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By the numbers: Class of 2015 post-grad destinations Grace Mok The Chronicle Although Duke is known for churning out qualified pre-med students, less than 25 percent of the Class of 2015 attended graduate or professional schools, according to the Career Center senior survey. Statistics from the survey show that most Duke students successfully transition from their senior year of college to employment or graduate and professional schools. For many seniors, the search for these postgraduation opportunities occupies much of their final year. The job search typically involves either on-campus recruiting for consulting, engineering, computer science and financial service firms or networking for positions in public policy, the arts and the humanities, said William WrightSwadel, Fannie Mitchell executive director of the Career Center. “We spend a lot of time here in the Career Center helping students figure out what they want to do and then how to attack that particular market,” WrightSwadel said. Although data on the Class of 2016 will not be available until next Spring, statistics for the Class of 2015 from the annual senior survey suggest that a majority of seniors accept full-time employment or graduate school offers by the spring. Almost 70 percent of students reported that they planned on having full employment, parttime employment or self-employment after graduating. Of those students, 56.4 percent had already accepted positions by the time the survey was administered— April and May of this year. In the past four years, the five

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organizations that hired the most Duke graduates were Accenture, Duke University, Oracle, Microsoft and Teach for America. The average estimated annual salaries for graduates of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and Pratt School of Engineering for their first jobs after college were $61,895 and $71,031, respectively. Additionally, 23 percent of the Class of 2015 applied to graduate and professional

school programs. Of those students, 85.8 percent had been accepted to one or more programs by the time of the survey. The most popular graduate schools last year were Duke, Stanford University and Columbia University. Senior Devin Solanki noted that there are three categories of Duke seniors who are looking for jobs. “There are those that have a job or are set on their job. There’s another group

that has opportunities, but doesn’t know what to decide. And [there are] those now coming into the deadline really hard,” he said. Those who have already received job offers can focus on enjoying their senior year. Senior Diego Nogales, who will be working at the Royal Bank of Canada next year, said that he is fully appreciating See CAREERS on Page 5

Wannamaker, Giles next in line for renovations Samantha Neal The Chronicle

Annie Wang | The Chronicle Edens Quadrangle was recently renovated as part of a long-term plan to renovate nearly every dormitory on campus.

Recent renovations to Edens Quadrangle and Brown residence hall are only the beginning of construction projects for residence halls on campus. Wannamaker Quadrangle and Giles residence hall will undergo renovations in Summer 2016 that will update current facilities and add new amenities. These two projects are part of a string of renovations to residence halls set to occur on both East and West Campus in the next few years. Rick Johnson, associate vice president of student affairs for housing, dining and residence life, said that the plans represent an attempt by HDRL and the University to update nearly every dormitory on campus. “We want to bring housing up to the level of the academics,” Johnson said.

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“It’s both pieces of the puzzle—great academics and great facilities that support co-curricular learning.” The renovations to Giles will include improving lighting in the hallways and rooms, completely redoing the bathrooms and refurbishing and renovating the common rooms, he explained. The budget for the project is currently estimated at $3 million. Air-conditioning was added to all East Campus residence halls this past summer. “Every interior space, we’re going to redo,” Johnson said. The Wannamaker renovations will involve similar improvements to bathrooms and common areas. In addition, a unique feature to fit the needs of the residents will be included. “We look at each building and that community—Wannamaker—and ask ourselves, ‘What is something different

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that we can add to build community?’” Johnson said. Although this addition to Wannamaker has not yet been decided, the Edens renovations included a fitness center, study areas and the Bolt, a game room. The approximate budget for the Wannamaker renovations is approximately $4.5 million. Past and current residents of Wannamaker and Giles noted that these improvements will make the dorms more appealing places to live. “The renovations will add a cherry on top to Giles,” said junior Alex LaDue, who lived in Giles during his freshman year. “The bathrooms have been in need of a renovation for a long time. They weren’t very nice and the showers all had issues, were kind of old and gross and the bathroom stalls had weird saloon doors on them.” See CONSTRUCTION on Page 6

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Other med schools copying DUSDAC assesses plan Duke’s applied curriculum for adding new MOPs Vir Patel The Chronicle The Duke School of Medicine’s specialized curriculum is drawing attention from other medical schools across the country. Aspects of the medical school’s four-year curriculum, which focuses more on practical application than memorization, are being implemented by medical schools nationwide. Duke’s current curriculum—established in 1966 after a major curricular overhaul— allows students to spend a year doing research and involves a more condensed training in the basic sciences. The curriculum regularly draws upon the suggestions of more than 100 students and faculty members about the program’s content, methodology and goals, wrote Dr. Edward Buckley, vice dean for education, in an email. “Memorizing facts went out years ago,” Buckley said. “What we strive for is vocabulary, context, principles and experience. We are always looking for new ideas, and we adopt what some others have done if appropriate.”

Duke’s distinctive model is influencing medical schools throughout the country. Recent changes to the curricula of both Harvard Medical School and the Yale School of Medicine abbreviate the time students spend studying the basic sciences, thus allotting students more time to explore their medical and research interests. Dr. Nancy Andrews, dean of the Duke School of Medicine and vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that after the changes, Harvard’s curriculum now “looks a lot like Duke’s” in an article by the Harvard Crimson. Institutions like the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Stanford University School of Medicine have also decided to integrate research opportunities into their curricula like Duke does with its year devoted to research. “All schools change,” Buckley wrote. “Some faster than others. We have been leaders in this domain.” Medical students at Duke are trained See CURRICULUM on Page 6

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Sarah Kerman and Alex Griffith The Chronicle Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee discussed plans to look for new Merchants on Points vendors at its meeting Monday night. The meeting—which was split into off-campus and on-campus vendor committees—focused on expansion and developing questions that should be addressed before restaurants officially join the program. Restaurants discussed by the off-campus committee included a pizzeria, a bakery and several Latin American restaurants. “Establishing that first point of contact will be great because we can start getting vendors in relatively soon,” said sophomore Julia Medine, who led the off-campus vendors committee. Potential MOP restaurants that the committee members will reach out to over the coming weeks include Luna Rotisserie and Empanadas, Pizza Mia,

Guglhupf Bakery and Patisserie, Mexican restaurant Don Marcelo’s and Epa Chamo—a Caribbean and Venezuelan restaurant. Points that DUSDAC plans to discuss with interested restaurants include changes in pricing under the program, the range of menu items the restaurant will plan to offer to Duke students and delivery logistics. DUSDAC also talked about how to communicate with MOPs to deal with student complaints and feedback that they receive before the official review process that occurs at the end of the academic year. “We’ve had some awkward student complaints that are very serious,” Medine noted. Common complaints include long wait times for delivery from Enzo’s Pizza, TGI Friday’s and MediTerra. In addition, some students expressed dissatisfaction with the food truck schedule, which currently slots See DUSDAC on Page 5

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False robber rumors scare Pegram residents Friday Adam Beyer The Chronicle Rumors of a robber hiding in Pegram residence hall caused a storm of confusion for Pegram residents early Friday morning. According to an email sent to Pegram residents by Residence Coordinator Daniel Flowers, a young male who was not a Duke student approached his was Pegram Resident a scary Assistant Tripp Whaley, a sophomore, moment for around midnight many of the Friday morning while residents in Whaley was making rounds. The man Pegram. reportedly asked — Daniel Whaley for assistance, Flowers claiming that another man had stolen money from him and fled into Pegram behind a student. Duke University Police Department was notified at 12:24 a.m. Whaley, Flowers and a DUPD officer found the alleged robber in a stairwell and escorted him outside, where he and the man who reported the alleged incident were questioned by the police. It was later determined that no crime had occurred. “This does not discount the fact that, for a brief time, this was a scary moment for many of the residents in Pegram,” Flowers wrote in the email to the residence hall, noting that no weapons were present and no violence occurred. The man who falsely reported

Angela Liu | The Chronicle Pegram residents were concerned early Friday morning with an intruder who was falsely accused of being a robber.

being robbed was arrested for filing a false police report and “resist[ing], delay[ing], and obstruct[ing],” according to the DUPD weekly crime summary from last week that is part of the Duke Community Safety Report. Durham County Inmate Population records identify the man as 20-year old Mason Good and note that there was a $5,000 bond for resisting a police officer. The man who was falsely accused of the theft was not identified, though students described him as a “tall, black

male” and Flowers’ email noted that he had a beard. Neither man is affiliated with Duke. Freshman Henry Feng saw the man later found in the stairwell walking through the first floor hallway. He appeared dazed and lost, later attempting to exit the building from the side door— which was locked—Feng said. “All of us who were on the first floor at that time didn’t think it was a problem,” he said. “We shrugged it off because it was Parents Weekend [and] we didn’t want to

confront him if he was a parent.” Freshman Kunaal Sharma reported seeing the man while working in the third floor study room. The man walked into the room and looked around before asking Sharma for a chair. He then changed his mind and left, according to Sharma. Ten minutes after Sharma saw the man enter the room, he finished studying and encountered a group of students in the hallway talking about what had happened and mentioning that a computer was stolen—which later turned out to be an unsubstantiated rumor. He said that he did not think the man outside Pegram—who originally reported being robbed—should have been arrested. “It sounded more like they were trying to do some sort of prank or something stupid,” Sharma said. “I don’t think they meant to do any harm, but you shouldn’t lie to a police officer.” Some students felt there could be improvements to dorm safety. “I think cameras in the hallways might be a good idea but other than that I’d say we live in a pretty safe community,” Sharma said. Vice President of Administration Kyle Cavanaugh wrote in an email that the situation did not warrant a Duke Alert to the entire campus. He encouraged students to take measures to prevent future incidents from occurring. “We always want our students to be ensuring they lock their doors and to not allow access to non-students,” Cavanaugh wrote. “In addition, we want any student to contact the Duke police should they see anything out of the ordinary.”

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City Council, mayoral elections to be held Tuesday Sarah Kerman The Chronicle Voters will elect a mayor and three atlarge City Council members in Tuesday’s Durham municipal election. In the mayoral race, voters will elect either incumbent Bill Bell or newcomer James Lyons. Voters will elect three candidates out of the six running for City Council at-large seats. The candidates for the three City Council at-large seats are Ricky Hart, Jillian Johnson, Charlie Reece, Steve Schewel, Michael Shiflett and Robert Stephens. Schewel, Reece and Johnson participated in a forum on Duke’s campus Oct. 15. Johnson and Schewel both have ties to Duke. Johnson—who is the director of operations for Southern Vision Alliance, a network of organizations focused on education, LGBTQ rights and racial justice—graduated from Duke in 2003. Schewel, a current City Council member elected in 2011, graduated from Duke in 1973 and received his Ph.D. from Duke in education in 1982. Schewel is now a visiting assistant professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy in addition to his role on the City Council. The candidates come from a variety of backgrounds, including academia, business and law. Hart, a case worker for Orange County Child Care Services, is chair of the Durham Human Relations Commission. Reece, a lawyer for the pharmaceutical company Rho, Inc.,

currently serves as treasurer of the North Carolina Democratic Party. Shiflett is a retired owner of a lab company based in Durham. Stephens currently serves as director of Alumni Teacher Leadership for Teach for America North Carolina. In the mayoral race, Bell is up for reelection. If elected, this would be Bell’s eighth two-year term in office, and he has announced that—if he wins— the upcoming term would be his last as mayor. In addition to his position as Mayor, Bell serves as executive vice president and chief operating officer of UDI Community Development Corporation. His opponent, Lyons, currently works for Time Warner Cable and is the Chronicle File Photo founder of the nonprofit community Less than 4,000 voters turned out during the early voting period for Tuesday’s municipal service organization Keys for Life. election. The lack of a voting site on Duke’s campus could contribute to lower student 3,751 voters turned out during participation. the early voting period for Tuesday’s municipal election, according to the Durham County Board of Elections. The Board of Elections website notes that there are 206,336 total registered voters in Durham County as of October 28, 2015. Students with East Campus addresses can vote Tuesday from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at George Watts Montessori Magnet School off of East Campus. Patterson Recreation Center is the voting site for students living on West and Central Campuses. Some students have noted that the lack of a voting site on campus is inconvenient. Duke Student Onastasia Ebright | The Chronicle Government is currently working to secure an on-campus voting station for Jillian Johnson, Steve Schewel and Charlie Reece discussed many of the issues that will impact Tuesday’s City Council election during an on-campus forum Oct. 15. next year’s elections.

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The Chronicle Vol. Experts discuss U.S.-Russia relations 110 honored with Online Pacemaker Staff Reports The Chronicle The Chronicle won the 2015 Online Pacemaker award, the highest honor given by the Associated Collegiate Press to online college student publications. Generally known as “the college press equivalent of the Pulitzer,” the award began in 1927 and has been given to student publications annually since then. The Chronicle was one of three newspapers in its category of newspapers with school enrollments of 10,001-20,000 to win the 2015 Online Pacemaker, with the others being the Stanford Daily and The Daily Orange, Syracuse University’s student paper. College publications were judged based on the following criteria applied to content from March and April 2015— coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, leadership, design, photography and graphics. According to the judges, it was the “powerful photography alongside blanket coverage of a charged racial incident” that elevated The Chronicle to being a recipient of the award. Vol. 110 Editor-in-Chief Carleigh Stiehm and Vol. 110 News Editor Emma Baccellieri received the award on behalf of The Chronicle at the ACP/CMA Fall National College Media Convention in Austin, Texas, last weekend.

CAREERS from page 1 his last year at Duke by overloading in classes to pursue different academic interests. However, Solanki noted that students still looking for jobs or graduate school acceptances can feel stressed as those around them receive offers. “A job search can be very stressful if you don’t know where you see yourself, if you don’t know the things that make you happy,” said Danica Liu, a senior majoring in neuroscience. The job search process has changed in recent years, Wright-Swadel said. For instance, students may need to begin the job hunt earlier than their final year. “I think that the notion that a student looks for a job during senior year is a little antiquated,” he said. Nogales agreed, noting that junior year is a crucial one for students interested in finance, as they are expected to network with different companies and obtain summer internships that could eventually lead to jobs. Jonah Yousif, a senior biology major currently applying to medical school, explained that his primary application for medical school was due before the beginning of senior year. “You have to know your future earlier and earlier,” he said. “My dad turned his application in October or December, got the interview two weeks later and found out a week later whether he got in.” Although the search for post-graduate opportunities can often feel like the most important part of senior year, some students noted that their jobs should not define them. “It’s important to develop parts of yourself that are outside of your career,” Liu said. “Not all of your self-worth is placed in your career.”

DUSDAC from page 2 Gussy’s Greek food truck and Belgian Waffle Crafters— two of the most popular trucks—on Thursday instead of spreading them out to different days of the week. The committee is also working to increase student feedback. Medine said that she wants DUSDAC to have access to MOP comment cards, which it would combine in a monthly or bimonthly summary and distribute to vendors. In other business: Director of Duke Dining Robert Coffey said that breakfast equivalency for freshmen would likely move from Penn Pavilion to the Skillet in West Union once construction is completed.

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Sophomore Jennifer Dietzel, a current resident of Wannamaker, said that redoing the lighting in Wannamaker will make the common rooms more inviting and less dark and secluded. Rohini Paul, a sophomore, added that improving the common rooms will bring the Wannamaker community together more and noted that the House Council frequently utilizes the common areas. “I was considering moving next year because I’m really far from my friends, but if Wannamaker is making renovations, I might consider just staying there,” she said. The renovations in Giles and Wannamaker follow this summer’s renovations to Brown, which included improvements to the bathrooms, common room and kitchen as well as the creation of a new study room. Other recent renovations on East Campus include adding air conditioning to all dorms and improving bathrooms, bedrooms and common areas in Gilbert-Addoms in Summer 2013. Although plans have not yet been finalized, two more dorms on East Campus will likely be renovated in Summer 2017. These projects are set to continue until all dorms on East Campus have been updated, Johnson said. He explained that HDRL’s goal is to have renovated every residence hall on East Campus by Fall 2018. Similarly on West Campus, Crowell and Craven will undergo renovations after the Wannamaker project is completed. Unlike the projects on other residence halls, the renovations to Crowell and Craven will involve adding central air conditioning and sprinkler systems and will last 12-15 months, Johnson said. The project on Crowell will take place before the renovations in Craven. Johnson explained that additional planning regarding where students assigned to these quadrangles will live during the renovations has only been brainstormed. He said, however, that he hopes to keep houses together on campus during the construction.

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in the basic sciences during their first 11 months, instead of the two years allotted by many other medical programs. This allows students to more quickly gain clinical exposure in their second year, wrote fourth-year medical student Jessica Friedman in an email. “In medical school, the most rigorous instruction comes not from lectures and textbooks, but from seeing patients,” she wrote. “But it can take a while to adjust to this. You have to figure out how to supplement what you’re seeing in clinic or on the wards with reading [and coursework].” The medical school has also implemented applied learning approaches such as flipped classrooms and teambased exercises, she added. “I have not found a single professor here who believes in memorization for the sake of memorization,” Friedman wrote. “I fundamentally believe that all of them value application of knowledge.” Scholarly research—either in a lab or through the medical school’s dual-degree programs—is the focus of the third year, said Morgan Hardy, a third-year medical student. Both Hardy and Friedman enrolled in the medical school’s dual-degree Epidemiology and Public Health Study Program, which allows medical students to spend their third year earning a master’s degree in public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hardy noted that this opportunity differentiates Duke from its peer institutions. Another popular choice for third-year students is obtaining a master’s degree in business administration at the Fuqua School of Business, Hardy said. “The unique thing about Duke is that they have so many good graduate schools right here,” Hardy said. “[We] also have a really strong connection with UNC, so any programs that Duke doesn’t offer that UNC does are accessible to Duke students.” Fourth-year students tie their experiences together by exploring different aspects of medicine through unique electives, Friedman explained. Delbert Wigfall, associate dean for medical education, wrote in an email that Duke’s goal is to develop well-qualified leaders in fields like medical education, patient care and basic and biomedical research. “We have been very successful in training leaders in primary and specialty care, public policy and medical advocacy, and have remained solidly one of the top institutions in the country,” he wrote.

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Alex Serebransky The Chronicle With its season hanging in the balance, Duke made a change to its jersey. Since then, the results have been pretty in pink. Since donning pink uniforms Oct. 16, the Blue Devils have gone Louisville on a five-game winning streak to vs. not only earn their Duke way into the ACC championship, but WEDNESDAY, 7 p.m. also gain homeKoskinen Stadium field advantage in their first-round game against Louisville Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium. Although it is nice that wearing the pink jerseys has been concurrent with the team’s recent success, the jerseys themselves have a much deeper meaning. “It’s for a good cause,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “We lost one of the special members of our Duke soccer family. Micah Gaus has passed away and so it’s a representation of our thoughts to support cancer research. We have a big thought process for him and his family and we’re winning because of that.” Gaus, 10, passed away Aug. 29 after a five-year battle with cancer. He had been been one of the Duke’s most dedicated supporters and was offered a spot on the team by Kerr in 2013. Earlier this season, the Blue Devils wore jerseys with “Micah” on their backs.

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chances left and we almost have to be perfect to end the season,” Kerr said. With confidence low and hopes of postseason play getting slimmer and slimmer, Duke knew it would have to turn things around fast. However, with the change of jerseys came a change in fate, as Duke looked a completely different team in pink. In their first game in the pink jerseys, the Blue Devils throttled N.C. State 6-2 to get their first conference victory and jumpstart their campaign.

Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Now take another one. With your eyes closed, think about all the things that make you happy. Puppies, sleep, Star Wars, football, your family, etc. Let all of these wonderful objects collide within your mind. Let the feeling of petting a corgi while watching Han Solo make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs wash over your being. Did you do it? Good, good. Do you now feel better about Saturday’s loss? No? Hmm. Well….¯\_(‘‘ ; ‘‘)_/¯ That’s more or less the answer the ACC gave this past weekend when Commissioner John Swofford released the four mistakes made by the officials, and that is the exact response the Miami football team gave Sunday on Twitter. And both, according to the rules, are right. Let’s go ahead and establish something: No matter what happens from this point forward, Duke will have at least two losses on its official record. You can print a schedule off and draw a million asterisks on there, but at the end of the day, when your Sharpie and inner will have shriveled, the Blue Devils will be 6-2. And the reason for that isn’t that The Man is trying to put us down because everyone hates Duke, nor is it (entirely) because of the referees. It’s because of the following rule, pulled from the NCAA’s handbook, specifically Rule 1, article 3, paragraph B:

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Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Since donning pink jerseys Oct. 16, the Blue Devils have not lost, redefining their season and playing for something bigger than themselves.

For Duke (10-6-2, 3-4-1 in the ACC), the new jerseys and improved form came at a crucial time. After the Blue Devils were shut out 1-0 by Holy Cross—a team that holds the third-worst record in the Patriot League and ranks 120th in RPI—Oct. 13, Duke had won only one of its last nine matches and found itself in the cellar of the ACC standings. Still winless in the conference and with only five regular season games left, the pressure was on. “I think we understood that after we lost to Holy Cross, we didn’t have many

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Riggs family seeks cure with new Cognitive FX treatment Hank Tucker The Chronicle For most of Mercedes Riggs’ college career, basketball has been the least of her worries, but there is now hope that a load can be taken off her shoulders. The senior’s mother, Anita Riggs, suffered a traumatic brain injury five years ago after falling and hitting her head hard on a patch of ice. Doctors could not find a solution for Riggs’ neural problems, but they recently suggested a new breakthrough treatment called Cognitive FX. Doctors believe the treatment may help cure Riggs, so her daughter Vanessa—Mercedes’ oldest sister—launched a GoFundMe account to help pay for it. In the account’s first 11 days online, $5,867 has already been raised toward a $9,000 goal. “It’s very expensive and you have to pay cash first,” Mercedes Riggs said. “But a lot of people

so far have been very generous and it has been a blessing for all of us.” The Riggs family has been searching for ways to improve Anita Riggs’ quality of life for a long time. As a former college athlete and high school teacher and coach, Riggs had always been very active physically and cognitively. The fall changed all of that. Riggs did not feel much of an immediate impact after the injury, but she soon developed serious symptoms that have persisted ever since. According to the GoFundMe page—titled “Cognitive Therapy Treatment 4 Anita”—she has suffered from short-term memory loss, delayed response time, migraines and numbness throughout her body, among other symptoms. The trauma even forced her to leave her job. “One day she almost had a stroke while she was at work, and that’s when we realized she was not able to work See RIGGS on Page 8

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Blue Devils tabbed fifth in preseason AP Poll Staff Reports The Chronicle After finishing last season on top of the college basketball world, Duke is ranked fifth in this year’s preseason poll. North Carolina claimed the top spot in the poll, followed by No. 2 Kentucky, No. 3 Maryland and No. 4 Kansas. Last week, the Blue Devils were picked to finish third in the ACC by the preseason media poll, with the Tar Heels tabbed as the conference victors. Although the Blue Devils will have to deal with losing championship centerpieces Quinn Cook, Tyus Jones, Jahlil Okafor and Justise Winslow, they retooled this year with the top-ranked recruiting class in the nation. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski brought in a trio of five-star recruits—swingman and No. 3 overall recruit Brandon Ingram, 6-foot-10 center Chase Jeter and point guard Derryck Thornton—as well as a four-star shooting guard in Luke Kennard, who averaged nearly 40 points per game as a senior in high school.

The ACC was well represented with four teams in the top 25 and three in the top 10, as Virginia came in at No. 6 and Notre Dame earned the No. 19 spot. Miami, Louisville, N.C. State and Florida State all received votes in the first poll of the year. In addition to the four games the Blue Devils will play against ranked conference opponents—the annual home-and-home Tobacco Road Rivalry with No. 1 North Carolina as well as home contests against the Cavaliers and Fighting Irish—Duke is slated to square off against the No. 2 Wildcats, No. 15 Indiana and No. 16 Utah early in the season. The Blue Devils could also face No. 17 Wisconsin during the 2K Classic in November in a rematch of last year’s title game. Duke played its first exhibition game Friday—defeating Division II national champion Florida Southern 112-68—and hosts Livingstone in its second and final exhibition contest Wednesday night. The Blue Devils will officially kick off their title defense when they welcome Siena to Cameron Indoor Stadium Nov. 13.

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski will begin the season inside the top 10 once again as the Blue Devils open the defense of their 2015 NCAA championship.

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M. SOCCER from page 7 “I actually challenged the boys before the N.C. State game,” Kerr said. “I said ‘Let’s go out and play well and get a result, get some results for our work.’ It was a great night and a great confidence booster for our team and we just kind of ran with it from there.” Since then, Duke has rattled off wins against No. 10 Elon, Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, and Virginia Tech. The pink jerseys have not been the only change the Blue Devils have made since their resurgence. Kerr has also made a few tactical tweaks—including moving graduate student Mitch Kupstas into goal—that have paid big dividends. “It was just a hunch for me to make a change,” Kerr said. “At the time we had given away 14 goals in six games, and Wilson [Fisher] did a fine job but I was looking for a spark. I made a couple changes. I moved [senior

Zach Mathers] into a more offensive position and it seems to work.” The pink jerseys and winning streak have earned Duke the No. 8 seed in the ACC championship and a date with Louisville (6-8-3, 1-4-3) Wednesday night. The winner of the matchup will go on to play No. 1 Wake Forest Sunday. The last time the two teams met was a forgettable affair for Duke, which lost the match 5-0 in its 2014 ACC opener. Five of Duke’s current starters started that contest, and two more saw significant playing time off the bench. Although some players may be wary after suffering such a defeat, Kerr said he hopes it will act as a spark. “I sure hope it gives us incentive to give them a really good game,” he said. The Cardinals have not been enjoying the same success they had last season, winning only one game in conference play. However, that one victory did come against then-No. 21 Boston College and the Cardinals have

anymore,” Mercedes Riggs said. “We’ve tried different neurologists, we’ve tried chiropractic [work], we’ve tried a lot of different things. Nothing’s really seemed to really improve her. If she stayed [the same], that’d be saying a lot, but she really seems like she’s gotten worse.” Cognitive FX—pioneered by Dr. Alina Fong—has given Anita Riggs and her family renewed hope that something can be done to improve her condition. The treatment is a five-day personalized process that targets and corrects problems in concussion victims’ brains through functional MRIs. Approximately 300 people have undergone the treatment so far, and the data is scheduled to be submitted for peer review later this year, according to KSL.com. “It’s like a boot camp for cognitive processes,” Mercedes Riggs said. “They take an MRI before and see what parts of the brain aren’t working, then develop a personal plan for her to start getting her neurons and her brain to start working, and then take a postMRI and see where the improvements are.” hung in some close games against some of the top teams in the ACC this year— conceding a game-winning goal to both No. 18 Virginia and No. 5 North Carolina in the final eight minutes. “They have some good experienced players and a lot of those players played in our game last year,” Kerr said. “They’re solid defensively. We’re trying to figure out ways to break them down and take care of threats.” The Blue Devils know as well as any other team that every game against an ACC foe will be difficult and that they will need to bring the same confidence and level of play that they have in their last five games. One thing the Blue Devils have to their advantage: They will be wearing pink once again on Wednesday night.

The Riggs family will not have to travel far to see the leading experts in the field. Cognitive FX is headquartered in Provo, Utah, just a 20-minute drive from Mercedes’ hometown of Lindon. With the support the GoFundMe page has received so far from 55 different donors, the dream of revolutionary treatment for Riggs’ brain injury is close to becoming a reality. Mercedes Riggs has been touched by the support this campaign has received while she prepares for her final college season as a Duke captain on the other side of the country. As one of the few upperclassmen on a team that brought in a top-ranked recruiting class filled with guards, her leadership in the backcourt will be essential this season, and her commitment to the team through a difficult situation has not gone unnoticed by her coaches and teammates. “Mercedes has been absolutely great,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “The reality has been fantastic and she’s one of our captains because of her work ethic…. Talk about somebody committed to a culture— Mercedes is one of those people.”

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I mean, Duke can still win the ACC Coastal, albeit with an extremely small margin for error, but that was the case before the game, too. The Blue Devils still have to go on the road to take on a now-ranked and fairly dangerous North Carolina squad, then turn around at home and face Pittsburgh, a team that has spent time in the top 25. Asking Duke to win both of those games is reasonable, and the difficulty was going to be high whether or not it beat Miami. And if—and that’s a big if, mind you— the Blue Devils do win out, then Saturday’s game really won’t matter. Yes, their position in the polls has taken a hit, but if Duke goes on the road and beats the Tar Heels, then you can bet the Blue Devils will be back in the top 25. If they beat Pittsburgh, Virginia and Wake Forest and set themselves up a little date with Clemson or Florida State, then, technically speaking, Duke will still have a shot at a major bowl game. Even if the Tigers continue to draw and quarter every team like they have so far, Clemson will be off to the College Football Playoff and Duke will get an especially sexy bowl game. And, please, for your sake, don’t make the playoff argument. A two-loss team from the Coastal isn’t going to get into the playoff, but in all honesty, I wouldn’t expect a oneloss team from the Coastal to get in either. This isn’t the year Duke goes to the playoff and a botched call didn’t ruin it. Instead of getting the win, the Blue Devils exposed one of college football’s major flaws—its operating bylaws and adherence to a challenge system that requires referees to care more about the call on the field than getting the call right. In that case, we all won. Except Duke, which lost.

“When the referee declares that the game is ended, the score is final.” And that’s it. When Jerry Magallanes said, “The game is over,” it not only signified the end of the game, but the ending point of the thousands of complaints and think-pieces that would ensue come Sunday and Monday. It’s that statement where your argument becomes moot and begins to talk about the way something should be. But the way it is, the way the game works—as of Saturday and as of today—is that when the zebras blows the final whistle, everything is finished. That includes everything from Saturday’s game to now-distant dreams of cracking the top 15 and getting a major bowl come December and January. First of all, this is an NCAA issue, not an ACC one. So when the conference comes out and says, “Uhhh, yeah, we messed up,” that’s all you’re going to get from them. The league can’t overturn the final result of a game, so stop blowing up Swofford’s and Amy Yakola’s emails. The NCAA’s bylaws prevent such a decision, and for good reason. Could you imagine how many teams and fan bases would protest games and calls if they knew you could overturn a result? It would be terrible. Now, I know the alternative isn’t much better, but like Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said after the game and on Sunday, this is more of an issue about the men on the field and in the booth getting it wrong than it is one about what should be done to rectify the situation. Now, let’s talk about the real reason we’re here: Saturday’s loss, from a wider perspective, really doesn’t matter. Think about what you expected from the Blue Devils this year and how that controversial loss affects those expectations. sudoku_502B

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The importance of diversity in mentorship

esterday, we commented on the culture of mentorship and advising opportunities at Duke and made suggestions to improve institutionally-facilitated mentorship on campus. Today, we turn to the nature of informal peer mentorship during the undergraduate experience and hope to illuminate disparities in students’ abilities to think about opportunities for authentic growth and development during their time at Duke. Undergraduates will inevitably triage decisions about classes, choice of major, research opportunities, extracurriculars, internship experiences and broader life goals by talking with their friends and acquaintances about what they have done in the past. We believe that this second kind of mentorship that runs beneath Duke’s avenues of advising is natural and vital to the student experience. However, some undergraduates have it better than others. Following the first-year residential experience on East Campus, undergraduates are given the choice to self-select into residential and social niches which may better fit their individual lifestyles for the remainder of their college life. Given our housing model and the reality of independent housing communities, we encourage students to continue to place themselves into the arrangements that will best fit them socially but to also pay attention to with whom they surround

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’ve recently been thinking quite a bit about whether or not a Duke education really is worth the quarter-million-dollar price tag. What truly is the value of a college education? Would I be better off saving that money and doing something else with my time? Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and famous entrepreneur, wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times in 2011, “College Doesn’t Create Success,” where he argued that the economic value of a college education for most Americans was vastly lower than the escalating cost of a college degree. Thiel earned a college

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two and a half years to continue this education is even better. Then I thought about the unprecedented access to information databases and relatively easy access to get hands on experiences in research opportunities. It was pretty clear that Duke has a lot to offer. But the more I thought about it, I realized that the reason I chose Duke and the reason I came to college isn’t just for the classes or ability to get involved. I believe that my four years here are about more than all of my classes and research experiences. When I took a study break from Perkins and went on a walk with one

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degree from Stanford University, but he now promotes his fervent belief in the limitation of college through his Thiel Foundation. The foundation sponsors “Thiel Fellows” who are each provided with $100,000 to launch their own startup as long as they forgo or drop out of college. This ideology challenges the value of the traditional college education and perhaps rightly so. Many of the hailed innovators of our time like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are famous for dropping out of school to pursue their dreams. Still, college remains an integral part of the American dream, and as a tuitionpaying student who is worried about wasting the prime of my life and my parent’s resources, I couldn’t help but to reflect on what the value of my Duke education was. Of course the questioning of why I was at Duke coincided with a rough, Perkins-filled weekend. It was one of those weekends where somehow all the exams and papers lined up to create a perfect storm of frantic studying. Or maybe I was still rattled from the devastating referee call on our Saturday football game. Either way, I found myself wondering what the Duke experience was really all about. At first I thought about my classes. I’ve only been here three semesters, but I’ve learned from some really talented professors about a whole range of topics I probably wouldn’t have if I hadn’t come to Duke. I’ve learned about income and balance sheets, Neanderthals, Python programming, racial segregation in Durham’s schools and how sodium plays a crucial role in the firing of neurons. The sheer amount of information and types of material I have covered is incredible. The fact that I have

of my friends, we started chatting about what I was studying, which launched into a much more interesting conversation when we discovered a connection between what she was learning and I was learning in different classes. The truth is that the most meaningful parts of Duke probably exist outside of the classroom. We talk, discuss, dissect and fumble around the world trying to make sense of everything that is being thrown at us. Part of the academic stress is by design; by the time we graduate, many Duke students have the analytical skills to succeed in the “real world.” Part of it is that, when you put thoughtful, driven people together and give them tremendous resources, beautiful things can happen. I plan on being a little more thoughtful about how I approach my time at Duke. The truth is that talks and discussions all over this campus are just as meaningful, if not more meaningful, to our growth and development. I know that I’ll make a point of taking a workshop on web design offered at the library or going to a concert in the Duke Performance series. I’ll be less scared of falling on my face and more cognizant of the life-long relationships that Duke fosters. If you go to Duke, you’re obviously pretty serious about going to college. But keep in mind that Duke is a lot more that the obvious classes, the formal majors and minors and the structured research opportunities that get marketed to us on brochures back when we applied. Duke is the network of Blue Devils that we’re all deeply connected to. Duke is an incubator, so thrive. Shruti Rao is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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t was my freshman year at Duke when I first became aware of an incredible phenomenon: seasons. I came to campus primarily accustomed to two types of climate conditions—weather that was hot and sunny and weather that required a sweater. Anything below 60 degrees was considered too cold, and I can’t recall ever seeing a tree in my city change colors. It was the perks of being born

taking care of myself. And while I was so busy being busy, I found myself reiterating the same tired phrases I used to criticize—“Let’s get lunch sometime!” “I can’t hang out now but probably after my exam. Not this week, but definitely next week.” The amount of times I have said some form of these this past semester is both frustrating and disappointing. As someone who values relationships

Saturday stakes

t goes without saying that the ending to this Saturday’s football game was a catastrophic fumble by the men in stripes. Whether it was the downed knee, the illegal blocks or the onfield intrusions, the only call that did not make sense was the one that the referees ultimately settled on. It’s upsetting, and it’s wrong, and the ACC’s recognition of that fact hardly

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and raised in Los Angeles. So it was to my amazement that first year when, come October, I could feel the shift in temperature, see the changing leaves and get excited for my eventual first encounter with snow. As a freshman, everything was so new and consequently met with awe and unwavering enthusiasm. Three years later and I am now in the midst of my fourth and potentially last fall season (I am fairly confident San Francisco does not have real seasons either). But this autumn struck a different tone, and it was not until this past weekend that I understood why. My parents were visiting, and as we were driving around Durham, my mom remarked how beautiful it was this time of the year. She said it with the same tone of wonder I usually have, yet when I looked up from my phone to respond to her, I realized that I hadn’t even noticed. Or if I had noticed, I certainly had not taken the time to appreciate it. It may sound silly, but autumn is my favorite part about living in North Carolina, and yet it had become yet another thing I put off enjoying indefinitely. I was too busy, too stressed, too focused on seemingly pressing senior year tasks to stop for a moment and simply enjoy my surroundings. And that has been a common theme for the first half of the semester. I have never been fond of wishing time away. But I have heard it often from my peers—“Ugh, I can’t wait for it to be the weekend,” “I just need to make it to fall break,” “I really just want it to be the end of the semester.” We spend so much time rationalizing in our minds that everything will be better once “X” amount of time passes but then those time markers come and go and we are just as overwhelmed as we’ve always been. I have spent much of this semester negotiating and renegotiating with myself on how I spend my time. After this exam, once I’m done with that interview, after I have a better grasp on this week’s schedule. That is when I can pay attention to what I want to prioritize—spending meaningful time with friends, developing my passions,

so highly, I have felt like a bad friend more times than I would like to admit, unintentionally absent though still absent nonetheless. We are all so busy—though probably not as busy as we think—and at some point we have to let something fall to the wayside. As seniors, most of us also feel this intense pressure to not just live up to academic and social expectations but now professional ones as well. We are no longer just trying to navigate a summer internship but instead what feels like a determinant of our entire lives. And in a setting where it feels like everyone is competing for a limited number of jobs in consulting, banking or large tech firms, feelings of inadequacy, self-doubt and existential questioning that are already prominent on campus become even more intense. That is not to say our concerns are unfounded or we should not strive for greatness in our professional and academic spheres. But why is it that, when work piles up and stress rises, the first obligation we let go of is our obligation to ourselves? There is no shortage of news articles, blog posts and even columns just like this one lambasting the culture of busyness and preoccupation with appearing to have it all together while forging personal wellbeing. They are topics that are addressed time and time again. But as a senior, it is has hit me that my time here is limited, and that if I keep pushing things off or asking to postpone, I really will be out of time. I fear reaching the end of senior year and feeling that I wasted the time I was given—that I got a job but didn’t show enough compassion, that I excelled in my classes but not in my relationships, that I did everything I was supposed to do but not what I wanted to do. So as autumn transitions to winter, I am trying to be more mindful with my actions and deliberate in how I spend time with others and myself. That can be challenging on a campus like this, but I genuinely believe it is possible. And as a senior, as terrifying as it is, I only have a semester and a half left to try. Michelle Menchaca is a Trinity senior. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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constitutes a silver lining. It stings— and yet somehow, remarkably, that’s a really good thing. This campus doesn’t need another column to remind it that Duke football is in the midst of a renaissance. Coach Cutcliffe has built a winning program brick by brick, replete with bowl games, NFL draft picks and the sterling reputation that Duke fans pride their student athletes on. Building the culture of a “football school” has taken longer, and maybe that’s to be expected. Tailgate in all of its iterations has been a source of frustration, and students and alumni unaccustomed to a fully-fledged game day still struggle with early wakeups and kickoffs. Nonetheless, it’s getting a whole lot better, and I think this loss illustrated that. Excluding this season, plays like the one Miami pulled off happen once every hundred tries. That improbability and excitement is what makes sports spectacular, but fans of the Duke program a decade past would’ve been more likely to see that play on SportsCenter than they would’ve live. That’s not the case anymore. As far as I know, every student on this campus watched what unfolded in real time. More importantly, they watched Thomas Sirk lead the team on a gutsy, game-winning drive just seconds before. They cheered after Jela Duncan’s beastmode-esque touchdown run and howled when Max McCaffrey’s early reception was (incorrectly, I’d argue) ruled a fumble. Those students sound a whole lot like Duke football fans that expect to win, and its only because Coach Cutcliffe and all 108 players on the roster give us every reason to believe they will, time and again. That’s why losing to Miami, especially in such excruciating fashion, isn’t just painful—it’s unfair. This team is playing for an ACC crown. It’s playing for a bowl game. Hell, someday soon it could be fighting for a playoff spot. Those are measureable aspirations with coveted hardware at

the end of them. ACC losses used to dampen optimism that Duke football could become what it is today. Now they are looked at as the roadblocks to double-digit win columns and Coastal Division titles. Those expectations have fostered a deeper investment in the team, and the tangible, pervasive anger that Duke fans feel is a ringing endorsement that, yes, football matters here in Durham.

The next two games are the biggest of the season. Duke plays the only two teams ahead of it in the Coastal Division standings, and the one in first happens to reside just down the road in Chapel Hill. In many ways that showdown will determine the trajectory of the season. The stakes are high, and I expect the interest and investment of Duke fans to be the same. This game matters not as a way to validate Duke’s program or as a mere rivalry game but because this team has been building towards something since two-a-days this summer. Maybe the Miami game was an upsetting and unfair wakeup call, but the impression I’m starting to get is that students, alumni and fans alike are genuinely invested in helping our team get to where they want to go. Freshmen year, the first Duke football game I attended was against North Carolina. Jamison Crowder’s go-ahead touchdown reception with 13 seconds left gave Duke bowl eligibility for the first time since 1994. It was followed by hordes of students rushing the field to embrace a team that had earned every ounce of celebration it received. If that marked the beginning of Duke’s commitment to becoming a “football school,” then the finish of the Miami game marks an important growing pain. If the final score of a game disappoints you, then that means you’ve almost definitely got a team worth cheering for. In this instance, I don’t think there’s any room for debate. The final play from this Saturday will go down in infamy for Duke fans. Even the consistently classy Coach Cutcliffe conceded that, “There were no appropriate words for what had happened.” I think most of us feel the same way. But if anything, that loss raised the stakes for this Saturday, not mention every Saturday through the rest of the season. That anticipation wasn’t around four years ago, but it sure feels good right now. Caleb Ellis is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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November 3-9 EXHIBITIONS

Odili Donald Odita. Two large-scale murals by visiting artist and abstract painter Odili Donald Odita have been commissioned by the Nasher Museum; one is at Duke and one is in downtown Durham. Thru October 1, 2017. Nasher Museum of Art. Richard Mosse: The Enclave. Immersive 40-minute sixchannel video installation shot in eastern Congo. Thru January 10, 2016. Nasher Museum of Art. The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light. Comprehensive and dynamic reinstallation of the museum’s collection, highlighting masterworks while illustrating a history of human creativity. Thru September 18, 2016. Nasher Museum of Art. Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection. This exhibition demonstrates the museum’s ongoing commitment to collecting contemporary work by global artists, with an emphasis on artists of African descent. Thru July 10, 2016. Nasher Museum of Art.

EVENTS

November 4 Jazz @ The Mary Lou. Fill your Wednesday evenings with live jazz by local musicians, music students, and special guest artists all brought together by John Brown, Director of the Duke Jazz Studies Program. 9:30 pm, Mary Lou Williams Center. Free. November 6 Lecture Series in Musicology: Walter Everett (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor). “Two approaches to Beatles research: Plumbing the recording process and parsing a text” 4pm, Room 104, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

NOV. 6-7 Connect with distinguished alumni in the entertainment, media, and arts industries.

DEMAN weekend kicks off on Friday, with masterclasses in arts departments, and an opening reception and the duARTS Silent Auction at 6pm in Penn Pavilion on West Campus. DEMAN continues on Saturday with workshops led by alumni with careers in the arts, and wraps up with a keynote address by Duke Alum Mike Posner ‘09. More info about DEMAN events and register at DukeDeman.com. DEMAN master class with Danika Manso-Brown. Duke alum Danika Manso-Brown will teach a master class and talk-back based on her current project “Women at Werk.” 2:30pm, Ark. Free. November 7 Mike Posner ’09 to give DEMAN Keynote Address. “Music, Money, and Meaning” is the topic of singer, songwriter, producer and Duke alum Posner’s keynote address to Duke students during DEMAN. Posner started making his first mixtape while in his dorm room. Hear more about his life as a student and his career in music during DEMAN. 4-5pm, Page Auditorium. Free. More info about DEMAN events and register at DukeDeman.com. Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila. Exhibit opens featuring images by CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography winner Nadia Sablin; her new book of the same name is a co-publication of Duke University Press and CDS Books. Thru February 28, 2016. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free. November 8 Cello Master Class with Emanuel Gruber. 4pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free.

SCREEN/SOCIETY

All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Richard White Lecture Hall, East Campus. November 3 Ponyo (dir. Hayao Miyazaki) AMI Showcase—Animation series / Cine-East Series (Japan) November 4 In a Lonely Place AMI Showcase—Film Noir Series November 5 Kristi Jacobson ’93 presents her documentary, A Place at the Table AMI Showcase—Alumni Filmmaker Homecoming Series ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

This message is brought to you by the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Chapel Music, Duke Dance Program, Duke Music Department, Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts, Nasher Museum of Art, Screen/Society, Department of Theater Studies with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.