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‘This campus is not yet safe for queer students’ ORI report clear: Students protest Friday following death threat, homophobic slur

Potti engaged in misconduct Abigail Xie The Chronicle More than five years after investigations into cancer researcher Dr. Anil Potti began, the Office of Research Integrity is providing some measure of closure to the widely publicized scandal. In a report published in the Federal Register Monday, the federal government’s Office of Research Integrity—which oversees scientific misconduct investigations of government-funded research—included in its findings that Potti had “engaged in research misconduct” by falsifying data sets that subsequent clinical trials were based on. As part of the ORI’s sanctions, Potti has agreed to have supervision for any NIH-funded research he conducts in the next five years. “I think the important thing about this is not so much the sanction—the

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle About 250 students gathered Friday after the discovery of a death threat against freshman Jack Donahue in East Residence Hall containing a homophobic slur.

Samantha Neal The Chronicle On Friday afternoon, approximately 250 students gathered on the Chapel steps to show support for the LGBTQ community on campus following a death threat in East Residence Hall containing a homophobic slur. Freshman Jack Donahue—a resident of the dormitory who was singled out in the graffiti—spoke at the event as well as Bernadette Brown, director of the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, and Tyler Nelson, president of Blue Devils United. The graffiti was written in sharpie on the wall of a first floor hallway and was found at approximately 3 a.m. Thursday morning. It

was removed Thursday afternoon. The speeches given Friday urged the community to consider the incident not as an isolated event, but rather as part of a systematic problem that needs to be addressed. “What happened on our elite and progressive campus was a death threat, a hate crime, an assault on the LGBTQ community and a threat to contaminate our campus,” Donahue said. Nelson urged Duke to assume a zero tolerance policy against similar acts of violence, enforce mandatory cultural competency training for all students and create a sexuality studies major. The need for cultural competency training was brought up recently following the defacement of a Black Lives Matter flyer Oct. 23 and the discovery of a

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noose on the Bryan Center Plaza April 1. In his speech, Nelson used last year’s exhibit in the Rubenstein Library, “Queering Duke History,” as an example of how the University has remembered past intolerance on campus but has yet to help rectify the situation for current LGBTQ students. “Today is a reminder that those events are not all in the past,” Nelson said. “It is a reminder that this campus is not yet safe for queer students. While this may appear to stand alone as an isolated incident, it is not.” Nelson further implored the administration to take note of this incident and not let it disappear from memory. Brown’s speech addressed the topic of allies of the LGBTQ community and See PROTEST on Page 6

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Chronicle File Photo The Office of Research Integrity has officially ruled that former Duke researcher Anil Potti “engaged in research misconduct.”

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Duke Dance Marathon eclipses $100,000 goal Saturday Shayal Vashisth The Chronicle Students on their feet for eight hours raised more than $100,000 for Duke Children’s Hospital through the Duke Dance Marathon Saturday. DDM is an annual eight-hour fundraising event to raise money for the Miracle Network Dance Marathon organization. Participants in the marathon remain on their feet through the event, although they are not always dancing. The national organization supports children’s hospitals around the country, and Duke’s fundraising goes right into Duke Children’s Hospital’s therapy programs and entertainment resources for patients. Saturday’s event, held from noon to 8 p.m. in Wilson Gym, was the culmination of a year’s worth of fundraising efforts, which collected a total $101,931.60 for the hospital. “The theory is that you’re dancing for the kids who can’t,” DDM Director Gayle Powell, a senior, said. “You’re standing for the kids who can’t.”

Groups including Duke University Improv, Pitchforks and Rhythm and Blue a capella groups and Momentum dance group performed throughout the eight hours, while vendors like Enzo’s Pizza and Domino’s Pizza provided free food. Following this year’s theme of the Olympics, there were competitions held among the student teams signed up for DDM. Each hour, DDM’s morale team taught participants part of a seven-minute line dance to a mash-up of recent music. By the end of the eight hours, teams could perform the entire dance. This year, seven families from Duke Children’s Hospital were at DDM. Children from the families, aged seven and up, told their stories on stage and explained their association with Duke Children’s Hospital. “It’s a fun and engaging day for them,” Powell said. ”[It’s] something to get their minds off the treatment they’re undergoing. It’s cool to hear their stories, and that really connects it back to the cause.” Dance marathons began in 1991 in Indiana, after the death of hemophiliac teenager Ryan White, who received a blood

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Duke Dance Marathon raised $40,000 in 2012, its first year. The annual eight-hour event has grown significantly since then.

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transfusion that gave him HIV. Students at his high school organized the first dance marathon in his memory, and the event spread through other high schools and colleges. DDM is one of the newer programs but Powell said she is pleased with the advances DDM has made in the last few years. “I’m super excited about the traction that we’ve gained this year,” Powell said. “I think we’re becoming more and more of a house name. More and more people are becoming aware of who we are and what we do and what our mission is.” For the first two years, DDM was held in the spring, but this year the event was shifted to the fall because event organizers found that spring events like Greek recruitment and basketball season made it more difficult for students to attend. In its first year, 2012, DDM raised $40,000. It rasied $80,000 last year, and this year eclipsed the $100,000-mark. Registration for DDM was $15, and Powell encouraged people to at least register, even if they could not attend. DDM also raises money throughout the year through

various fundraisers. With Duke’s undergraduate class of approximately 6,000, Powell said DDM could have easily reached its goal of $100,000 if every student donated eight dollars. “It’s just hard, people are apathetic, people are super busy, people don’t want to commit to anything,” Powell said. “Saying that it’s going to be eight hours of your Saturday is scary to some people and prevents them from being involved.” The next year of fundraising began immediately after DDM finished on Saturday. Although Powell and senior Coralie Watts, internal communications director for DDM, were happy to reach their goal this year, they also want the organization to expand until it is ingrained in the Duke culture. “We want to make sure people really know what dance marathon is,” Watts said. “We want to make it a tradition on this campus and make it something that year after year people look forward to and are excited to go to.” See DDM on Page 5

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle DDM Director Gayle Powell noted the challenges in getting students involved with the event—which is one of the reasons it was moved to the Fall semester this year.

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A look: Decision-making behind DukeAlerts Kathleen Egan The Chronicle Unfamiliarity with the Duke Alert decisionmaking process has caused some students to be concerned about the lack of alerts following recent incidents on and near campus. Duke Alerts—which are sent out by the Duke University Police Department to notify the Duke community about emergencies on campus—include text messages, email, social media and sirens, as well as posts on DUPD’s website. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, explained that the Duke Alert system is utilized in the event of potential risks to the Duke community such as crimes and severe weather warnings. “Timely warnings are required for reports of defined crimes, in specific locations, which pose an ongoing risk,” Schoenfeld, who responded on behalf of DUPD Chief of Police John Dailey and Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh, wrote in an email. “The decision to send a timely warning is made by a team of university leaders acting on the best information they have available at the time.” DUPD assesses each incident on a case-bycase basis to determine whether an immediate alert to the Duke community is necessary, he explained. He noted that a team is on call at all hours of the day, 365 days a year, to issue an alert if needed, though he did not disclose who made up the team. Duke Alerts are issued only for incidents on Duke’s campus, and the Duke community is generally not notified of crimes occurring at neighboring universities or in the Durham area, such as the shooting and brief lockdown at

Although many students agree that Duke Alerts are beneficial to the Duke community, some argued that there should be more Duke Alerts regarding potential threats near but not on am curious, campus. though, why “Duke Alerts we didn’t get a are important for students because DukeAlert about otherwise it the intruder in would be hard for Pegram. That us to know when would have been crimes happen on campus, and really important it’s important for for freshmen to be us to be alert,” junior Nora aware of. Ghanem said. “I am curious, — Nora though, why we Ghanem didn’t get a Duke Alert about the intruder in Pegram [Oct. 30]. That would have been really important for freshmen to be aware of.” Schoenfeld noted that no Duke Alert was sent because the incident, initially thought to be a robbery, was deemed a false report by Duke Police. Junior Katie Loftus said it was strange that Duke students did not get an alert about the shooter at NC Central and that they should be getting more alerts for occurrences on and around campus. Despite student concerns, DUPD has received positive responses to the Duke Alert system. “Through tests and regular feedback, the Duke Alerts have been found to be highly effective and appreciated,” Schoenfeld wrote.

Angela Liu | The Chronicle Some students feel that a suspected intruder hiding in Pegram residence hall should have warranted a DukeAlert.

North Carolina Central University Oct. 25, Schoenfeld explained. However, he noted that there could be exceptions if the incidents take place close to campus. The process of sending out Duke Alerts has been in place for about a decade, beginning as posts to DUPD’s website and since evolving to include other media outlets. Schoenfeld noted that after the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007, federal laws were implemented requiring universities and colleges to offer immediate ways of alerting people on campus of emergencies. Students, faculty and staff at Duke are

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HackDuke competitors design 92 projects to help others Heather Zhou The Chronicle More than 800 students from across the nation converged on the Fitzpatrick Center for HackDuke, Duke’s annual 24-hour coding competition, this past weekend. This year, HackDuke continued its emphasis on “Code for Good” and strived to expand the coding community by welcoming first-time coders. Ninetytwo projects were submitted featuring four tracks: Inequality, Energy and the Environment, Health and Wellness and Education. Company sponsors awarded prizes to many projects in addition to the winners of each of the four categories, who were able to donate their prize money to charities of their choice. There was also a special prize awarded to the winning team of first-time coders. “It’s incredible to see all the bright ideas being turned into innovative projects in just a day,” said sophomore Tara Davis, media head of HackDuke. “We are also glad to see that non-participants came to the tech workshops we offered parallel to the main competition. Even though they weren’t competing, they learned the skills and benefited from HackDuke.” The projects submitted included a wide variety of projects across each of the four tracks. In the Inequality track, one team of Duke students developed online platforms to connect donors of used items with people in need. Freshmen Bill Yu, Parker Hao, Yuxiang He and Yuansong Feng created an app called WheeShare that was one of multiple projects to win “Best Hack that Impacts the Children’s Community.”

“When I was teaching as a volunteer in Kenya last year, I remembered how every school there hoped for a basic computer lab but was unable to find used computers for years,” Hao said. “But we knew there were firms in China that have a great amount of outdated computers that they were willing to donate. So we want to build a global platform to serve as the link between them.” The app consists of two components— one called “I give,” where unwanted items can be posted for donation, and one called “I need,” where people can search and request certain items they need, Yu explained. Yu, who served as the team’s iOS developer, said he joined the group just one day before the hackathon. “I really learned a lot from this,” he said. “I thought I knew a lot about programming, but it was totally different when you are really developing a project. I think my skills improved a lot.” Another group of Duke students created a hardware project called LM-Rehab, which aims to help patients with hand disabilities do rehabilitation exercises at home. When patients open the web app, they can complete the exercises assigned by their doctors using a Leap Motion sensor. The data is analyzed using rotation transformation, and feedback is given for how well the patients completed the exercises, explained freshman Wilson Zhang, a member of the LM-Rehab team. “The most special part about HackDuke is the ‘Code for Good’ theme,” Zhang said. “Coding is not about showing off your skills. Coding should have deeper meaning— making real changes.” The “Code for Good” theme also helped attract the approximately 200 students from other universities that participated in this weekend’s competition.

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Yuxiang He | The Chronicle Teams of students from across the country gathered this weekend for the third annual HackDuke technology competition.

Juniors Ganapathy Narayan and Jagannath Srinivasan from the Georgia Institute of Technology said they chose to participate in HackDuke over three other competitions that were also happening this week. “You don’t get such cool themes as ‘Code for Good’ in other hackathons,” Srinivasan said. “Generally hackathons are open nature, but this theme can push you to solve real problems. And it’s really interesting that the prize would be donated to charities.” The team that organized HackDuke spoke about plans for next year’s hackathon

at the closing ceremony Sunday. One organizer noted that the theme might be changed in the future, as “Code for Good” could limit the scope of the projects. Representatives from the tech companies that sponsored HackDuke also spoke highly of the hackathon. “It’s amazing to see how the organizers and participants collaborate to make this happen,” said one representative from Yik Yak at the ceremony. “Some of you turn your ideas into projects, some of you got stuck. Either way it’s fine as long as you are trying things out and getting fun out of it.”

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Researchers study vocal learning using parrots Nidhila Masha The Chronicle Duke researchers have discovered that parrot brains possess a specialized structure that may be responsible for the birds’ ability to mimic humans. Erich Jarvis, associate professor of neurobiology and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Mukta Chakraborty, a post-doctoral research associate in Jarvis’ lab, are currently investigating if the structure they identified in parrots’ brains enables the birds to imitate the speech of other species. Jarvis said they hope their findings will help them discover how to repair and enhance vocal learning pathways in humans. “You know how they always say that the biggest Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons scientific discoveries come out of an accident?” Parrots have a specialized structure in the brain that lets them Chakraborty said. “Erich and I were just looking at imitate the speech of other species. some brain sections, and we said, ‘Wait a minute, this region looks like it has two separate subdivisions.’ And then we went ahead and started sampling and doing other experiments to check that what we were looking at was actually real.” Parrots are one of the only animals with vocal learning skills, or the ability to imitate sounds. Most vocal learners can only mimic the sounds produced by members of their own species, but parrots and humans are able to imitate the speech of other species. Chakraborty explained that scientists have been trying to determine what makes parrots different from other avian vocal learners—such as songbirds and hummingbirds—for the past 30 to 35 years. “[Scientists] knew there was some difference in the neural pathways, but it was still unresolved as to what exactly was that extra specialization in the brain structure of parrots that allowed them to imitate human speech,” she said. Charkraborty and Jarvis discovered that a core structure in parrot brains—a structure that controls the ability to produce learned speech—is surrounded by a second shell structure. Scientists had previously assumed that this second structure was an extension of the first, not its own distinct entity Chakraborty said the lab’s experiments have revealed that the structure is present in all parrots capable of interspecies mimicry. In addition, the structure is larger in parrots with more advanced vocal learning abilities, Jarvis said. Jarvis noted that they hope their work with parrot brains will shed light on how brain pathways develop in humans. They also aim to learn how to manipulate these pathways, repair them when they are damaged and enhance their function, he said. “Now we have a bird that has a similar brain pathway as humans, and we can manipulate its genes and see what happens,” said Jarvis. “So once we figure out how to do that in a parrot or songbird, then in the future we could try such things in humans.” The Jarvis lab is still exploring the level of similarity between parrots and humans. Researchers are currently examining the genes underlying the newly discovered shell structure to see if they are similar to the genes in human speech centers, said Chakraborty. Jarvis explained that this could allow them to determine whether parrot brains are similar to human brains on a molecular—not just a structural—level. The more similar parrot and human brains prove to be, the greater the probability that findings in parrots would be beneficial to research in humans, he said.

Special to The Chronicle Erich Jarvis, associate professor of neurobiology, hopes to use his study of parrots to provide information about vocal learning in humans.

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DDM from page 2 Watts said DDM’s executive board tried to focus on getting freshman onboard this year, instead of focusing on Greek life like they had in previous years. This year, DDM contacted resident assistants and resident coordinators on East Campus to set up dorm teams to involve freshman, especially since much of the morale team is comprised of freshman. Freshman Shom Tiwari said he raised $80 for DDM and supported the goal of the event. “DDM is a great example of students coming together to support an important cause in a fun way,” Tiwari said. Ultimately, Powell and Watts hope to someday have full student body participation in DDM so they can raise more and more for Duke Children’s Hospital. For now, Powell is satisfied that DDM organizers have put together an energetic, positive event. “The expectations that I have of myself and my team, we fulfilled and exceeded,” she said. “Hopefully Duke students will rise to the occasion.”

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PROTEST from page 1 suggested constructive ways to continue the conversation without belittling others. “I don’t even know why we have a label for allies. We just want you to do the right thing,” Brown said. Donahue said in his speech that the perpetrator is unimportant and later added that he believes it is unlikely this person will be caught. He also called out anonymous users who posted on the social media outlet Yik Yak for being indifferent, encouraging all bystanders to take action. “To those idly standing by, what you are doing is as hurtful to me and my people as anything that any bigot can scrawl on my wall or even nail to my back,” Donahue said. Although the issue has gained traction on social media and though local media affiliates attended the event, Donahue explained that he believes that the attention is misplaced and that passive support is insufficient. “The fact that an event of hate has to be what has to bring a community together is saddening,” he said. Some members of the LGBTQ community said they

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felt unsafe on campus following the graffiti. Freshman Quinn Baker, who identifies as non-binary, decided to sleep off-campus Thursday night in the wake of the incident. “This has actually been a fear of mine since the first week of school that I was going to come back and there was going to be hate speech and slurs scrawled on my wall,” Baker said. “I convinced myself that couldn’t happen on my campus. It’s happened now, and I’m angry.” Despite the circumstances tied to the event, some students noted that public awareness represents important progress. “It’s important that this stuff is happening because it shows us that we still have to do work, and we can’t just celebrate Coming Out Day and give out shirts,” senior Andrew Jacobs said. Senior Zack Fowler noted that since his freshman year, the CSGD has become more prominent on campus— especially after moving to the top level of the Bryan Center—but added that there are still strides to be made. “Instances like this are a sign that we’re not there yet,” Fowler said.

POTTI from page 1 important thing is the finding. This now makes it clear that there was fraud involved,” said Ivan Oransky, cofounder of Retraction Watch, a website which tracks research misconduct and which first reported the news. “Although some people have speculated…until now we never used the word ‘fraud’ when it came to Anil Potti because the investigation was not complete and no one had officially ruled. But now the feds have ruled—there was misconduct.” In May, the University agreed to a confidential settlement for lawsuits brought by families of patients who were involved in Potti’s clinical trials. The ORI’s report, however, marks the first official conclusion that Potti did indeed engage in the research misconduct which he has been accused of since 2010. Potti’s research involved using genomics to predict cancer patients’ responses to drugs and to personalized cancer therapies. According to the report, Potti stated in a grant application to the National Cancer Institute that six out of 33 patients in his tests responded positively to a cancer drug, when only four patients were enrolled in the trial and none showed a response to the drug. Another example of misconduct was his falsification of data sets to improve how accurate certain predictors of treatment responses seemed to be. As a result, nine papers from various journals authored by Potti have been retracted over the past five years. “We are pleased with the finding of research misconduct by the federal Office of Research Integrity related to work done by Dr. Potti,” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, wrote in an email Sunday. “We trust this will serve to fully absolve the clinicians and researchers who were unwittingly associated with his actions, and bring closure to others who were affected.” Potti entered into a “voluntary settlement agreement,” meaning he neither admitted nor denied that he had committed scientific fraud. This is “not an admission of liability” on his part, the report stated. Oransky compared this agreement to a plea bargain that would happen under a criminal case. “A lot of people are puzzled as to why people get off with such light sanctions,” Oransky said. “The answer is… if you have a vigorous defense, which everyone is entitled to in a criminal case, not every sentence is as severe and that’s because we have due process, plus the fact that the ORI has no criminal power.” As part of the voluntary agreement, Potti has accepted sanctions from the ORI, which stipulate that if he receives funding from the U.S. Public Health Service—including the NIH—within the next five years, his research must be supervised. This supervision plan must also be approved by the ORI beforehand. The report stated, however, that Potti “has no intention of applying for or engaging in PHS-supported research or otherwise working with PHS.” Oransky noted that Potti has not been conducting government-funded research since investigations started in 2010 and he resigned from his position at Duke. “The sanction—it’s a bit empty because it doesn’t seem likely that he’s ever going to do research again. At the same time, it is some sanction and it puts something on the [Federal] Register,” Oransky said. “Within the range of options it’s on the light side—but it is actually a sanction, as opposed to most people who commit misconduct who don’t get any sanctions.” The lawsuits against the University and Potti were settled earlier this year, and the ORI’s report wraps up official investigations into Potti’s scientific misconduct. Once the researcher accepts sanctions, it is considered “case closed,” Oranksy noted. Questions do remain on how the University mishandled the Potti case, and whether administrators ignored a whistleblower in 2008. “I don’t think they can ever do enough soul searching about why they allowed this to continue even though they were warned about this,” Oranksy said. “But it’s less important than what Duke does going forward. What is Duke going to do next time a whistleblower comes forward? Are they going to ignore that person and quiet him?” Issues with research integrity have not been limited to Anil Potti. A string of papers by a group of Duke pulmonary researchers—one of whom was charged with embezzling more than $14,000 from the University— were recently retracted after “inconsistencies” were found in their data. “[Research integrity issues are] not something that begins or ends once this case is decided—it’s something Duke has to deal with forever,” Oranksy said.

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TAR HEELS THROTTLE DUKE

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle North Carolina quarterback Marquise Williams threw for 494 yards—404 in the first half—and accounted for five total touchdowns as the Tar Heels picked apart Duke’s defense in a 66-31 win Saturday.

Nick Martin The Chronicle CHAPEL HILL—Although tens of thousands were in attendance for Homecoming in Chapel Hill, Duke’s defense did not appear to be among them. No. 21 North Carolina blew out the Blue Devils 66-31 Saturday afternoon at Kenan Memorial Stadium. The Tar Heels cruised to their eighth straight win behind a record-shattering performance from quarterback Marquise Williams and one of the worst defensive outings the Blue Devils have had in the past three years. The win puts North Carolina in the driver’s seat for the ACC Coastal Division title, and the 66 points are the most given up by a Duke defense since surrendering 64 to Navy in 1996. “Their quarterback played exceptionally well,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “You give up explosive [plays] and a game can get away from you. And that’s exactly what happened.”

Williams had one of the best days through the air in Tar Heel history—and that was the case after just the first half. After forcing Duke (6-3, 3-2 in the ACC) to punt on its opening drive, North Carolina caught the Blue Devils off-guard on its very first play, as what initially seemed to be a dive play by the halfback turned out to be a flea flicker. Williams hit a wide-open Ryan Switzer for an 89-yard score—the fourth-longest pass in school history—to draw first blood for the Tar Heels (8-1, 5-0 in the ACC). But the bleeding was far from over for Duke. “The opening play, we just didn’t get our coverage communicated,” Cutcliffe said. “We certainly had some issues with the ball being thrown over our head one-on-one, and we can’t let that continue to happen or you won’t be in games, period.” The Blue Devils got on the board with a Ross Martin field goal on their next possession, but just as Duke seemed to be gaining some ground, the Tar Heels marched back downfield. Following a screen pass from Williams to T.J. Logan for 49 yards, North

Eric Lin | The Chronicle Sophomore running back Elijah Hood plowed ahead for 69 yards and three touchdowns to lead the ground game for the Tar Heels.

Carolina punched it in on a Williams fouryard run to push the lead to 14-3. The Tar Heels stuck to the ground game once again on their next drive, which started when Jeff Schoettmer scooped up a Joseph Ajeigbe fumble. After another big pass play—this time a 34-yard strike from Williams to Brandon Fritts—running back Elijah Hood scored on a four-yard rush to put North Carolina up, 21-3. Despite the ominous first-quarter deficit, the game still seemed within reach for Duke. The false hope continued on the next drive when redshirt junior running back Jela Duncan ripped off a 52-yard touchdown run with 12:04 remaining in the half, bursting through the line and past the linebackers to close the gap to 11. “We had an effective run game today,” Duke quarterback Thomas Sirk said. “[The] backs [were] running their hearts out. Made some things happen, and so unselfish when they’re not getting the ball. We saw a lot of three-back [sets]

there today. Guys lead-blocking for the other. [We] just have to learn from our mistakes and continue to improve and press our running game, because right now our backs are playing at a high level.” That was as close as the Blue Devils would get for the rest of the day. Before the half came to a close, the Tar Heels tacked on three scores in less than five minutes. Williams picked on freshman cornerback Jeremy McDuffie, hitting Mack Hollins for a 74-yard score and Bug Howard for a 49-yard strike to blow the game open. By halftime, with North Carolina up 38-10, Williams had already totaled a school-record 404 passing yards and four touchdowns—three through the air and one on the ground. He finished the game 23-of-35 for a school-record 494 yards and four passing touchdowns. “He is a big, physical, athletic guy, and he out-performed us,” Cutcliffe said. “All day long, I thought he made great decisions within their offense, got the ball where it needed to be.... You just have to continue to try and play more soundly to get in that mode.” The second half was merely an extension of the first 30 minutes, with North Carolina tacking on three more touchdowns in the third quarter alone. Sirk—who finished the day 18-of-37 for 191 yards and two interceptions—picked up a pair of rushing touchdowns, but it made no difference. The sole silver lining for Duke was its ground game. Duncan had a career-high 115 yards and one score on 13 carries and Sirk and senior Shaquille Powell combined for another 172 yards, giving the team a season-high 304 rushing yards. “That’s definitely something as an offensive line that we took out of this game,” senior center Matt Skura said. “I told those guys in the locker room, ‘You know there’s going to be mistakes, but we played hard through all four quarters.’ We never backed down. We rushed for over 300 yards, so I think that’s something you’ve got to think highly of as an offensive line.” The Blue Devils will try to break their two-game losing streak next Saturday at home against Pittsburgh.

Eric Lin | The Chronicle Redshirt junior Jela Duncan did his best to keep Duke close in the first half, finishing a 52-yard touchdown run to bring the Blue Devils within 11.

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DEFENSE EXPOSED IN BLOWOUT Seth Johnson The Chronicle CHAPEL HILL—At some point, the Homecoming crowd at Kenan Memorial Stadium may have expected to hear “EA Sports—it’s in the game” announced over the loudspeakers. The No. 21 Tar Heels racked up video game numbers all afternoon, tossing a flea flicker for an 89-yard touchdown on their opening play from scrimmage— one of three plays of 45 or more yards that reached pay dirt. By the time North Carolina’s 66-31 drubbing of the Blue Devils was complete, the Tar Heels left the field with more than 700 yards of total offense, more than 500 passing yards, complete control of the ACC Coastal Division and the Victory Bell. Although Duke entered its contest with the Tar Heels hoping to bring the Victory Bell back to Durham for the third time in four seasons and take control of the ACC Coastal Division, North Carolina quarterback Marquise Williams and his offense had other plans in mind for their Tobacco Road rivals. “I don’t know that I’ve ever seen as many explosive plays executed as their offense did,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “[Williams] is a big, physical, athletic guy, and he outperformed us.” In just less than three quarters of play— Williams was pulled from the game with a 59-24 lead in the waning minutes of the third quarter—the senior signal-caller amassed 524 total yards and five touchdowns. Williams surpassed the 200-yard mark through the air in the first quarter—finishing with 494 total—and broke school records for total yards of offense and passing yards in a single game. Despite the high billing of the Blue Devils’ 10th-ranked defense, it appeared that it remained in Durham for the short trip down 15-501. The Tar Heels’ gashing of defensive coordinator Jim Knowles’ 4-2-5 defense resembled the wide-open offensive style of a Big 12 team. The Blue Devils had only allowed 37 points in the first half thus far this season—they gave up 38 points before entering the locker room Saturday.

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle North Carolina found the end zone early and often in a 66-31 rout of the Blue Devils Saturday, picking on the Duke secondary by throwing the ball over the top.

“Before you know it, they had two touchdowns on us,” junior cornerback Breon Borders said. “We’re definitely frustrated. It’s not a good feeling getting blown out by your arch-rival.” Through eight games this season, Duke’s season-high in yards allowed was 452, which occurred on the road against Virginia Tech—a game that went into four overtime periods. In the first half alone, the defensive unit gave up 486 yards against Williams and the North Carolina offense. The Duke secondary’s “Cheetahs”— led by redshirt senior Jeremy Cash—was touted as one of the strongest points of a unit that was expected to keep that defensive fire alive. But following an injury to safety Deondre Singleton in the second quarter, things went downhill for a team already trailing 21-3 after the first quarter of play. The vaunted pass defense gave up 537 yards on 28 completions, contributing to the Tar Heels’ mark of 8.8 yards per play. “They just came out and outplayed

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle The North Carolina wide receiving corps had a field day against Duke’s defense Saturday, finishing with more than 500 yards as a unit.

us. They were on another level,” Borders said. “We had a good game plan. We knew what we were going to do and we knew their game plan. They just came out and outperformed us in all areas of the game.” It appeared for much of the game as if someone was holding the sprint button for both offenses, and not just for North Carolina. The two teams combined for 1,237 total yards of offense—the most in any game in Tar Heel history—and combined to produce the highestscoring game in Duke-North Carolina history, breaking the 1970 record of 93 total points. Due to the lack of defense for both sides, the Blue Devils found a lone bright spot in the breakout of their running game. With sophomore running back Shaun Wilson ruled out earlier in the week due to injury, redshirt junior Jela Duncan shouldered more of the load on the ground for Duke. The Charlotte, N.C., native displayed shades of his 2013 season performances by rushing for 115

yards and one touchdown—the first 100yard rushing game of his career. Along with Duncan, senior running back Shaquille Powell added 98 yards on 7.5 yards per carry, which contributed to the Blue Devils’ 327 yards on the ground—the most since amassing 331 against Kansas in 2014. “[We have to] take the positives, learn from the negatives and hopefully that’ll carry us for the next few games,” senior center Matt Skura said. Even though Duke cannot pause and hit the restart button or change its difficulty settings for another go at the Tar Heels, the team will have to pick itself up in a hurry as it readies itself for a showdown against Pittsburgh next weekend at Wallace Wade Stadium. “I think that we have the best team in the country,” linebacker Dwayne Norman said. “Today we didn’t show it—we worked for it and all that—but I think we do and I think that next week we’re going to show that we’re that best team.”

Eric Lin | The Chronicle After Saturday’s five-touchdown win, the Tar Heels will hold onto the Victory Bell for another year.

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Duke closes exhibition slate with second straight rout Greenwell scores 26, Stevens posts double-double to lead Blue Devils past Lions Salvadores makes her Blue Devil debut Jake Herb The Chronicle The lion might be king of the jungle, but Sunday the Blue Devils were kings of the court. No. 14 Duke defeated Saint Leo 116-33 Sunday afternoon Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday in its final exhibition contest. Redshirt sophomore Rebecca Greenwell led all scorers with 26 points, one of six Blue Devils to finish in double-figures. Sophomore Azurá Stevens and junior Kendall Cooper posted doubledoubles and freshmen Haley Gorecki and Crystal Primm combined for 30 points. The Lions’ 42 turnovers did not allow the visitors to stay competitive, but their tenacity on both ends of the ball challenged the Blue Devils, who committed 16 giveaways of their own. Saint Leo did not reach double-digits on the scoreboard until 6:19 remaining in the third quarter. “I think we got a little bit better today, Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “This particular scrimmage afforded us the opportunity to really try to push the ball, really try to work on our open sets in broken play situations and defensively we also had to work on some other things too, so that was important to us.” Although Duke commanded an imposing size advantage in the paint, it was the Blue Devils’ versatile backcourt that provided

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afternoon, finishing with 16 points on 7-of-8 shooting. A couple more 3-pointers from Greenwell, combined with efficient play from Cooper and Stevens in the post, pushed the lead to as many as 56 points before the halftime buzzer. “The team was focused,” McCallie said. “It’s nice to have a good, strong start, but more than that it’s good to play consistent[ly] all the way through.

Angela Salvadores remained somewhat of a mystery to Duke fans until Sunday afternoon, when she made her debut in a Blue Devil uniform. The freshman came off the bench and played 16 minutes in Duke’s 116-33 exhibition victory against Saint Leo. She did not have an eye-popping statistical performance—scoring nine points with five assists—but she made a major impact on defense and showed flashes of the playmaking abilities that could make her an electric point guard this season. “She’s a terrific passer, but she’s also a fabulous scorer,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “That wasn’t quite as evident, but she can score and she can pass and she’s a complete basketball player.” As the No. 5 recruit in the nation, the Leon, Spain, native headlines the Blue Devils’ top-ranked recruiting class, and she represented her country in the FIBA U19 World Championship and the FIBA U18 European Championship last summer. McCallie held her out of the team’s Blue-White scrimmage and the

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Jim Liu | The Chronicle Redshirt sophomore Rebecca Greenwell scored 26 points—including a 4-of-6 performance from behind the arc—as the Blue Devils cruised to an exhibition win Sunday.

much of the offense out of the gates. Greenwell and Primm together finished a perfect 5-of-5 from the field to guide Duke to a 34-5 advantage at the end of the first period. Cooper made an early impact on the boards, notching six of her 11 points in the first 10 minutes. Junior Oderah Chidom—who missed the final 11 games of last season due to a shoulder injury—made an impact from the post early, ending the first quarter with eight points on perfect 4-of-4 shooting. The Oakland, Calif., native remained hot throughout the

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Blue Devils close 4-game road swing with sweep The Tigers (5-21, 0-14 in the ACC) were not fazed after the first set and stayed with the Blue Devils (13-11, 8-6) at the beginning of the second frame. But leading 8-6, Duke went on a 7-0 run, followed by an 8-2 streak to close out a 25-22 set. In the stanza, the Blue Devils relied on a strong serve-receive effort that was absent from Friday’s loss. Freshman Kelli Kalinoski powered the 7-0 stretch with consistent serves, senior Emily Sklar and sophomore Nicole Elattrache each tallied an ace and the team committed only one service error during the frame. Although Duke jumped out to an 8-2 lead in the third set, Clemson responded with its own run to take a 20-18 advantage. But Sklar stepped up again with two consecutive kills and, thanks to a Tiger service error, the Blue Devlis led 21-20. The match stayed tight down the stretch, but Deichmester’s serving prowess gave the Blue Devils momentum. Leading 22-21, Meyer laid down a kill for the team’s second straight point, and leading 24-22, freshman Jessi Bartholomew sealed the match with a kill. “Today, after that first set, we were able to get more points when we had the ball, and that really helps you finish,” Nagel said. “[We] didn’t have many errors in the second and third sets after having a lot in the first.” Duke heads home to take on Syracuse Friday at 11 a.m. before a date with Boston College Sunday at 1 p.m.

Jack Dolgin The Chronicle With another victory—their fifth in seven tries—the Blue Devils finished a tough weekend trip and continued to keep the momentum going. Duke defeated Clemson 3-0 (25-23, 2512, 25-22) Sunday afternoon at Jervey Gym in Clemson, S.C., capping off a four-game road stretch. The DUKE 3 Blue Devils—who CLEM 0 could not win the close sets in Friday night’s loss to Georgia Tech—won both tight frames against the Tigers and won another by 13 points. “We wanted to play with more of a sense of urgency,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. “I don’t think we were the aggressor on Friday night…and I thought we did a better job of that today when it was a close score there at the end of the set.” The first set was not the Blue Devils’ best, and they trailed 20-19 after a Maggie Deichmeister error. But Deichmeister responded on the next point, setting up freshman Leah Meyer for the kill to tie the game. The teams traded blows for the next four points, and with the score even at 22, senior rightside hitter Christina Vucich recorded her first kill of the match. Vucich, sophomore Cadie Bates and junior middle blocker Jordan Tucker then blocked Kailey Harvell, and two

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Senior rightside hitter Christina Vucich came up big for the Blue Devils Sunday as Duke rebounded from Friday’s loss at Georgia Tech with a win at Clemson in straight sets.

points later, Tucker finished the set with her fourth kill. “It was huge for us to get that,” Nagel said. “We were communicating a lot better and were tougher, a little bit more disciplined in order to finish those points and get that point when it counted.” Vucich’s play came not only in the clutch, but in relief. Junior outside hitter Alyse Whitaker had been battling an injury all week and played sparingly against Georgia Tech before not playing at all Sunday. That opened the door for Vucich, who has played in just 17 of the team’s 87 sets this season.

The left-handed hitter from Morrisville, N.C., had a positive impact when on the floor Friday night in Atlanta, setting her up for more playing time Sunday. And again, Vucich delivered, finishing the match with a season-high five kills at a .417 rate. “She does a good job playing defense and in her position, but she moves the ball around well on offense and she’s a smart player,” Nagel said. “Our setters did a good job of getting her the ball today, which we needed because I think that opened up our other players as well.”

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Motin Yeung | The Chronicle Freshman Angela Salvadores scored nine points and dished out five assists in her debut Sunday at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

SALVADORES from page 10 first exhibition game against Pfeiffer because of her heavy physical workload during the summer and has been easing her into practice to give her time to rest. But with the regular season looming, it was time for her first game action in Duke’s final exhibition. “She has played a lot of basketball, first of all, and just transitioning to the [United States], I think she has been incredible,” McCallie said. “She has to deal with [a different] language— certainly her classes, her schedule, just everything that is so routine here. Tonight I thought she was a little bit like herself.”

Salvadores entered the game with 3:23 remaining in the first quarter and immediately brought a high level of energy to the court. A bit overanxious to be on the floor after her long rest, she aggressively tried to intercept a pass in the full-court press on her first defensive possession and was called for a foul. On the next possession, she almost got a steal on a crossover dribble by Lions’ point guard Jone’ Atkins, but could not control the loose ball. Salvadores continued to jump passing lanes and frustrate the Lions’ backcourt on defense for the rest of the game, finishing with three steals that all turned into successful fast break opportunities. In the second quarter, fans also

received a glimpse of the flashiness and risky decisions that trademark Salvadores’ style of play on offense. She received a pass from redshirt sophomore Rebecca Greenwell in transition and quickly tried to flip the ball behind her back to classmate Haley Gorecki, but Lion defender Asia Royster got a hand on the pass and came away with the steal. Still, Salvadores was not afraid to demonstrate her creativity as an offensive threat. “She kind of reminds me of [former Duke point guard] Chelsea Gray—she would throw it behind the back or nolook passes,” junior forward Kendall Cooper said. “If you weren’t ready, you would get your finger hurt or your face [hit], so you have to be ready.” Salvadores misfired on all four of her shots from the field in the first half— including two contested layups and an open 3-point attempt from the wing— but was more settled when she entered the game in the third quarter. Her most impressive offensive play of the contest came in this period, when she took a steal coast-to-coast and finished a layup in traffic that bounced high off the glass and spun into the hoop. She also took a pass from Azurá Stevens in the fourth quarter and made a layup through a hard bump from Royster, although she missed the ensuing free throw and failed to complete the 3-point play. On the offensive end, the freshman alternated point guard duties with classmate Kyra Lambert. The top-10 recruits did not play together a lot, though they

did share the floor for a couple minutes in the second quarter as both helped bring the ball up the court. Salvadores’ main backcourt mates were Gorecki and Greenwell, although McCallie said that any group of guards could play together at any time this season. “When I put them out there, I feel like there is a chemistry amidst them all. I tried today on purpose some combinations to look and see, and I didn’t feel a very big difference between ball movement, chemistry and finding each other,” McCallie said. “I wouldn’t hesitate to put any of our guards together in any combination, and that’s the beauty of this team.”

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Indoor Stadium. But West said that this visit was different than all the others. “It’s great to honestly be a coach against Duke. I wasn’t sure if in my career that would ever happen,” West said. “I’m really excited about what [the Blue Devils] are going to do. I support them all year long. They have a really good group of girls…it’s time to capture [a championship].” In her first appearance after resting much of the preseason following a busy summer of international competition, Salvadores showed some signs of rust. The Leon, Spain, product finished with nine points on 3-of-9 shooting and chipped in five assists. The Blue Devils rested graduate student Amber Henson Sunday after the forward tweaked her leg earlier in the year. The Tampa, Fla., native was granted an extra year of eligibility from the NCAA, and Duke is looking to take full advantage of that extra year when the season starts Friday. Although the Blue Devils struggled with injuries in recent seasons, the squad is by and large healthy now, aside from Henson’s lingering leg injury. Duke will need all of its players healthy if the offense is to execute McCallie’s plans. “With the kind of basketball that we want to play, with the up-tempo style offensively and the pressing and running and all the neat things occurring today, we have to have players who can go,” McCallie said. “We need to have 10 strong. This team is going to develop as a USA team if we do it right, meaning…we should have that kind of depth and that kind of power with our creativity.” The Blue Devils kick off their season Friday with a trip to Philadelphia to take on Pennsylvania at 8 p.m. at the historic Palestra.

We don’t want to go up and down, we just want to keep climbing and keep putting the pressure on.” On a day highly touted freshman Angela Salvadores made her debut in a Duke uniform, Greenwell took the reins in the backcourt. The Owensboro, Ky., native finished the day 11-of-16 from the field and added six rebounds and five assists. With Greenwell at the helm, the strength of the Blue Devils’ revamped transition offense was on full display from the moment the game began. Greenwell and Stevens provided the lion’s share of Duke’s fast break scoring opportunities, combining for nine steals, which teammates converted into 32 transition points. The successful transition game was directly related to the success of the Blue Devils’ press Sunday—especially in the first two periods. McCallie’s squad held Saint Leo to 3-of-22 shooting in the first half, including a combined 0-of-5 from beyond the arc. The Lions eventually found their footing around the basket and finished the game shooting at a 25 percent clip, but struggled to correct the lopsided turnover margin. Duke converted those turnovers into 54 points—47 percent of its total offensive output on the day. Saint Leo head coach Missy West said that she was disappointed that her team played scared against the Blue Devils in the first half, but praised her team for showing that they can compete down the stretch. West—who was once a Duke player herself, capturing ACC tournament titles and appearing in the 1999 national championship game—is more than familiar with Duke’s campus and the floorboards at Cameron sudoku_504A

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t is a toxic time on America’s campuses. It is a toxic time, and we are apathetic. Some are too tired of speaking against echo chambers—where nobody is willing to listen. Others are too tired of being asked to listen to something they deem “not their problem.” It is a toxic time, yet we have retreated from trying to make it better. We do not know how to make it better. And now, yet again, we are left sad and hurt and uncertain after a student’s life was threatened on account of his sexuality. As these events transpire at Duke and across the country, we risk becoming normalized to experiencing them unless we act otherwise. We call on leadership. We yearn for leadership— from our administrators, our students, our Trustees, from anyone willing to fight to make it better. At Yale and at Missouri, they want the same, and we desperately need the same. Two weeks ago we called on the University to make explicit conduct guidelines establishing a clear mechanism to deal with hate crimes. It seems to have fallen on deaf ears per comments that same week. Now another hate crime has been perpetrated, a manifestation of a climate where it is somehow alright for students to be made uncomfortable in their own being. It has become easier for Duke to ride out hate speech than to create a real response

that holds culprits accountable for these incidents. There are two other primary calls for change. First, a more direct orientation program that puts institutional history and recent campuswide setbacks alongside broader socio-political problems in contemporary American society. Current additions to orientation merely nibble at the real issues. Secondly, we emphasize the need for a diversity and community relations campus climate survey. The Duke Social Relationships

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social life. This could take the form of an Area of Knowledge concerning American cultural history or a Trinity requirement that forces ethical engagement specifically with the world today. Our student government has also failed us. Rather than using student leadership opportunities as a way to enhance one’s resume on pet projects, our student leaders need to get in touch once more with students, gain their respect and engage with marginalized communities to fold in other communities and construct the dialogue we yearn for and yet never see sustained after these events. The Social Justice Fellowship is a start, but on its own, it is a small bandage meant to heal a festering wound. Tomorrow, we will write about the broader cultural concerns at Duke that make progress so stagnant. Wednesday, we will examine events at Duke in the context of our peers across the nation. Hatred and discrimination are on campuses all over America. Our being passive and “too busy” enables its painful, hurtful, toxic and debilitating repetition. We are sad and angry, and we don’t know what else to say. We devote this week to seeking to understand what is going on. It will be an increasingly toxic time here at Duke if we continue to cover our eyes and ears.

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wish Duke assigned more group projects. No, I’m not kidding. Yes, I feel fine. Few things strike fear into the hearts of Duke students faster than a group project. As the Professor begins assigning groups, there is a panicked flurry of glances around the room, each student trying separate the weak from the strong. The kid looking out the window in the back? Fingers crossed they’re in another group. The people in the front who always raise their

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because inequality and general apathy still exist as well. I’ve experienced that apathy particularly in movements to combat sexual assault on college campuses. No matter how many times we cite the number–1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted while in college–it never really seems to register. No matter how many organizations work to combat sexual assault–the Women’s Center, Duke Support, Breaking Out, Women’s Collective, We are Here Duke, the Administrative Task Force on Sexual Assault Prevention

BETWEEN THE LINES hands? Students silently pray to join that bunch. Professors seem to rejoice in the pain that is a group assignment, whether it’s a lab, a paper, a presentation or the myriad of other tasks they manage to concoct. For instance, my professor this semester decided that a perfect final project would be a sixteen-person group paper. On torture. As I’ve sat locked in a room over the last several days editing this monstrosity, I wonder if he intended us to really connect with this topic by having us actually live it. We have about 90 pages of material that reads more like Steinbeck’s stream of consciousness than anything resembling an analytical research paper. My group members have been fantastic, though; everyone wrote great individual sections. We’ve been researching for weeks. I’ve never seen a group of people work this hard. But knitting together sixteen different people’s styles of writing to read as one coherent paper is quite a daunting task. And one of the best tasks I’ve been assigned at Duke. Out of any assignment type out there, group projects are the most representative of real life. Most jobs consist mainly of group work, whether that’s designing plans for buildings, writing legal briefs, conducting research or designing new technology. We very rarely go it alone. What’s more, we don’t always get to choose the group of people we have to work with. Learning how to work with a large group of people on one project is one of the most critically useful skills out there. Preparation for our careers, however, isn’t the only reason we should want more group project experience. Social activism succeeds through collaboration. Coalition building works because we convince people to take ownership within a movement. Group projects present the classic collective action problem: how do you get apathetic group members to care about the project and help move it forward? Letting them free ride is a lose-lose scenario for everyone, and is likely to breed resentment among the active group members. Nearly every group project in the history of group projects has had this kind of problem, and forcing students to confront it in the classroom is the best possible preparation for confronting it in real life. The reason that social justice movements still exist is

and countless more–I’m still asked on a regular basis why there isn’t anything happening on campus working to prevent sexual assault. There is little desire to take ownership of what’s happening on our campus and join the work of the groups that already exist. But yet the success of movements that work to combat sexual assault fundamentally depends on everyone’s care and participation; it requires a culture change that emphasizes consent, peoples’ bodily autonomy, and rejects sexual violence. That’s a collective action problem: it’s a lot easier to free ride off others’ activism than to take part in it yourself. Public apathy isn’t limited to movements combating sexual assault. Recent hate crimes on campus, including the defacing of a Black Lives Matter poster with a racial slur and a homophobic death threat written on an East Campus dorm, have perfectly showcased apathy among Duke students. Some of us attended the rallies and perhaps had some conversations with our friends, but most of us aren’t taking any further action now. As Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors challenged us a couple weeks ago, “What will you do to save black lives?” What will we as privileged Duke students do to help those downtrodden and forgotten in our society? What, specifically, will each one of us do? Group projects are a microcosm of the type of collective action and apathy problems we face in everyday life. They’re the best possible practice we can get if we want to change the world around us. Sometimes group projects fail because of apathetic members, just as social justice movements fail when communities don’t care. As Jack Donahue–the first-year who was targeted last week with a homophobic slur–said, “To those idly standing by, what you are doing is as hurtful to me and my people as anything that any bigot can scrawl on my wall or even nail to my back.” We need to begin seeing our existence in the world as a group project. None of us exist alone, and we achieve no progress unless we all decide to cast off our apathy. The world would be a better place if we lived life as a collective endeavor. We owe some effort to our group members. Dana Raphael is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.

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et me start off by saying this: I am gay. Even just a few months ago, I would not have felt comfortable saying those words to anyone (including myself), but I’ve come a long way since then and now am more than happy to say that I’m here, I’m queer and y’all better get used to it. My coming-out process was a long

people, at least have the guts to show your face. Until then, you are nothing but a coward in my book. And to anyone who thinks that this isn’t a big deal: if we don’t address the blatant death threat made against an entire community, are we just waiting around for another incident to happen? Something even worse?

LGBTQIA community responds to vandalism (Trigger warning: homophobic language. Please note that this column has been pre-emptively tone policed down to allow for hetero/cis/allosexual comfort.) o whomever vandalized East House with a homophobic death threat on Thursday: Thank you for your interest in our

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time in the making. Throughout high school, I sat and watched the people around me explore relationships, wondering why I couldn’t do the same. When women expressed interest in me, I would get mad at myself for not feeling anything in return. Why couldn’t I feel what they felt? I finally got to a point near the end of my first year of college where I felt like I couldn’t move forward in my life if I didn’t come to terms with my sexuality. I did a lot of soul-searching. Tears were shed. I eventually mustered up the courage to confide in a few close friends, and their support was overwhelming. I then spent the summer exploring how to be queer. I created a Tinder account in the hopes of meeting other queer men and seeing what it felt like to date. I somehow managed to score a date with a guy I had a huge crush on, which blossomed into a wonderful relationship that has changed my life immensely for the better. At the end of the summer, I decided it was time to come out to my parents, which was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. As soon as it was over, however, I felt free. I was done hiding, done pushing my feelings away, done thinking that there was something wrong with me. I came back to Duke for this semester a different person, one more confident, comfortable and happy. I don’t say any of this stuff to make anyone feel bad for me, or to applaud myself for my struggles. I say this because I finally completely love myself, and no bigot with a marker is ever going to change that. But at the same time, I can’t say that this doesn’t sting. I hurt for all queer people on this campus. I worry they don’t feel safe or loved. I hurt for queer people of color and for trans folk (as a white, gay, cis-man, I realize that I have a lot of privileges that other members of the LGBTQ+ community don’t have). But I especially hurt for those who are closeted. There are so many people here, and all over the world, who either haven’t come to terms with their identities yet or for whom coming out simply isn’t an option. If there is already something holding them back from being open about themselves, how can they open up now? How can they feel comfortable in their own skin knowing that there are people on this campus who wish them dead? How is this acceptable? This part is for whoever decided to write the message to Jack or to anyone who shares his or her sentiments. You can spew hate all you want under the guise of anonymity, but I will never take you seriously unless you own up. If you don’t approve of queer

A lot of people seem to be asking how we can make marginalized communities feel safe at Duke, but that’s not enough for me. To me, the feeling of safety is a basic human right. Marginalized groups should not only feel safe from harm here, but they should feel included, respected, cared for, even celebrated. But most of all, they should feel normal. And after talking with some friends, I realize that this should start even before students get to Duke. The admissions office should put a bigger focus on building an inclusive community of students. The application process should make it clear that Duke is an inclusive space. That if you aren’t comfortable with LGBTQ+ people or people of color, you should either be willing to analyze and challenge those opinions or you need not apply. If Duke wants to advertise itself as a progressive institution, it needs to actually do something to protect its marginalized groups. And what can we, the Duke community, do to fight bigotry and make one another feel at home? We can definitely comfort and love all of our peers who identify as LGBTQ+. We can ask our friends and classmates how they are doing and actually listen to the responses. But don’t just spread love to people you know are queer. Understand that there are closeted people at Duke and elsewhere and that you can never make assumptions about someone’s sexuality or gender identity because of how they look or act. This means not just looking out for your friends who are queer but for all people. You don’t need to know someone’s sexual identity to make them feel welcome. And people don’t have to come out to you for you to have helped them feel better about who they are. I know this because there were times at Duke last year when I felt accepted for my queerness before I was able to articulate my sexuality to anyone. I have been blessed with a great support system, and all queer people deserve to have access to that. If we really think about how we act, about the types of jokes we make and about how we treat those around us, I truly believe that we can make Duke more inclusive for all students. Let’s work together to make all spaces at Duke LGBTQ+ friendly, not just a select few. Every single member of this community should feel comfortable in his or her own skin. This school is our home, which means it’s on all of us to treat one another with respect and love and not to tolerate hatred. Let’s do better, Duke. Bryan Higgins is a Trinity sophomore.

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community! Let me be the first to say that it’s always refreshing to hear frank and honest discussion of hard topics like these on campus. Queer experience has taken something of a back seat in the national dialogue since gay marriage was legalized this summer, so your interest in bringing us back into the conversation is truly flattering! However, we did detect a faint hint of hostility in your message “DEATH TO ALL F--- @ JACK,” so we decided to use this space to address any of your possible concerns with our community. We’ll begin with the good news: all gays will indeed die! Unfortunately, science is not yet sufficiently advanced to unlock the secrets of immortality, meaning that at present both all queer and all straight people are on course to at some point perish. Mission accomplished! We sense that your demand for our genocide may be motivated by a subtle dislike for our community. While we get that—you can’t be friends with everybody, after all!—we would still love to get your feedback on what exactly grinds your gears about us. Perhaps on this occasion your objection was that young Jack was just being “too gay” for your tastes. This, we freely admit, is a complaint we hear often about our community! Unfortunately we’ve had chronic problems taking steps to deal with this pressing issue because we haven’t yet managed to work out what “too gay” means. We’ve had our best queer minds working on it: does it mean being so attracted to the opposite sex that the gay builds up within your body, periodically bursting out of you from toxic queer pustules? Maybe instead it means that you’re so gay that you have excess gay, and the gayness physically exudes from you, creating whole surplus body parts made only from gay. One theory we’ve been working on is that when a person is “too gay” it means that person is dangerously enthusiastic about being queer, leading them into activities like roaming the Serengeti looking to wrestle any aggressively heteronormative animals or BASE jumping from a cliff with only a copy of Foucault’s “History of Sexuality” for a parachute. Of course, you could just dislike queer people because they’re queer. Alas, there’s not much we can do about that! But if that is the case we would just like to ask that, if possible, you try to avoid murdering us. I don’t want to be an inconvenience or seem to be stepping on your freedom of opinion— and I apologize if I’m coming across as overly emotional!—but it would very much be a lovely surprise to have you not kill us for being queer. Sorry if that’s an imposition! We’d next like to address the many allies who have stood with us through

this somewhat trying time. We know that we have probably seemed unusually angry of late, and that our indiscriminate rage has made some of you feel unjustly attacked. We understand that! But allow us to analogize for a moment. Imagine that you are strolling down a bucolic country path. All of a sudden you come across me, who has been

moderately stabbed. “Monday Monday!” you exclaim, “What can I do to help?” To this I respond by screaming “CALL A DAMN AMBULANCE YOU IDIOT!”— except with more swearing, which I’m not allowed to print in The Chronicle. Now, I hope that you’d agree with me that it would be a tad perverse for you to respond to this outburst by saying, “Well come on, Monday Monday. You could stand to be a little more polite to someone that’s helping you.” I understand fully if this analogy seems hyperbolic to you! Receiving a death threat probably doesn’t engender the exact same sensations as actually getting stabbed. But to make the metaphor work, it’s important to point out that queer experience of violence at Duke isn’t limited to the threat against Jack’s life. As it happens, intimidation and physical threatening of queer people here actually happens pretty often. The number of people I know who’ve had a homophobic run-in at Duke (especially at Shooters, naturally) would make your head if not spin then at least revolve gently in attenuated surprise. So in a context where violence really can happen at any time, I hope it doesn’t seem odd that we’d react to a real life death threat with a little nervousness. If anything, as I’ve tried to demonstrate through the unflappably positive tone of this column, it should seem far more bizarre to respond to a death threat by remaining perfectly neutral and academic. And indeed, this neutrality is a farce: I am very angry. Somewhere on campus our friend with the unusually square-shaped handwriting continues to walk among us unnoticed; combine this danger with Duke’s typically short institutional memory (*ahem*), and it should seem obvious that we’re a little irate. And before you say that we need to grow a thicker skin, do bear in mind that this is not the first time most of us have encountered homophobia. We’re not upset at getting our first taste of the real world; we’re upset that the worst of the real world has followed us into a space we like to think of as safe. But yes, I suppose I should go back to being satirical. If you have any queeries for us, feel free to get in touch. Maybe skip the vandalism this time, and do something more creative. Here’s an idea: how about you pay a biker to have his back tattooed with your thoughts and stand shirtless in the middle of Chapel Quad, every thirty seconds shouting, “I AM THE MESSAGE FLESH. DEVOUR THE INFORMATION FROM MY BONES USING YOUR EYE SPHERES.” That’d be fun. All the best, Gays. DUKE, WHAT’S GOOD?

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The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila p November 9-16 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.

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Richard Mosse: The Enclave. Immersive 40-minute six-channel 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 10 Inventing Vivian Maier. Art history lecture by Abigail Solomon-Godeau (UC Santa Barbara). 6 pm, A266, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse. Free. November 11 MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Bill Burke: A Life at the End of the Gasoline Age. An artist talk by photographer and Duke MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts visiting artist Bill Burke. 6:30pm. Full Frame Theater. Free. November 12 Photographer Nadia Sablin. An artist’s talk by CDS/ Honickman First Book Prize in Photography winner Nadia Sablin on her exhibition and book Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila. 5:30pm, followed by a reception and book signing, Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free. An Experiment With An Air Pump by Shelagh Stephenson. What price would you pay for knowledge? Furtive romance and troubling secrets infuse this examination of ethical challenges in scientific research spanning 1799 through 1999. Duke Theater Studies departmental production, directed by Jules Odendahl-James. 8pm, Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center. $10 General Public; $5 Students/Sr. Citizens.

reception p artist’s talk p book signing thursday, november 12, 2015 p 5:30–7:30 p.m. rubenstein photography gallery, rubenstein library

November 13 Rare Music Concert: Music for Brass. Barry Bauguess, keyed trumpet & cornet; John O’Brien, fortepiano & piano; and Leah Peroutka, violin, perform late 18th & early 19th century music by Hummel, Mozart, and Brandt. Presented in association with DUMIC (Duke University Musical Instrument Collections). 5pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Free. An Experiment With An Air Pump. (See November 12.) 8pm The Real Mayberry. The trials and tribulations of Mount Airy, Andy Griffith’s small NC hometown. Part of the Fresh Docs Film Series from the Center for Documentary Studies and the Southern Documentary Fund. 7pm, Full Frame Theater, American Tobacco Campus. Free. November 14 Duke Opera Workshop – Susan Dunn, director. Revue of movie musicals performed with staging & costumes. 8pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Free. An Experiment With An Air Pump. (See November 12.) 8pm November 15 Duke Opera Workshop – Susan Dunn, director. Revue of movie musicals performed with staging & costumes. 3pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

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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 10 Innocence of Memories - lead-in to visit by novelist Orhan Pamuk New Turkish Cinema November 11 Like Father, Like Son Cine-East (Japan) November 16 Kosmos - Q&A to follow w/ Prof. Erdağ Göknar (AMES) New Turkish Cinema ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

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