Don’t consider working in politics a bring the resources and the expertise we career choice. Those typically call on the have to that country and focus on the right wrong motivations. I think enter politics, be audiences in that country to inform them part of something because you really believe about different issues and strategies and try to in an idea or a person and then stay in it as influence the implementation of that work. long as you think that belief is still there. And not just anybody, but people who are in That’s why I’m still here in the administration a position to actually influence the outcomes after seven years. But I don’t think I’m going of the issues.

CHEM 302

HOW DOES BIOLOGY WORK? THE PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL UNDERPINNING OF BIOLOGICAL NANOMACHINES,[NS] Instructor: David Beratan This course is an introduction to biophysical chemistry and molecular biophysics. It is aimed at undergraduates in Trinity and Pratt who have had one year of introductory chemistry, physics, and calculus, and are familiar with some of the molecular foundations of biology. Our aim is to bring mathematical, physical, and molecular reasoning to bear on biological phenomena and processes. In addition to using multiple textbook resources, we will read papers from the scientific literature, will use computers programs and computer visualization, and will become expert at making order of magnitude estimates associated with biological function.

AMI 205 / DOCST 270 / POLSCI 276 / VMS 264 / PUBPOL 374

ROMST 204D / ICS 204D / ARTS&SCI 204D.

CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARY FILMS, FILMMAKERS, AND THE FULL FRAME FILM FESTIVAL ALP, CCI, STS

SOCCER POLITICS [CZ, SS, CCI, EI]

Instructor: Tom Rankin Contemporary Documentary Films introduces students to documentary film history, theory, and criticism as well as with the richness of offerings at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April. Visiting documentary filmmakers will attend class, screen their work, discuss their motivations and methods, and engage with students around both the content and the form of their work. A central premium of the course is student attendance to select screenings at Full Frame in downtown Durham with support for tickets through the Signature Course designation.

Instructor: Laurent Duboi This course explores the history of soccer and of its premier competition, the World Cup, in order to understand how and why it has become the most popular sport in the world. We will examine the development and spread of the game, the institutions that have grown up around it (such as F.I.F.A.), and the economics of the sport. We will also study the biographies of legendary players and the return to legendary World Cup games stretching from the 1930s to 2015. Throughout the course, we will focus particularly on the way in which soccer condenses, channels, and at times transforms politics. Our examples will be drawn from Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. We will read works of history, anthropology, literature, journalism, as well as memoirs and biographies, and watch several documentary and feature films as well as clips of classic games. .