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Graduate students criticize OneDuke emergency fund rushed process and that this was not appropriately vetted,” she said.

Vir Patel The Chronicle The new OneDuke emergency fund has generated controversy within the Graduate and Professional Student Council. The OneDuke Access Fund—spearheaded by GPSC President Marcus Benning, Trinity ‘14—was approved at GPSC’s Sept. 27 meeting. Six graduate and professional students applicants will be awarded a $200 grant each month, but several GPSC members have raised concerns about the way the program was approved. “I abstained from the vote,” wrote Billy Gerhard, a Ph.D. student in environmental engineering, in an email. “I did not feel that my concerns were completely addressed, but I also did not want to prevent a plan with momentum and noble intentions from moving forward.” The initiative was formally announced at GPSC’s Aug. 30 meeting, during which Benning led a discussion on the merits of the program and ways that it could be modified to promote fairness and maintain student privacy. Some members brought up other concerns at the subsequent Sept. 13 meeting, but the initiative was passed Sept. 27 with a vote of 57 in favor and nine opposed. The students will be selected through a lottery system and will be able to use their new funds to help pay for expenses related to “travel, professional wardrobe, food and essential school supplies,” he added. According to an explanatory document, three of the grants will

Jeremy Chen | The Chronicle Some members of GPSC claim that President Marcus Benning rushed the approval process of the OneDuke Access Fund, which provides money for graduate students needing aid.

go toward food and one grant will go to each of the remaining categories. “People have been talking about creating a way to address food insecurity on campus for years,” Benning, who is also a current student at the Law School and a member of the Duke Student Publishing Company’s Board, said. “People are not going to be completely satisfied with it until they see it as working. And so at some point, GPSC had to have the courage and just do it.”

Some GPSC representatives—including MD/Ph.D candidate Colleen McClean, who is also a member of The Chronicle’s independent Editorial Board—said they felt Benning had unnecessarily rushed the approval process without proper discussion. McClean said the process of approving the fund was accelerated and definitely a departure from how GPSC typically operates. “For those of us that have been around for a while, we know that this was a really

Internal disputes Among the contentious issues, McClean explained, were the structure of the program and its long-term goals. The use of a lottery system means students with more pressing financial concerns might not receive the grant when they need it the most, she said. She added that the fund currently does not allow funding for medical emergencies and is restricted to pre-approved vendors—which may not offer the appropriate food or supplies for students who have their own families. The vendors are Duke Stores, Macy’s, Delta Airlines and MegaBus, according to an internal document explaining the fund. “My impression is that many of us think it’s a great idea to find a way to help out struggling [graduate] students,” wrote Karoline Johnson, a Ph.D. student in environmental engineering, in an email. “But it’s very challenging to find a method that actually meets these student’s needs efficiently while keeping the distribution of limited funds fair and trying to prevent possible abuse of the system.” McClean noted that many graduate and professional students often face recurring financial hardships, but that OneDuke does not address these chronic concerns. However, providing short-term relief is OneDuke’s primary goal, Benning explained. “This is not meant to be anyone’s main source of funding,” he said. “It’s not something See GRADUATE STUDENTS on Page 4

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Jack Dolgin | The Chronicle Deondre Singleton and the Blue Devils made several big plays on defense to contain Heisman Trophy frontrunner Lamar Jackson in Friday’s loss.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky.—With one major road upset already under their belts this season, the Blue Devils were hungry to pull off another shocker as they traveled to take on the nation’s No. 7 team. For 57 minutes, they kept the score within striking distance. But a Breon Borders roughing the kicker penalty ended Duke’s chances. Borders hit Louisville kicker Evan O’Hara after a 46-yard field goal attempt with two minutes left to set up the Cardinals’ gamesealing touchdown as Louisville escaped with a 24-14 win at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. The Blue Devils’ conservative offense could not keep pace with the Cardinals’ topranked attack—which outgained Duke 469239—but a rugged style of play and a 14:24 edge in time of possession kept Duke in it until the very end. The Blue Devils would have had a chance

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for a game-winning or game-tying drive before Borders’ penalty. “It was obviously disappointing to see that we weren’t going to get the ball. I thought Breon took a good angle, but you can’t really say that,” Duke quarterback Daniel Jones said. “We were pumped. It was an opportunity to take the ball and win the game. It didn’t work out that way. We were ready and ready to execute, but there’s not much to say about that.” A grueling, 15-play, 75-yard drive brought the Blue Devils (3-4, 0-3 in the ACC) back in the fourth quarter, capped by a 20-yard touchdown pass to Johnathan Lloyd down the left sideline. Jones and company converted on three third downs and a fourth down during the sequence—which ate up nearly nine minutes of clock—and cut the score to 17-14, putting the pressure on Louisville and Heisman Trophy frontrunner Lamar Jackson to ice the game. Jackson—who finished the game with 181

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Duke student startup gives Lemurpalooza promotes ugly produce a home Adopt-a-Lemur program model and have received further support from the Innovation & Entrepreneurship program regarding advertising. The duo expressed gratitude for the Duke community and the amount of effort people have been willing to put in to help them succeed. In April, the company was awarded a $5,000 Environmental Innovation and Entrepreneurship Grant from the Nicholas School of the Environment. Currently, Bell and Ranganathan run all operations themselves. At the start of each week, they send Durham farmers surveys to find out the misshapen produce they have on hand. Bell and Ranganathan place their orders for the items they want, collect the produce and store them in rented cold storage space at Bull City Cool Hub. “We’re very hands-on right now,” Bell said. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons “We lay it all out, we bag it, we weigh it, we make Ungraded Produce delivers baskets to sure everyone gets the right amount, we put it in customers’ doors every other week. our delivery bags and we make the deliveries.” Their customers include Duke Joyce Er undergraduate and graduate students as well The Chronicle as alumni. “It’s been really striking how positive the Seniors Courtney Bell and Saranya feedback has been,” Ranganathan said. “We’ve Ranganathan believe that our food system had clients say, ‘I’d pay more for this.’” Senior Lara Haft said that her subscription is broken—and they’ve started their own company to change that. to Ungraded Produce had reduced her Their startup Ungraded Produce obtains grocery bill and the time she spends shopping. misshapen produce from farms in Durham Senior Jessica Lee agreed, noting the difficulty County and delivers boxes of produce to of buying produce at Duke. “I’ve lived on Central since sophomore its subscribers’ doorsteps every other week. Customers pay $13 per 10 lb. box, each year, and I really enjoy cooking, but vegetables containing between four and six types of are hard to purchase on campus,” Lee said. produce. Bell and Ranganathan noted that However, Lee said that it would be nice they were inspired to start Ungraded Produce to know in advance what produce she will during Summer 2015, when Bell’s longstanding receive and put in requests for the kinds of interest in sustainable agriculture coincided produce in the baskets. Lee noted though with Ranganathan’s internship at the Durham that sometimes the unexpected foods have Poverty Reduction Initiative. lead to interesting creations. “We wanted to employ a private-sector “I would never have thought of making solution to address issues of food insecurity and jalapeno chocolate chip cookies if we hadn’t food waste in America,” Ranganathan said. “We gotten a bunch of jalapenos in one of the picked a private-sector, for-profit route because baskets, but make them I did, and they were it’s more inherently sustainable. If you structure delicious,” Lee said. the company right, you don’t have to worry Bell and Ranganathan currently serve about about seeking outside funding.” 15 customers in their trial phase happening Since then, they have worked with legal clinics now but expect to serve 35 customers by next at the Duke Law School, as well as the Nicholas See PRODUCE on Page 4 School, to formulate their present business

Caroline Brockett The Chronicle The Duke Lemur Center hosted its biannual Lemurpalooza Friday to raise money for its Adopt-a-Lemur program. Lemurpalooza allowed visitors to stroll through the center at their own pace without a normal guided tour, learn about lemur biology and conservation from experts scattered throughout the center and eat food from local food trucks—all for a $50 donation per car. The center’s parking lot was kept busy with about 70 attending cars filled with lemur lovers of all ages. “It costs $7,400 a year per lemur to care for it, house it and give it great medical care,” said Sara Clark, director of communications at the Lemur Center. “Duke does give us some funding and we get funding through grants, but a lot of that extra income is made up by private donations, so that’s so important for us.” The Adopt-a-Lemur program allows lemur fans to donate anywhere from $50 to $7,400

Courtesy of the Duke Lemur Center The Lemur Center’s festival showcased six lemurs up for adoption, including one who was feature in an IMAX documentary.

to help with the cost of housing, feeding, daily care, health care and training for a single lemur. There are currently six lemurs up for adoption, including Raven, described as the Lemur Center’s “movie star” fat-tailed dwarf lemur for her appearance in “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar,” an IMAX documentary. Although the Lemur Center is focused on studying lemurs and connecting that research to help humans, the center also hopes to promote conservation efforts, because lemurs received the title of the world’s most endangered mammals in 2012. The Duke Lemur Center has helped organize and manage conservation efforts in Madagascar for more than 35 years with its most recent effort being the SAVA Project in the SAVA region of Madagascar. Marina Blanco, a post-doctoral project coordinator currently living in Madagascar, attended the event and helped educate visitors at the SAVA Project booth. The SAVA Project, which was started by the center four years ago, is a conservation initiative based in Madagascar that provides locals with education and tools to help them survive without further harming the forests. Examples include growing yams instead of rice, which requires further deforestation. These solutions in turn help save the lives of lemurs and their habitats, Blanco said. Donations from the Adopt-a-Lemur program also help fund the SAVA Project. Blanco’s focus is on research, but she also gets involved in the conservation efforts by bringing students from the local university in Madagascar with her to conduct her research. “You have a possibility to bring ideas from people here in the U.S. and bring those ideas and test them in the field,” Blanco said. “People here have a lot of things that they would like to contribute. I mean yes, it’s all to save the lemurs, but you can feel more compelled to invest in education, environmental education, so there are options in working with schools and kids to develop gardens, to develop conservation activities.” The event attracted families from Durham and Chapel Hill as well as some from outside See LEMURS on Page 4

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Which restaurant has the best burger on Ninth Street? Isabelle Doan The Chronicle For any student who craves a good burger— an essential college food—Ninth Street near East Campus provides tons of choices. However, with so little money and so many options, it is important for students to make an educated choice. I decided to put four restaurants to the test and visited The Tavern, Elmo’s Diner, Dain’s Place and Burger Bach to find the best burger on Ninth Street. These burgers were rated in four different categories—the juiciness of the meat, overall flavor, bun quality and wow factor—on a scale from one to five. These individual ratings were then averaged in order to come up with an overall rating. All of the burgers were tested at the same time, and I had never been to any of these restaurants before. The Tavern It’s not technically on Ninth Street, but it’s just a short walk away. Because they didn’t have a “classic” burger, I ordered the Tavern Burger—it seemed like a good idea to get the sandwich that is named after the establishment. The burger is topped with chili, coleslaw and an onion ring, which is probably why it was the most expensive of the burgers I tried, priced at $10.95. The burger was extremely robust. The meat wasn’t too juicy, but the chili more than compensated for the lack of juiciness. Different textures and flavors in the bun, the burger, the slaw and the chili balanced each other nicely. Full credit should be given to the bun. It was buttery and rich, which offset the tomato and chili. However, it was also a little sweet and added to the overall character of the

burger. Plus, the chips that came with the meal were really good. Juiciness: 3, Flavor: 3.5, Bun: 4.5, Wow Factor: 4, Overall rating: 3.75 Elmo’s Diner Here I ordered a basic beef burger, which is a third of a pound of beef topped with lettuce, tomato, onion and mayo. It was the cheapest of the burgers at $6.55. The first bite of the burger brought back memories of school cookouts. This burger is exactly what you would expect, truly a classic burger. The meat is slightly dry, and it seemed like Elmo’s tried to compensate for that with an ample amount of mayo. The bun is unassuming and pretty basic, making sure Isabelle Doan | The Chronicle that it doesn’t get in the way of the meat. It was The burgers were rated on a scale of one to five based on the juiciness of the meat, flavor, bun and wow factor. delicious, although extremely average. Juiciness: 2, Flavor: 4, Bun: 3, Wow Factor: flavored and didn’t get in the way of the rest of 3, Overall rating: 3 the meal. Overall, the burger was something classic and beautiful. Dain’s Place I ordered an eight-ounce angus burger Juiciness: 4.5, Flavor: 4.5, Bun: 5, Wow with a couple of free fixings like lettuce and Factor: 4, Overall Rating: 4.5 tomatoes, although they had many more toppings to choose from. The customizability Burger Bach of the burger was actually rather impressive, I ordered the Basic Deluxe Burger, which especially in contrast to the other restaurants I was priced at a moderate $9.95 and included visited. Although the base price of the burger toppings like dill pickles, onions, lettuce and is $7.99, there were plenty of add-ons available tomato. Interestingly, Burger Bach was the either for free or two or three more dollars. only restaurant out of the four that asked me The first thing that I noticed about this burger how I wanted my burger cooked. (I requested is that it had a huge piece of meat. That meat did well-done meat.) Burger Bach knows what it’s doing with its not let me down—it was extremely juicy and tasted fresh. However, the real star of the show meat. This burger had the best meat out of the was the bun. I cannot sing enough praises about four. It was brilliantly cooked, slightly smoky it—definitely the best bun of the night. The bun and a little sweet. Unfortunately, the rest of was slightly salty, which complemented the rest the burger was rather disappointing. The of the burger. Despite its saltiness, it was subtlety sauces—ketchup, mustard and mayo—were

better than average, but the burger overall was overwhelmingly saucy. As a result, although the taste of the burger was bold, the flavors ended up being muddled together, leading to a rather mushy burger. It didn’t help that the bun was also lackluster. Juiciness: 5, Flavor: 3.5, Bun: 2, Wow Factor: 3.5, Overall Rating: 3.5 The winner: Dain’s Place Based on ratings alone, my recommendation for a classic burger would be Dain’s Place. There, you can get a huge, greattasting burger at a decent price. However, each of the burger joints has their merits. The Tavern presented a unique, tasty burger, but it’s on the pricy side. Elmo’s has a classic, cheap burger, although it’s a little average. And Burger Bach is the place to go if you want good meat.

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spring and will reach out to farms within an expanded 40-mile radius. They have plans for petite five lb. baskets, large 15 lb. baskets as well as all-vegetable or all-fruit baskets. The team is also looking into adding more points of distribution to their supply chain. They aim to include an option for subscribers to sponsor a food-insecure family in the near future as well. The duo noted that the process of developing Ungraded Produce has been personally enlightening, adding that they had learned more about the extent of food wastage during the last two years. Bell expressed her commitment to running Ungraded Produce in the Durham area beyond graduation next Spring. “As an environmental science major who wants to go into sustainable food, I was definitely very conscious during my sophomore year that I have this interest—but what am I going to do with that after college?” Bell said. “Coming up with this idea was a blessing. It does make me more confident in pursuing my interests.”

that any student should be planning their finances around and depend on. Rather, it’s a program where if you are in an emergency situation, you have a good shot of being able to get some funds when you need it.” According to a press release, students can only receive the grant once during their studies, but the OneDuke access fund does not restrict how many times full-time students can apply for the award. Students are not required to submit financial documents to demonstrate their need and will instead rely on an “honor system” when applying, Benning said. Although he acknowledged this could potentially lead to abuse, Benning explained that maintaining student privacy was more important. “If you decide that you want [students] to provide financial documents, then you implicate privacy concerns, financial aid concerns and potentially [Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act] concerns,” Benning said. “If you do not require records, then you are going on an honor system and have to be more trusting of students.”

During its initial Aug. 30 introduction, Benning called the program “revolutionary.” He claimed no other university provided a student-led fund that specifically catered to student needs. McClean, however, said this was misleading. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Graduate and Professional Student Federation’s Emergency Fund “allows for better coverage of need,” she said. Many of the concerns brought up, McClean noted, have been appropriately addressed in the design of UNC’s Emergency Fund. Personal gain? During the Sept. 27. meeting, Jacqueline Robinson-Hamm, a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering, proposed an adhoc committee to examine other university programs in order to modify OneDuke’s structure. However, McClean alleged that Benning and other GPSC members quickly pushed for a vote instead of allowing further deliberations. In her view, this happened because Benning was slated to receive recognition from the Duke Credit Union at the Duke-Virginia football game that Saturday. “A better program could have been developed if a committee was allowed to study other programs, such as that at UNC, and present a modified proposal before the Oct. 18. meeting, which would have still allowed for approval before the first allocation session opened,” she said. Benning was recognized for the OneDuke message, in addition to Justin Losciale, candidate for a doctorate of physical therapy candidate, and Maurizio Martinovic, an MBA student at the Fuqua School of Business. Benning defended the OneDuke fund, saying the the approval process was not rushed and that students were given sufficient time to work out their concerns with him. “I presented the program for the first time Aug. 30, over a month before the football game,” he said. “The program was originally slated to be approved during our Sept. 13 meeting. The GA voted to delay the approval to the next week, Sept. 27th. The [General Assembly] had over a month—since they got meeting materials several days prior [to the first meeting]—to look at the program and review it.” When GPSC was not in session, Benning said he held multiple meetings with administrators and students who suggested ways to improve OneDuke’s strategy. For example, Benning said that during the planning process he and his team identified more than $40,000 in unused funds from inactive student groups. $20,000 of this went into guaranteed funding for the OneDuke fund while another $10,000 was set aside to be used for potential future OneDuke funding, contingent on budgetary approval. The remaining funds were used for other discretionary purchases, he explained. Administrative support The program was also vetted by President Richard Brodhead, Provost Sally Kornbluth and Larry Moneta, vice president of student affairs, Benning said. Officials from the Graduate School also said they were also receptive of OneDuke. “We think the OneDuke Fund is a wonderful idea,” wrote John Zhu, a senior public affairs officer in the Graduate School, in email. “[OneDuke] is a terrific complement [to current financial aid programs] since it provides funds for other areas of need such as clothes for interviews. We are glad to see our students have another option to help them with emergency needs, thanks to the GPSC’s forward-thinking initiative.” Last week, Kornbluth and the Office of the Provost awarded OneDuke an extra $10,000 on top of the original $20,000 that already guaranteed in funding. Benning said the program is expected to officially launch in November and is currently “ironing out the remaining details.” The program’s approval has also caught the eye of Duke Student Government, which caters to the undergraduate population, he said. “Now, DSG and other groups are considering doing the same thing because they realize that [an access fund] is a way to help their students,” Benning said. “So that’s really what the goal was—to create a model that other students could adopt all across the country and use student government fees to support students in ways that financial aid doesn’t.”

LEMURS from page 2 North Carolina. “The facility is beautiful and the volunteers and staff are just wonderful,” said sisters Barbara Akle and Helen Christy, who are visiting from out of state. “It looks like the animals aren’t stressed or anything, it looks like they’re being cared for and I love the idea that they have the forest around and they can also be free.” There will also be a commemorative exhibit in the Chappell Gallery of Perkins Library, scheduled to open Oct. 20. with a formal ceremony Oct. 27 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Lemur Center.

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Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle LOUISVILLE, Ky.—With the Blue Devils heading into a nationally televised matchup at the seventh-ranked team in the country, many figured the stage would be too big. But Duke found itself down just one score late in the fourth quarter. Since the Blue Devils had been gashed by big plays early in the season and were facing Heisman Trophy frontrunner Lamar Jackson, many thought Duke would struggle to keep pace. But the 35-point underdogs held the Cardinals to a season-low 24 points and had the ball for more than 37 minutes. “We believed from 15 minutes left in the first quarter,” sophomore linebacker Ben Humphreys said. “When we got on the plane, when we boarded—if you didn’t believe, you weren’t getting on the plane.” Despite all of the positives, the result at the end of the day was something all too familiar for the Blue Devils—a tough conference loss defined by a few game-changing plays that left them winless in ACC play. After the teams traded scores to open the game, the Blue Devils mounted a drive midway through the second quarter that chewed up nearly eight minutes. Duke could not get the big first down it needed near the red zone, and a 40-yard A.J. Reed field goal attempt sailed wide right to keep the Blue

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Devils down by three entering halftime. With an offensive mindset focused on ball control, Duke’s misfire was crucial in a game with fewer possessions. Nonetheless, the drive illustrated the team’s main strategy to stay in Saturday’s game. “When you have a freshman quarterback, the best defense against Lamar Jackson and the rest of that offensive talent is for them to watch us make first downs,” Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe said. Duke struggled on its first offensive possession out of halftime, and a quick three-

and-out gave Louisville the opportunity to get its offense humming. Blue Devil punter Austin Parker—who later left the game with an injury—appeared to pin the Cardinals deep in their own territory, before cornerback Jaire Alexander made multiple defenders miss en route to what looked like a back-breaking 90-yard punt return for a touchdown. But a block in the back penalty nullified Alexander’s touchdown, and all of a sudden, it seemed that things were turning in Duke’s favor. When Louisville took possession, the

Blue Devils appeared to make a huge play when Humphreys pried the ball loose from Louisville tight end Cole Hikutini, only for the referees to rule Hikutini’s forward progress had stopped. Instead of the offense taking over in the red zone, the Blue Devil defense was back on the field and yielded an 80-yard touchdown run to running back Jeremy Smith just a couple plays later. Defensive coordinator Jim Knowles’ unit showed how far it has come through seven games again Friday, but one lapse proved costly as it has so often in 2016. “We struggled a bit with the turnover being reversed because there was a boatload of celebrating,” Cutcliffe said. “The energy was firing everywhere and then you have to go gather your guys back up to get them back out there.” The series of plays in the third quarter paled to the heartbreak that awaited Duke late in the game. After using 8:53 on a 15-play, 75-yard touchdown drive to cut the lead to three, the Blue Devil defense made a key stop with the clock winding down and forced the Cardinals into a 46-yard field goal attempt. Excitement abounded on the Duke sideline as kicker Evan O’Hara’s attempt sailed wide, but the Blue Devils were done in by a flag on the play. Senior cornerback Breon Borders—who is among the nation’s leaders in career interceptions and pass breakups— See MOMENTUM on Page 9

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Top-5 thriller: Duke takes down UVA on Gibbons PK Winston Lindqwister The Chronicle With the regular season coming to a close, Duke entered Saturday night’s game against No. 5 Virginia looking to preserve its status as the only undefeated team in the ACC. And on Senior Night, it was fitting that the Blue Devils’ co-captain and best player delivered the only goal, powering Duke to its first top-five win of 0 the season. UVA In a back-andDUKE 1 forth thriller that lived up to the hype, the No. 4 Blue Devils shut out the No. 5 Cavaliers 1-0 Saturday night at Koskinen Stadium. Christina Gibbons converted on a penalty kick in the 63rd minute, and another superb effort from the Duke defense held Virginia scoreless for the first time this season. “You get in these games and you don’t want to be the one making mistakes,” Blue Devil head coach Robbie Church said. “We were really solid, but in a game like this you can’t be solid, you have to be spectacular. In the second half, there were parts that were really really special.” After both teams had several chances to score late in the first half and early in the second period, Duke (11-2-2, 6-0-1 in the ACC) broke through after sophomore Chelsea Burns made a move on the left side of the box. Virginia’s Betsy Brandon took Burns down to prevent the Blue Devils from getting another shot off, but the Cavalier defender was called for a penalty.

Gibbons took the kick and calmly found the back of the net for her fourth tally of the year. The Raleigh native has now notched a goal or an assist in her last five games, and along with classmate Toni Payne and junior Imani Dorsey once again generated several scoring chances for Duke. But Virginia (10-3-2, 3-2-2) showed why they entered the game with their own ACC regular season title aspirations. The Cavaliers—who averaged 2.6 goals per game entering the match—pushed forward in search of an equalizer, creating its best chance in the 84th minute. On a corner kick, Alexis Shaffer sent the ball toward Brianna Westrup, who fired a header toward the far post. But for the second straight game, Blue Devil junior defender Morgan Reid supported goalkeeper E.J. Proctor, deflecting the ball away while standing on the back line to preserve the shutout and extend Duke’s winning streak to five games. The Blue Devils have allowed just one goal in their last six contests. “We’re in a really good spot,” Dorsey said. “We have a lot of energy coming off this win and a lot of confidence. These are all really good tests.” Although Dorsey and company got the offense going early in the second half, Duke generated just two shot attempts during a defensive opening period—its second-lowest total of the season. The Blue Devils’ first shot came in the 37th minute, when Burns’ header off a corner kick was saved by Cavalier goalkeeper Morgan Stearns. Proctor made her own clutch first-half save just

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a few minutes later to keep Virginia off the board after a Cavalier player deflected a Duke clear. Meagan McCool was the beneficiary, dribbling for a one-on-one chance against Proctor, who came up with a body save to energize the Blue Devils near the end of the half. Duke got the final word in before halftime in the 43rd minute, but freshman Ella Stevens sent a shot wide right after Gibbons made one of her patented runs down the left sideline and fired a cross into the box. The Blue Devils continued pushing forward early in the second half, with Dorsey crossing a dangerous ball toward a cutting Payne that the senior sent toward Stearns.

The Virginia goalkeeper made one of her three saves of the game, however, keeping the game knotted before Gibbons bested her on the penalty kick. With Duke playing its best soccer of the year, the Blue Devils will look to take another step toward the ACC regular season title at No. 9 Florida State next Thursday. Duke has outscored ACC opponents 13-1 in its last five games. “[With] the ACC tournament coming up and the NCAA tournament coming up, this is when you want your playing at its peak,” Church said. “We still have some growth in us. I don’t think overall we’ve peaked, and it’s exciting. This is a great time of year.”

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Naughton leads Blue Devils to 10th top-20 win Riley Pfaff The Chronicle With a rematch against No. 3 North Carolina looming next week, Duke had to take care of business before focusing on its ACC rival. And after notching their ninth and 10th top-20 wins of the season, now the Blue Devils can do just that. No. 4 Duke came back to beat No. 17 Wake Forest 2-1 in ACC DUKE 2 play Friday evening WAKE 1 before dominating in a 5-1 win against No. DUKE 5 19 Old Dominion 1 Sunday. Senior Robin ODU Blazing completed the Blue Devils’ comeback against the Demon Deacons with the game-winner in the 68th minute, before graduate student Aisling Naughton fueled Duke’s rout Sunday with two scores. Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Sammi Steele and the Blue Devil back line were consistent throughout the entire weekend, yielding only two goals despite facing 15 combined penalty corner opportunities in the two games. “In the beginning, we really came out and played our game, kept the ball moving and created opportunities that we’ve been focusing on building,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin told GoDuke.com after Sunday’s win. “I’m really happy with the execution today

Jack White | The Chronicle Graduate student Aisling Naughton scored two goals in the first half Sunday as the Blue Devil offense exploded on the road.

but also the buildup and sustaining that throughout the game.” The Blue Devils (13-2, 4-1 in the ACC) weathered an intense challenge from Wake Forest (6-6, 0-5) after falling behind 1-0 in the first half, though they controlled possession with a 9-3 advantage in shots. But none of Duke’s attempts found the back of the net, and Demon Deacon sophomore Emily Adamson opened the scoring in the 34th minute, firing a rebound off her own shot past Steele to give Wake Forest the lead just before the end of the half. The Demon Deacons continued to apply

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the pressure early in the second half, peppering shots off three corners in the first 15 minutes of the period. However, the Blue Devil defense held strong as Steele made two of her four saves on the day to keep Duke in the game. “They pulled through and they kept it simple—they didn’t panic,” Bustin said. “They just did their job and gave us enough time and kept the score the way it was so that our offensive side could finish it and take care of what they had to take care of.” About five minutes later, Duke finally broke through on a sensational diving goal in the 56th minute by sophomore Rose Tynan,

who put in a feed from junior Ashley Kristen to knot the score at one. A reserve, Tynan is now third on the team with seven goals this season. “It was a beautiful goal,” Bustin said. “Not only just needing a goal to tie it up and get us at even, that was important, but I think it was a really exciting goal. Those guys worked really hard to get that ball down there and Rose just found a way to put it in.” After Tynan’s goal, the momentum swung in Duke’s favor, and the Blue Devils capitalized in the 68th minute. Naughton set up the goal with a penalty corner, and despite mishandling the ball at the top of the circle, Blazing beat Wake Forest goalkeeper Cat O’Connor to put Duke on top. “That happens at practice too, Robin scored on one of those as well, so in a way we practiced it,” Bustin said. “No panic, just stayed in it, got the ball on cage and everybody just improvised off the corner, and fortunately it was a goal for us.” The Demon Deacons tried to bring the pressure in the last two minutes of the game, pulling O’Connor to add to their attack, but were unable to even the score as the Blue Devil defense held firm. After a close game Friday, Duke made sure Sunday’s tilt with Old Dominion (6-8) would not be as dramatic. The Blue Devils dominated from start to finish against the Lady Monarchs, jumping out to an early 4-0 lead in the 27nd See FIELD HOCKEY on Page 9

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yards through the air and 144 more on the ground—and the Cardinals (5-1, 3-1) wasted no time, slicing through the Duke defense to cross midfield in five plays. The Blue Devil defense—which had employed a successful bend-but-don’t-break approach for most of the night—finally came up with an answer for Louisville’s speed, forcing a 46-yard field goal attempt. The attempt sailed far left off the foot of O’Hara, but Borders took out the kicker’s legs to keep the drive alive. From there, the Cardinal offense punched it in with a twoyard keeper from Jackson to put the game out of reach. “There’s no such things as moral victories in football. If you do that, you’re accepting a loss,” Duke redshirt senior defensive tackle A.J. Wolf said. “Did I think we played overall well?

Yeah, but you never want to accept defeat.” The Blue Devil defense contained Louisville’s offense well in the first half— allowing just three points in the final four possessions—but the Cardinals started the second half with a bang. After sophomore linebacker Ben Humphreys nearly forced a fumble deep in Louisville territory—officials ruled forward progress had been stopped—running back Jeremy Smith burst through an open hole and broke a few tackles, galloping for an 80-yard touchdown that put the Cardinals up 17-7. From there, Louisville got in its own way with clumsy mistakes on the two ensuing drives that prevented it from putting the game away. A fumble deep in Blue Devil territory and a key penalty followed by a missed 42-yard field goal kept the score at 17-7—and Duke’s hopes of an upset alive. “That’s our philosophy. They may be able to drive end to end, but when they get to the redzone, it’s a stone wall,” Humphreys said.

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extend the lead to four. Although Alexa Ostoich scored the lone goal for Old Dominion in the 32nd minute, Duke minute led by Naughton. snuffed out the Lady Monarchs’ nine penalty Duke outshot Old Dominion 8-3 in the first corners to take a three-game winning streak into half, with Naughton opening the scoring on a next week’s showdown against the Tar Heels. feed from captain Heather Morris in the 12th “It was a tough road going left and going minute before junior Ainsley Gill put away right of Durham but I thought the team an Alyssa Chillano pass in the 20th minute to handled it well,” Bustin said. “It’s a big deal to double the Blue Devils’ advantage. come away with some wins on any road trip, Theadded New York Times Naughton to the lead Syndication two minutesSales butCorporation going to two different destinations and 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 later with her sixthFor goal of the season coming away with two wins is important for us Information Call:before 1-800-972-3550 assisting Ashley Kristen in theSaturday, 27th minute to moving forward.” For For Release Release Monday, October October 17, 15, 2016 2016

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was whistled for roughing the kicker. In a game that featured numerous backbreaking plays that threatened to dampen a strong Duke effort, the penalty proved to be the final nail in the coffin. “I’m not complaining about the officiating at all. We hit the guy and that’s what you do, you call it,” Cutcliffe said. “I would like the rule makers to take a look at that or we’re all going to have to stop trying to block an extra point because I had a perfect angle and Breon did exactly what he was coached to do.” Although the Blue Devils stayed competitive on the scoreboard and played Louisville much tougher than the 35-point underdog they were on paper, the end result was nothing more than a moral victory. “You don’t just want to take one in the chin and back up,” redshirt freshman linebacker Joe Giles-Harris said. “You want to take one in the chin and press forward and deliver one right back in the chin.” Friday was another shot to the chin for Duke, but the team that takes the field in two weeks against Georgia Tech may be ready to deliver one of its own as it keeps improving.

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“That’s when the real players show up. They can drive from the 25 to the 25, but once they get to the 25, it doesn’t really matter. You got a stone wall, and we did a great job of that tonight.” Both offenses looked sharp in the early going before the defenses—aided by a light rain—settled in and turned the rest of the first half into a defensive struggle. Louisville marched down the field on the game’s opening drive, scoring in less than four minutes on a five-yard touchdown pass from Jackson to wide receiver Jaylen Smith. The Blue Devils responded with an equally impressive scoring drive that culminated in a nine-yard toss from Jones to tight end Erich Schneider and evened the score at seven. Duke’s first touchdown was set up by a 51-yard slip screen to sophomore T.J. Rahming. “We felt like that if we were deliberate and if we were smart about what we were doing, then we could have some success,” Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe said. “So, I don’t think it surprised anybody, but it certainly helped to have us score early against a team of that magnitude.” Duke now enjoys a bye week before its next ACC contest, a road tilt at Georgia Tech Oct. 29.

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his past week, both Michelle Kwan and Jason Collins visited Duke University to garner support for democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton. They are among a plethora of celebrities who have spoken publicly in favor of either major party candidate. The approach of Election Day merits consideration of the impact the “celebrity factor” has on modern day elections – a topic more relevant this cycle, as one of our candidates is indeed a celebrity himself. It seems undeniable that celebrities play a major role in political elections. The use of celebrities is attractive, relevant and visceral. A call by a celebrity for their fans to vote can produce net positive effects for candidates – mobilizing voters to support the candidate’s platform and indeed, to vote. Our society values these celebrities highly. It only takes one to look at how highly celebrities are paid to determine this value. Candidates utilize this reverence to gain support for their own campaign, and it can be effective. However, society’s value of celebrities should not necessarily translate to valuing these individuals’ political opinions. Some celebrities are well versed in political climate and nuance. Kwan, for instance, has worked for the state department and now the Clinton campaign. However, not all celebrities are

political experts or have any political experience. Often, they are far removed from the average voter on many salient issues (financial stability being the most readily called to mind). Instead, some celebrities influence voters by making them feel confident about a particular candidate for virtually no good reason besides their own vocalized support. The harm in this is two-fold. First, celebrities often speak on one to two topics in a candidate’s campaign, reducing the candidate’s platforms and limiting intellectual

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discourse. Second, some individuals are allowed to have an extreme role in our nation’s future. Celebrities may be beneficial to elections. They certainly encourage interest in elections and perhaps engage a larger amount of Americans in our nation’s future. This is commendable. However, “celebrityism” has extended beyond celebrities themselves. Today it is necessary for candidates themselves to have personality beyond their positions and a certain celebrity to their veneer. We are eager to know our candidate’s lives, as well as their platforms. Being relatable seems as important as being politically

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accomplished. Debates have become important for swapping sound bites rather than developing discourse on political issues. We do not stipulate that the modern day election is entirely different from past elections. Plato criticized democracy for promoting pandering by candidates for public support. Since democracy’s beginnings, candidates have always sought political support and catered to political opinion. Even recognizing this, we are trending to more extreme performance by our candidates. The broad-brushing techniques celebrities employ in their support and the tendency to aim for sound-bites are practices now used by our politicians. Though these tendencies are on trend with modern times, exacerbated by social media outlets, we should demand more of the future leaders of our country. Celebrity influence on this coming election may, for many, have a net-positive impact. Celebrity support will engage Americans and may increase voter turnout. However, our politicians must caution against mirroring such influence and behaviors. They must call to elevate intellectual discussions and seek to inform our country on their viewpoints, rather than simply be re-elected. Instead of simply dismissing this as idealistic, as a nation, we should rise to the challenge.

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n “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1,” Rufus Scrimgeour, newly appointed Minister of Magic and stick-up-his-butt type whose perpetual “stink face” would’ve allowed him to outshine any Thizzle Dance competitor, aptly sums up the s**tstorm that has befallen the Wizarding World, warning Harry, “These are dark times, there is no denying. Our world has perhaps faced no greater threat than it does today.” Little did I know the first ten times I viewed this cinematic masterpiece that this ominous line from a (debatably) fictional narrative would come to represent the very real darkness in which we Duke students find ourselves today. Indeed, our world (from the deepest recesses of Science Drive to the farthest corners of Devine’s Restaurant & Sports Grill) faces the same sort of darkness that troubles Scrimgeour. At this very moment, as we tidy up our resumes and upload our latest “Falling into Fall” Facebook albums, the War on Men (primarily straight, cisgendered ones)

April 21: DMP forces officially infiltrates all of Duke. Reportedly, no man, except the coveted “Gay BFF” is safe, from the wings of West Duke to the bowels of Bostock. As attempts to deconstruct phallic power increase, so too do rates of blue balls. May 7: Summer break is upon us. Alongside oversized sweaters and bean boots, students pack away their activism until next year. Patriarchal dismantlement is temporarily put on hold until after the last of the McKinsey paychecks are cashed. For now, externally-hanging genitalia remains safe. Sept. 8: As darty season kicks into full gear, so too do DMP operatives. Upon detonation of their weapon of mass destruction, masculinus toxicus eradicus, all hell breaks loose. For the first time since leaving the womb, large swaths of men are forced to grapple with an incredibly convoluted notion: male privilege can be, like, bad. Fraternity brothers of all tiers are caught texting their mothers, “Yo, dis true?” Oct. 4: As if making men think wasn’t enough,

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rages on all around us. Forget minding your P’s and Q’s, menfolk, for any reference whatsoever to your socially constructed manhood under the new regime will result in immediate castration. A source close to the chemistry tutor of a Triangle Area millennial whose ex-girlfriend attended a Duke summer program said that the group of “maleidentified” students leading the Duke Men’s Project (DMP) were coerced into doing so. The source tells us that the ex-girlfriend told her ex-boyfriend who later told his chemistry tutor who spilled the beans to our source that some sort of witchcraft involving tampons and Jack Rogers sandals was performed one cloudy summer’s eve in the presence of DMP leaders. Apparently, the students can no longer have a conversation without referencing the patriarchy. While many have already experienced firsthand the devastation that this war has brought to our otherwise peaceful campus, the following timeline details just how this crisis came to be. Feb. 29: The Duke Men’s Project, confirmed to be the work of female extremists, otherwise known as Feminazis, posts the first of many antimale messages on the propaganda machine they call a Facebook page. March 10: DMP hosts “Boys’ Night” and uses pizza, America’s favorite culturally-appropriated dish, to lure unsuspecting male prey into their castration den, casually suggesting that attendees destroy their man cards in order to discuss feelings.

DMP drops yet another life-shattering bomb on man’s best friend. The day that pornography is framed as potentially problematic, certain male factions and their ardent supporters decided that enough had been enough. Armed with Internet Explorer, rebel forces (various middle-aged and baby boomer alums), surged to comments sections with the intention of virtually tearing down their younger counterparts. We reached out for statements, but are still waiting on dial-up services of notorious DMP online opponents “DavidDukeIsBae” and “PatriarchalPete69” to connect. Oct. 7: In what many have called yet another brainwashing tactic, a key DMP leader releases an OpEd that further insists upon the existence of toxic masculinity on both Duke’s campus and beyond. While opposition groups plot their next counterattack, that same day the nation learns a new strategy, and perhaps one that can be employed against ruthless Feminazis: “Grab ‘em by the pu**y.” During these turbulent times, remember to keep each other safe, and never Slytherin to any Chamber of Secrets without explicit consent, lest you wish for your wand to be expelliarmused all the way to next Monday. This Monday millenial is warning you: hide yo internet history, hide yo jock straps, they castratin’ everybody out here.

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astor Andy Stanley famously said that churches should be the “safest place on the planet” for LGBTQ youth. If you were a queer Christian student unpacking your bags in your East Campus dorm room, would Christian ministry be the first place you turned? “Queer issues within Christian religious life at Duke,” said Pastor Katie Aumann, “are seriously overlooked.” At first, that statement struck me as bizarre. I know dozens of Christian students across faith groups, and I know dozens of queer students across social groups. But I don’t know many who identify strongly as both. The reason is not that those students

forces are operative as well. Unlike other cultural or identity centers on campus, Christian religious life at Duke is funded independent of the University. Local congregations support campus ministries that align with their denomination, and campus faith leaders must justify funding needs to partner congregations. “Groups become protective of their members.” Rev. Katie Aumann said. “We’re incentivized to maintain our group—not always to put on interdenominational programming or to help students find their best match. That also makes it difficult to have conversations that are theologically challenging.” “I tried to advertise a discussion group

ever in my life have I heard sexual assault take such a central role in politics. I wish it were because we as a nation have decided to address the epidemic of violence against women. I wish it were to root out the causes that lead to one in five women experiencing sexual assault. I wish it were because we recognize the humanity of rape victims, that we understand their pain and want to create a better world for them. That, sadly, is not the case. Donald Trump in the now viral video from 2005 bragged about sexual assault. It took the media about 24 hours to settle on using the term “sexual assault,” but they got there eventually. Let’s be clear: grabbing women by their genitals or kissing them without consent is sexual assault. It is dehumanizing,

statements of other top officials wanting to ban abortion even in the case of rape. But the Democrats are not doing much better. For the party that claims to be the standard-bearer for victims of sexual violence, there has been a stunning dismissal of Bill Clinton’s conduct. The chances of being falsely accused of sexual assault is between 2 and 8 percent, on par with other violent crimes. I’ve said the chance that Trump has been falsely accused of sexual assault numerous times—by his wife, a business partner, a 13-year-old girl, and now the many women describing his groping them— is slim. His recent comments substantiate much about the kind of predatory person he probably is. I have to, then, apply that same logic to Bill Clinton. There is likely truth in the charges Willey, Jones, and Broaddrick have

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don’t exist. Half of LGB individuals identify as Christian. Nor is the reason that Christianity and queerness have little to do with each other. Their shared history is extensive. And campus religious groups, much like their denominational affiliates, are a theological mixed bag. For some students at Duke, however, some basic truisms persist. “It can be hard to be out and open in Christian spaces at Duke,” junior Tommy Klug said. “With so many LGBTQ people who have been burned by the church, it can be uncomfortable to talk about faith in queer spaces. It can feel like they are mutually exclusive identities.” That division breeds complacency in Christian groups. Klug noted that “when these identities grow separate, fewer LGBTQ students are open in faith communities. And as a result, groups don’t feel the need to address inclusivity.” “When Christian groups are siloed from one another, there isn’t an added push to challenge ideas about identity. It’s easy not to pay attention to issues that affect students who aren’t in the room—the irony is that exclusivity is what pushed out those students in the first place,” Klug said. Groups become insular beginning with recruitment. Many students become involved with campus faith communities similar to those from home, but outreach is also a factor. “It’s a huge problem that less affirming groups are more aggressive with outreach. It’s hard not to notice Campus Crusade for Christ or InterVarsity as a first year,” Klug said. “Smaller, more liberal groups tend to rely heavily on that home-tocollege pipeline, but if you just stroll past marketplace, it can be easy to find yourself somewhere that is a poor fit.” One of Duke’s largest Christian communities, the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, recently announced a national policy to fire leaders who support same-sex marriage. As a result, LGBTQ students may not find the most affirming groups—if they decide to search for a group at all. For other students, it can be difficult to move between groups. “Taking the first step to explore other religious life communities was made difficult,” senior Kristen Larson said. “Most people had already settled into a group after freshman year. I added myself to listservs and came to events, but I felt like an intruder.” Self-selective recruitment and the formation of close-knit communities certainly function to silo faith communities. That reality is inevitable. But other

about LGBTQ identity within the church, but our group’s leader was really opposed,” stated an anonymous member of another large, conservative Christian organization on Campus. “Whether it was to prevent students from skipping regular worship to attend, or whether it was because of the subject matter, it wasn’t healthy.” That dynamic poses a real challenge— especially for identity and issue-based Christian communities. It can be nearly impossible to reach a critical mass without interdenominational outreach, and the burden falls disproportionately on those who are on the margins of the church. But denominational siloing matters affects more than identity groups seeking community—it affects everyone within the church. When interdenominational and interfaith spaces are made rare, ministries don’t engage with one another. Competing ideas about faithful discipleship go unchallenged. Personal relationships are foregone. Students seeking healthy Christian community are denied the agency to find a spiritual home. And silence—silence on issues that matter, silence that is decidedly unChristian— becomes harder to break. Spurring progress and inclusion within traditions that continue to promote theology irreconcilable with our commitment to love our neighbors as ourselves requires more than earnest prayer—it requires us to talk to one another. When we are brave enough to broach conversation, our better angels have never failed to shepherd us toward inclusivity. The challenge is not winning the debate—the challenge is starting it. Ask your group to host an interdenominational worship, to promote joint events, and to partner with cultural and identity centers. Ask a stranger to worship, and ask your community how it can become an even more welcoming neighbor. Ask your faith community to open up— to lean into discomfort and challenge assumptions about faith. Ask about BLM or same-sex marriage, and ask how you can better engage with those who disagree. Ask your clergy if they are PRIDE trained, and ask how they might better affirm queer members in their group. Before we can love our neighbors, we have to meet them. Extending Christian community can be tricky. But it begins with asking this: how am I helping to move religious life forward at Duke? Tanner Lockhead is a Trinity senior. His column, “not straight talk,” runs on alternate Mondays.

terrorizing, and destabilizing. Men who commit sexual violence against women tend to know their victims. For women, that means these perpetrators are their boyfriends, friends, bosses, and co-workers. Trump’s remarks, made just minutes before stepping off of the bus to shake hands with the very woman he talked about wanting to assault, are many women’s worst nightmare. That men we know secretly speak terribly about us or want to have sex with us when we have no interest. That they see us as less than their equal. In the political tidal wave that followed, many Republican leaders like John McCain rightly condemned Trump’s endorsement of sexual assault and his flippant explanation of it being “locker-room talk.” Democrats seized on the moment to make a show of how the Democratic party is the party for women, the party that cares about victims of sexual violence. Trump’s defenders, like Senator Jeff Sessions who denied that forcibly grabbing women’s genitals constituted sexual assault, faced widespread ridicule. For a moment, I had some hope that our country was learning how to better respond to sexual assault. We were finally taking it seriously. I lost much of that hope when Donald Trump held a press conference hours before the second presidential debate. He invited the women who had accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct: Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, and Paula Jones. Wiley accused Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting her during his first presidential term, when she says he grabbed her breasts and genitals and forcibly kissed her. Jones claimed that as Governor, Clinton exposed himself and made sexually aggressive comments to her. Clinton later settled with Jones for nearly a million dollars. Broaddrick claimed that as Attorney General, Clinton forcibly raped her in a hotel room. Trump trotted these women out not to initiate a real conversation on how we have treat women who accuse powerful men of misconduct, but to deflect the conversation from Trump’s own misogyny in a “he-abusedmore-women-than-I” contest. The Trump campaign used these women as political pawns. Conservative news sites like Breitbart, which routinely questions women who come forward with sexual assault accusations and labels survivors as “rape-hoaxers,” completely flip the script when it comes to Clinton. Suddenly, it’s an utter outrage that survivors of sexual assault aren’t believed. It’s notable that the Republican Party Platform for the first time ever explicitly states that university handling of sexual assault “must be halted before it further muddles this complex issue,” despite convincing evidence to the contrary. The Republican Party has very little authority to speak on issues of sexual violence between the conduct of their nominee, the content of their party platform, and the repeated

levied on Bill Clinton. If the Democrats want to claim the moral high ground and portray themselves as the party that will protect women and fight against sexual violence, then they need to take the Bill Clinton problem seriously. True, he isn’t running for president. But he may be in the White House, in a position of power which he could use to exploit more victims. The Democratic Party needs to stop labeling Clinton’s actions as philandering and instead label them as they are labeling Trump’s conduct: sexual assault. The Democratic Party also needs to stop attacking the women who have come forward against Bill Clinton. For the last week, MSNBC and other liberal news sources have questioned why it took Broaddrick so many years to come forward, why she signed an affidavit denying the rape, and how her political motivations (her support for Trump) might be the impetus for her to lie. In doing so, they are engaging in classic victim-blaming. Sexual assault survivors don’t always have their stories straight. Sometimes it can take years to come forward. Sometimes it can be easier to deny what happened than to go against a powerful man. I thought we learned these lessons from Cosby. The women coming forward making charges against Trump have been given significant airtime and are afforded, as they rightly should, the presumption of telling the truth. Clinton’s victims should be afforded the same treatment. I’m a survivor of sexual assault, something I have not been quiet about in my work on campus and in writing for the Chronicle. I founded Duke Support, Duke’s sexual assault survivor support group, and I am a co-director of Breaking Out, a photography campaign to showcase the voices of survivors. I talk to and hear from rape victims almost every day. Unless you have lived through what we have, you will never understand the kind of pain that sexual violence inflicts on people’s lives. It destroys, corrupts, maims, and takes lifetimes to recover from. Politicians right now are not helping. Both parties should stop using victims as political pawns. I caution observers of this election to be sensitive in the kind of information they put on social media, as victims have to live through this election too. We’re watching, and the ways that media talks about survivors, even survivors that some believe not to be credible, has a serious impact on the decisions of survivors in coming forward. When talking about sexual violence in this election, let’s remember survivors and their pain. This isn’t just a campaign issue or a talking point. These are people’s lives. Dana Raphael is a Trinity senior. Her column, “problematic people doing problematic things,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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