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The Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative recently launched StudioDuke, a new program designed to help arts students develop and pitch their projects to the professional arts industry. At the beginning of each fall semester, StudioDuke will open its application for arts submissions. Students will submit a short summary and description of their project as well as the project itself. These projects can draw from any field of art—from fine arts and film to animation and music composition. A StudioDuke leadership team will then select students from the applicant pool whose project is ready for professional development. The program will then assign each student an alumni mentor in the same field as their project. Once the mentor and student decide the project is ready for a professional pitch, StudioDuke will pay for the student’s travel needs in order to pitch their idea, including places such as Hollywood. “[StudioDuke] came out of the fact that I was noticing we were spending so many resources on translation for technologies and did not see the same amount of

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energy being put into students’ creative ideas,” said Kip Frey,professor of the practice of public policy and law and interim director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. “I was thinking about how we might provide a pathway to a professional outcome to students who write screenplays or do music.” Frey worked with Provost Sally Kornbluth, Amy Unell—director of arts engagement and partnerships for Innovation and Entrepreneurship—and the alumni association to turn his idea into a reality. A gift from alumnus Clifford Chanler, Trinity ‘82, provided funding for the first stage of StudioDuke. Many Duke alumni were recruited by Frey to become mentors for the program. The alumni he contacted lived across the United States and were enthusiastic to be a part See ARTS on Page 16

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons DukeEngage announced a program in Cochabamba, Bolivia, but cancelled it less than two weeks later.

DukeEngage just set a record for its shortest-running program of all time. On Sept. 29, the service program announced two new sites for Summer 2018—Cape Verde and Bolivia. But less than two weeks later, organizers decided to cancel the Bolivia trip because of uncertainty surrounding the site location and housing arrangements for students. “We were very excited about it, and really about a week ago as we looked at some of the details, we just felt like we needed another year of planning,” said Eric Mlyn, Peter Lange executive director of DukeEngage and assistant vice provost of civic engagement. The Bolivia group project originally intended to have participants work with the organization Bridges to Prosperity to construct a suspension bridge near Cochabamba, Bolivia and would have been led by Kevin Caves, a clinical associate in the department of surgery, along with David Schaad, professor of the practice and associate chair in the department of civil and environmental engineering. Caves explained that Bridges to Prosperity, which focuses on building pedestrian bridges in the

DukeEngage announces new program sites, cancels one of them less than two weeks later By Claire Ballentine Towerview Editor

developing world, is undergoing some reorganization and had not identified an exact location in Bolivia for the program to take place at yet. However, DukeEngage felt that it was important for these details to be in place by now in order to give students as much information as possible during the application process. “We had communicated with DukeEngage, and they were trying to work with us, but it exceeded their risk tolerance level,” Schaad said. Schaad leads the organization Duke Engineers for International Development out of the Pratt School of Engineering. DEID was planning to partner with DukeEngage on the project, and despite DukeEngage backing out, will still travel to Bolivia this summer to construct the bridge. About 10 undergraduates are expected to go on the trip, along with a site coordinator and technical mentors who will probably be Duke faculty members. Schaad explained that students participating in the program will likely apply for See DUKEENGAGE on Page 4

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Perkins or BC? Students share their favorite places to study By Katherine Berko

However, Kaufman does not enjoy all of the library’s spaces—she prefers not to visit the Link because she constantly bumps into As Duke finally gets its first bout of fall friends there. weather, the semester’s midterm season is While junior Jasmine Syed, said she does moving full-speed ahead. But where do most not avoid all of Perkins, she does avoid subDuke students choose to study during this basement floor L2 because she once saw a stressful period? And what areas do they cockroach there. choose to avoid? First-year Bob Ding said he steers totally Perhaps unsurprisingly, many clear of Perkins because the atmosphere is undergraduates said they prefer to work on too quiet for his taste. Instead, Ding chooses the first floor of Perkins Library. to work in the Bryan Center at one of the “I enjoy being around others when tables there. studying since [it makes me] feel more “Usually no one uses the tables so you [can] motivated myself to study,” said junior Owen take over the entire place,” Ding said. Smith, who prefers to study at at Perkins. Ding also explained that the BC has a “Even though the first floor can get loud much warmer temperature than Perkins, sometimes, there is usually an area in the so it feels cozy to work in. Yet, despite the back that I can move myself to if the main coziness, Ding said he could never fall asleep area gets too crowded and noisy.” because the background noise prevents him Sophomore Alexa Eyring, echoed from snoozing. The building’s buzz also Smith’s sentiment allows Ding to feel by saying that she comfortable when too enjoys working I never study off campus. he works on group on the first floor of projects, since he Perkins because she There is a phenomenal knows nobody will likes bumping into library right on campus. be annoyed by him friends and finds the speaking aloud. background noise Kaufman, on the OWEN SMITH other hand, said she motivating. TRINITY JUNIOR Other students avoids the BC because she enjoy studying at the finds it less aesthetically library because of its pleasing than the other aesthetic. study spots she has to choose from. “My favorite places to study on campus Unlike the BC, the Student Health Center are the Gothic Reading Room [in Perkins] attracts students because of its aesthetics. and the fourth floor Bostock [Library] “[One of] my favourite places to study Tower Room because they are both on campus is the Student Health Center beautiful and comfortable spaces,” said because the interior architecture is so nice,” senior Julia Kaufman. sophomore Jeffrey Li said. “The building is Senior News Reporter

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beautiful and not gloomy.” Li also frequents the study rooms at the 300 Swift apartment complex because he likes how clean and new the amenities are. Meanwhile, first-year Anya Parks said she often studies at the French Family Science Center because of its perk of having Dolce Vita, a coffee shop, upstairs, from where she often buys a wrap before settling down to study for hours. Parks also said she makes it a point not to study frequently in her dorm, since it’s “a space for play, not work.” Smith said he too prefers to avoid his dorm room, as well as his common room, since the tables are not ideal

and he enjoys studying around people. Despite the fact that the Von der Heyden Pavilion may seem like everyone’s favorite study spot, Eyring cited it as her least favorite place to study, since empty chairs there are a rare find. “It’s too dark in there, and I’m always tempted to go and buy overpriced food or coffee,” she said. As far as students who venture off-campus to get their work done, Kaufman was the only interviewee of the seven the Chronicle spoke to who set foot off of Duke’s turf. See STUDY on Page 16

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GPSC discusses plan to ban smoking Poliovirus treatment on campus by 2019 at meeting Tuesday mechanism revealed in new Duke study HEALTH AND SCIENCE

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Duke faculty have come closer to pinpointing how their poliovirus treatment for glioblastoma works, opening up new avenues for treatment across different cancers. With a 20 percent three-year survival rate in patients, the poliovirus treatment has gained widespread notoriety for its position as one of the few promising options for glioblastoma. The Duke team behind the poliovirus is current gearing up for more clinical trails to test the therapy on the heels of receiving “breakthrough” designation by the Food and Drug Administration. Using their latest findings, researchers may now have a better understanding of what existing therapies might be combined with the poliovirus treatment for maximum efficacy. “We have shown that oncolytic poliovirus can make a ‘cold’ tumor—with no immune response—‘hot’ in mouse tumor models,” said Smita Nair, an associate professor of surgery. “This opens up new, exciting avenues for testing oncolytic poliovirus in combination with immune checkpoint blockade, including in patients who do not respond to [just] immune checkpoint blockade.” Noble beginnings In 1994, Matthias Gromeier, professor of neurosurgery, first modified the poliovirus, swapping part of its genetic code with that of a common human cold virus. This engineered hybrid, called PVSRIPO, was designed such See POLIOVIRUS on Page 4

Members of the Graduate and Professional Student Council met Tuesday and discussed a proposed ban on smoking on campus. Led by James Davis, assistant professor of medicine and medical director of the Duke Center for Smoking Cessation, the Duke Smoke Free Initiative is seeking support from campus stakeholders for a proposed University policy that would ban all forms of combustible tobacco at Duke by 2019. E-cigarettes and chewing tobacco would remain

Adam Beyer | Contributing Photographer James Davis, assistant professor of medicine, led a working group to propose recommendations on smoking.

permitted under the proposal. “I’m a little uncomfortable with creating nanny states...but smoking is kind of in a different league,” Davis said. Davis emphasized that his working group’s recent review of research suggested that 67 percent of smokers will die of an illness caused by their smoking. Secondhand smoke can also cause heart and lung disease, he noted. Although Duke has already moved to limit some smoking on campus, it has not joined other universities in instituting a complete ban. Previous attempts at instituting such a policy have run into challenges from Housing and Residence Life, administration and a lack of student backing, Davis said. “If this is going to go through, now that I’ve looked at the politics behind it, it will require students to get behind it,” Davis said. This time, however, the working group—which includes junior Kushal Kadakia and clinical research specialists Walid Salah and Gopi Neppala—has sought to involve administrators, student and employee groups early. Already they have received positive backing from President Vincent Price and Chancellor for Health Affairs A. Eugene Washington, who implemented similar programs at their previous positions, Kadakia said. The working group conducted a survey of 2,800 students and faculty, finding that 11.4 percent of undergraduates, 7.9 percent of graduate students and 1.7 percent of faculty surveyed smoke cigarettes. Among international students, the rate was 15.6 percent. Programs at other schools have reduced the smoking rate by 50 percent, Davis said. Under the proposal, community members would enforce the policy by handing smokers they see cards that list resources for quitting. Davis said part of the plan is to expand resources freely available through the University as well. “Fifty years from now, we would like to see more Duke See GPSC on Page 16

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DUKEENGAGE FROM PAGE 1 independent DukeEngage funding. He noted that hopefully the project will take place next year if they can work out the details in time. This project’s work toward constructing a bridge is especially important because mobility access is a significant issue in the developing world. “People being able to access medical care, crops and schools becomes a significant issue,” Schaad said. “They’re crossing rivers that could be treacherous.” Mlyn explained that he also hopes the program will be able to take place next year when DukeEngage has more clarity about the site conditions. He noted that confusion among students

about the cancellation was minimal. The at-risk youth in underserved communities DukeEngage office wrote to those who had on the island of Santiago by partnering already begun an application for the Bolivia with local nonprofits. project, informing them of the change. Led by Lamonte Aidoo, Andrew W. However, another Mellon assistant press release was not professor of romance sent out. studies, students “I’m disappointed. will volunteer at a I love working with summer program Pratt, they bring a for children who great sensibility to have faced neglect, our work,” Mlyn Number of DukeEngage group abuse, trauma and said. “But I feel domestic violence, good about making a programs offered this year, 14 Mlyn explained. of which are domestic decision now rather Participants will than later.” lead activities like One new project will still be unveiled painting, sports, crafts and dance in this year in Cape Verde, a nation of 10 addition to helping prepare meals and volcanic islands off the coast of northwest teach English with the children. Africa. The program will focus on helping The Cape Verde project aims to help

POLIOVIRUS FROM PAGE 3 that it could not cause polio in humans. Six years later, Gromeier shared his discovery that the virus locks onto brain tumor cells which are subsequently destroyed by the body’s immune system, raising the exciting possibility of its use for brain cancer treatment. The vision he and the rest of Duke’s Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center shared has come to life in the years since, with initial data on treatment success first reported in 2015. In 2016, the FDA granted “breakthrough status” to Duke’s poliovirus therapy, facilitating the remaining process toward approval for treatment of glioblastoma. Nevertheless, Nair said this does not guarantee that the FDA will approve the poliovirus therapy and that years of research remain. The researchers wish to continue improving the virus as well as conduct more lab research regarding treatment of other common cancers. For eventual clinical trials of other cancers, the researchers

students become global thinkers, understand different perspectives and communicate across cultures to promote social justice. In addition, it strives to teach participants how poverty and inequality intersect to impact a country’s families. In total, 38 DukeEngage group programs will be offered this year, with 14 based in the U.S. and 24 taking place internationally. The programs in Ecuador and Kolkata, India will not take place this year, though they may return in the future. In addition, the Tanzania program focusing on literacy through photography that runs every other year is back on this summer. About 420 students will be accepted for the group programs in total, and there are forty available slots for independent candidates, who design their own project with the help of a community partner.

are exercising caution, making sure they are truly ready before they move forward. From here, the Duke researchers will continue to explore ways to combine poliovirus therapy with other cancer drugs for increased effectiveness. How it works Cancer cells in a tumor are typically well-adapted to avoid detection and interference from the immune system. To circumvent this limitation, the group injects the poliovirus at the tumor site to elicit a one-two punch against the cancer, Nair explained. With the first punch, the virus links up with a protein known as CD155, which is found abundantly on the cancer cell’s surface. It next replicates inside the cell, creating copies of itself that then destroy the cell as they break out looking for other cells to infect. This death-by-virus aspect of the therapy kills many tumor cells directly. As the viruses emerge, they break the cell open, spilling proteins and other cell ‘guts’ that alert the immune system to the See POLIOVIRUS on Page 16

Courtesy of Duke Photography Matthias Gromeier, professor of neurosurgery, first modified the poliovirus in 1994.

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for catalinaâ€™s time Photography exhibit in the Franklin Center, page 7

eno magazine Art and the environment, page 6

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Will Atkinson ..........................tandoor Nina Wilder ........................etta james

Georgina Del Vecho.........i don’t know Dillon Fernando ..........................pain Christy Kuesel ..................a battlefield Jessica Williams .........................a lie Likhitha Butchireddygari........ puzzles

on the cover Touché Amoré at Motorco Music Hall, Sept. 26. Photo by Alexandra Bateman.

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I’m 19 years old, and I’ve never been in a relationship. I suppose that isn’t particularly earth-shattering. My generation is one of MTV dating shows and AIM chat rooms (now a mere remnant of the past), a cohort reared by the internet and inundated with its progressive notions of relationships. We’ve rebranded “hookup culture” with the creation of Tinder and embraced its casual nature. It’s completely normal not to be in a long-term, monogamous relationship, or never to have dated at all. And yet that doesn’t make me any less bitter when a couple strolls in front of me on the sidewalk, holding hands and exchanging smiles. It doesn’t lessen the sharp sting I feel when I watch a film and the main characters fall in love or when an especially romantic Etta James song comes on. Heartache and longing consume me with an unrelenting fervor — I want a Sunday kind of love, too. Boys weren’t really interested in dating me in middle or high school. In hindsight, I realize their inattention was a gift — God, who has the emotional bandwidth to deal with relationship drama and the throes of adolescence simultaneously? — but at the time, it hurt me immensely. I wanted so badly to love someone. Wes Anderson films and sappy TV shows had molded me into a hopeless romantic, a girl who wasn’t very pretty or popular but regularly daydreamed about the first boy she’d ever date and methodically crafted mixtapes for her potential suitor. I thought being in a relationship was the highest form of emotional fulfillment I could ever feel with another person. But the longer I daydream and construct false, yet always so lovely, realities, the more afraid of dating I become. The motions aren’t unfamiliar to me: I’ve exchanged phone numbers

and kisses, I’ve gone to dinners and sat through movies, I’ve (remorsefully) been on Tinder. I’ve even fallen in love, as onesided and haphazard as being in love can possibly be. But I’ve never had a person with whom I can share everything — my smallest thoughts (you’ll never guess what I saw on the way to the grocery store today) and my biggest worries (am I a good person?), my corporeal form, my romantic inclinations and the mundanities in between. Somehow, though, those indications of a relationship are intensely familiar. The way I love my family and my friends — fiercely, without reservations or apologies — is curiously close to what I assume it’s like to be romantically

staff note entangled with someone. I know my loved ones like the back of my hand; I can name their quirks and mannerisms and hopes and dreams as easily as I can recite the alphabet. While my friends and I are not sexually intimate, we fashion our own kinds of intimacy, from sharing difficult secrets to cooking meals together to crying with each other when life feels impossible to live. I’ve never had a thought or experience that I felt I couldn’t share with one of my friends, and they’ve only ever encircled me with warmth and support. My loved ones form the backbone of my existence. I keep imagining and searching for this Other Half, whom I’m supposed to

love like I’ve never loved anyone before, with whom I’ll fashion an entirely secret world of inside jokes and memories and moments that’s unseen to everyone but us. It’ll be special and intense and fulfilling, unable ever to be fully captured or replicated. But why am I only allowed to feel this way about one person? I don’t consider myself a half, but a composite — a complex mosaic of everyone who’s ever been proximate to me, irrevocably changed (for better or worse) by the friendships I’ve had. Each of my friends and I have our own tiny universe between us, a shared history that only we are privy to, and that’s okay — love doesn’t need to be withheld or reserved for it to be meaningful. So I’m scared for what my first relationship might hold, but I’m not entirely unknowing of what giving myself to another person will be like. And, as painful as it might be that I don’t have anyone with whom I can sing romantic songs or hold hands as we stroll, I have an entire circle of people who are willing to share their existences with me. Their experiences and thoughts and wishes and worries are mine, too, a load that I carry without feeling encumbered or burdened but, rather, fulfilled. (After all, as Bojack Horseman says, “All we have in this terrifying world are the connections we make.”) A life well-lived, I believe, is one spent cultivating meaningful friendships and spreading my love as far as it can possibly go. I think it’s time I stopped daydreaming and moodily listening to love songs. Yes, I’ve never been in a relationship, but my loved ones are enough. Every day I choose them, and every day they choose me — perhaps that’s exactly what I’ve wanted all along. —Nina Wilder

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Eno Magazine addresses environmentalism through a literary lens By Georgina Del Vecho Features Editor

If you’re not a graduate student — or a graduate student in the Nicholas School of the Environment, specifically — there’s a good chance you may not have heard about its leading publication, Eno Magazine. Founded in 2011, Eno Magazine is an annual arts and environment magazine that is run entirely by the Nicholas School community. “I think [the magazine] is one of those things that kind of binds the Nicholas School community together,” said Alex Rudee, a student in the Masters of Environmental Management program who has previously submitted work to the magazine. “Although anyone can submit to the magazine, it’s really by and for this school.” Although the magazine focuses on environmental issues and is therefore well-suited to the environmental community at Duke, its influence does not stop there. The magazine accepts and encourages submissions from people all over the world, including those within the greater Duke and Durham communities. “The beauty of Eno Magazine is that it’s not just Duke students and staff, it’s not just the Duke community — it’s everyone and their mother can submit,” said Caitlyn Cooper, a co-editor of the magazine and a student in the Masters of Environmental Management program. “Obviously [the Duke community] is a big part of our audience because it surrounds us, but

we’ve had general Durham community members submit, we’ve had people from other states submit, and it’s interesting because it allows us a lot more flexibility in creating the magazine to not have to focus on one cohort.” Additionally, the magazine hosts several events in Duke and Durham throughout the year to encourage people to express themselves artistically and to get in touch with the nature around them. This semester, the magazine has hosted an “Art in the Gardens” event and will sponsor a Beer and Paint Night at Fullsteam Brewery. The magazine also encourages participants to submit art inspired by or created at these events. “Our goal is to provide the supplies to get people to create some type of natural or nature-inspired art,” Cooper said. “I think people forget to take time out of their day for hobbies like painting and writing and photography, and [the events] kind of give people a scheduled time for them to work on it if they want to.” Art serves as an important form of communication for the environmental community, and one of Eno Magazine’s main goals is to inspire and connect the larger non-science community to the environmental issues around them. “When we were in professional communications class and we learned about op-eds, we were told use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs because people have short attention spans,” Cooper said. “And I think if a picture says a thousand words,

Sujal Manohar | Recess Photo Editor The Nicholas School’s Eno Magazine hosted Art in the Gardens Sunday at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens.

having a magazine full of beautiful nature photos really is going to grab people’s attention a lot easier than a scientific or news article can.” However, submissions from members outside of the sciences and environmental communities are highly encouraged. Nature has been the basis for art in various forms throughout history, rising to particular prominence with the transcendentalist movement and visible today in magazines like

National Geographic. Even though an understanding of nature’s chemistry and complexity is interesting, it’s not necessary to appreciate it. “Science by itself is not necessarily persuasive to a lot of the population,” Rudee said. “But what does persuade people are stories and images and videos, things that you can really relate to. … It’s really just a lot more of an emotional See ENO on Page 10

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‘For Catalina’s Time’ explores culture of Mexico’s Costa Chica By Jake Parker Contributing Writer

Upon entering the main gallery of the John Hope Franklin Center, I found myself feeling slightly overwhelmed. People milled about, entering and exiting a conference room adjacent to the exhibit I’d come to see. At the edge of the gallery, two people conversed about construction. And yet, amid the varied clamor, my mind was elsewhere, in a place I had neither been to nor heard of before: a region of Mexico called the Costa Chica. It is the setting and subject of Sandra Luz Barroso’s photographs now on display in “For Catalina’s Time.” The exhibit, which also includes ten works of graphic art, arrived at the Franklin Center in mid-September and runs until Dec. 6. The Costa Chica is known as a hub of Afro-Mexican culture, and “For Catalina’s Time” is the product of anthropologist and filmmaker Luz Barroso’s years of field work in the area. Her photographs, taken between 2004 and 2005, capture a range of experiences: a young girl lounging in a hammock, a frenetic, celebratory procession and fragments from the life of Catalina Noyola Bruno, the exhibit’s late namesake. A brief description of the exhibit, displayed in a corner of the gallery, explains that “For Catalina’s Time” is a means of completing the work begun on “Artemio,” a 2017 documentary by Luz Barroso. Her film follows a young boy— Catalina Noyola’s great-grandson— who was born in the U.S. and travels to the Costa Chica with his mother, who

doesn’t have a visa. The documentary screened earlier this month as part of the North Carolina Latin American Film Festival. Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, director of the festival and a curator for Latin America at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, said “Artemio” ultimately led to “For Catalina’s Time” coming to the Franklin Center.

Mexico,” briefly described the backstory of the region and the development of communities of African descent. Lewis explained that when Spanish conquistadors invaded the region, they brought African slaves and servants with them. “They were cowboys, they were agricultural workers, and Spaniards used

Will Atkinson | Contributing Photographer Luz Barroso’s exhibit “For Catalina’s Time” is on display in the John Hope Franklin Center until Dec. 6.

“We were really happy when engaging for the film festival with … this film about Artemio, we found out that [Luz Barroso] had also developed this exhibit,” Rojas-Sotelo said. In a recent interview, Laura A. Lewis, professor of anthropology at the University of Southampton and author of “Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of ‘Black’

them in their continuing quest to control indigenous peoples on the coast, so that’s how [the Costa Chica] became a very large kind of center of Afro-Mexico,” Lewis said. Lewis added that anthropological interest in the Costa Chica grew considerably during the 1980s when the Third Root project began researching Mexico’s African descent population.

“There were a number of Mexican anthropologists who started working in the region in the 1980s and then that became sort of the beginning of the current wave of interest in the AfroMexican population,” Lewis said. Among the scenes of contemporary life captured in Luz Barroso’s vibrant black-and-white photographs, there is a symbol of the Costa Chica’s history: a horse’s head carved out of wood. It is a segment of the artesa, an overturned wooden trough or canoe, which people dance atop to narrative-entwined music known as sones de artesa. In “Chocolate and Corn Flour,” Lewis writes that the popularity of artesa music dwindled in the 1940s and 1950s. In later years, the remaining vestiges of artesa music, found in places like San Nicolás, were then documented and promoted by outsiders, who often profited without reciprocating. “As traditions long vanished from from people’s day-to-day lives became folklorized, San Nicoladenses thus grew more cynical about those who professed to act on their behalf,” Lewis wrote. “In part this was because cultural promotion did not speak to the community’s social and economic concerns. Furthermore, many community members—including the musicians—saw themselves giving away cultural capital.” However, “For Catalina’s Time” is not voyeuristic or exploitative. Instead, the exhibit, along with “Artemio,” speaks to the contemporary concerns at play in the See CATALINA on Page 10

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Duke Players’ ‘Once on this Island’ is a musical ‘story within a story’ By Alexandra Bateman Contributing Writer

This semester, Duke’s oldest theater group is diversifying their repertoire in more ways than one. Senior Sophie Caplin is directing Duke Players’ first musical, the award-winning “Once on this Island,” performed by an all-black cast. Based on a book by Trinidadian author Rosa Guy, the one-act musical is a “story within a story.” In it, village storytellers comfort a girl during a tumultuous storm with the tale of Ti Moune, a peasant who falls in love with a member of the French-descendent grand homme, a group of island aristocrats. Guy’s novel and the resulting musical draw inspiration both from Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” and Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” but the cast assured that the longstanding friction between the peasants and the grand homme has roots deeper than classism. “It’s not only about economic divisions or racial divisions,” sophomore Casey Pettiford, who plays Ti Moune, said. “It’s also cultural — what the peasants believe versus what the grand homme believe — [and] ideological differences — how they view life, how they view love.” According to Caplin, these themes would not have been as prevalent or effective had Duke Players opted for a more traditional, whitewashed cast. “The show is a lot more powerful if you have an allblack cast because, first of all, it’s written for an all-black cast. And the prejudice between the two classes is a lot stronger,” Caplin said. “The all-black cast shows the tension between people within a race and the tension of the French ancestry [of the island].” Though “Once on this Island” can be adapted for allwhite casts or mixed-race casts, Caplin was committed to casting the performance as it was intended. Despite her commitment, the Theater Studies department, which funds and advises Duke Players performances, was wary. “The way it’s really intended to be [performed] is with an all-black cast,” Caplin said. “I thought, if we’re going to do this, we’re going to do it correctly. When we first

Courtesy of Theater Studies Duke Players’ first musical of the year, “Once on this Island,” features an all-black cast and runs in Brody Theater Oct. 21 to Oct. 29.

brought [the show] up to the department, they were kind of like, ‘Oh, you won’t be able to find enough people.’” Fortunately for Caplin, Duke students proved the department wrong. Hordes of talented performers showed up to Duke Players’ open auditions, enough that Caplin described them as coming “out of the woodwork.” “Choosing shows that require more diverse casting allows people to showcase the really diverse talent we have at this university,” junior Lulla Kiwinda, who plays Erzulie in the production, said of the importance of maintaining the traditional all-black casting. “I think the most important thing is to just have the show because once the show was chosen, people came [to audition]. People can’t [audition for] a show that doesn’t exist.” “Once on this Island” opens just in time for Parents’ Weekend, and director and cast alike said it would be a show the whole family can enjoy, one with energetic music and dance and unique set design. According to both Caplin and Music Director William Harris, Trinity ‘17, “Once on this Island” has a “groovy,” sonically eclectic soundtrack that merges Caribbean and West African rhythms with samba beats and syncopation. “If you’re arguing with your parents, if you’re lovesick,

if you feel powerful, if you’re feeling sinister, if you’re in love — no matter what you’re going through — you can pick a song of out of this show and just have at it,” firstyear Zhuri Bryant, who plays the role of Andrea in the performance, said, echoing Harris’s enthusiasm. The “bare boards and passion” set design emphasizes the communal nature of storytelling and brings it to the forefront of the performance. Due in part to the intimate nature of Brody Theater where the performance is housed, Caplin chose to construct important set pieces with the bodies of the actors themselves rather than from stationar y material. “A lot of it is people working together to make the stor y,” Caplin said. “Ti Moune’s house, for example, is made out of people.” Br yant promised that “Once on this Island” is a play that ever yone will glean something from, even if that “something” is different. “You can sit and watch, but you can’t walk away without feeling like you had a mini conversation with yourself and the people who were on the stage,” See ONCE on Page 10

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‘Bob’s Burgers’ season eight merges realism with absurdity By Sarah Deris Contributing Writer

In its simplest form, the lovable Fox comedy “Bob’s Burgers” focuses on working-class hero Bob Belcher (H. Jon Benjamin) and his family’s everyday struggles, from financial to relational. The show takes a lighthearted approach in navigating such challenges, allowing audiences to connect with the Belchers’ everyday lives. Awash with toilet humor and juvenile antics, “Bob’s Burgers” never fails to draw laughter from Tina’s (Dan Mintz) schemes to seduce love interest Jimmy Jr. and remains relevant with Gene’s (Eugene Mirman) well-timed pop culture references. The show returned Oct. 1 for its eighth season with the premiere “Brunchsquatch.” The episode transcends the bounds of the show’s typical animation style by showcasing the artwork of over 60 different fans, ranging from claymation to anime-inspired. The episode follows three drastically different storylines: the kids begging for a dog, Bob deciding to serve brunch in wake of competition from Jimmy Pesto and Louise (Kristen Schaal) assisting Felix Fischoeder (Zach Galifianakis) in hiding from his brother during a high-stakes game of hide and seek, each scene change inducing whiplash with the abrupt shifts in animation. “Bob’s Burgers” has a flair for the absurd and the unexpected, yet it retains a sense of realism. Although the Fischoeder

siblings partake in a seemingly ridiculous game of hide-and-seek spanning 20 days, Felix loses the game despite managing to avoid his brother for 19 of those days. With that, “Bob’s Burgers” reminds its audience of the perpetual grapple between life’s chaos and reality. Perhaps on a darker note, the annual game of hide-and-seek serves as an allegory for death. As the Fischoeder brothers age, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to evade death, a reality we all eventually face. The show keeps with its tradition of social musings, poking fun at the millennial obsession with brunch as Bob

decides to open his restaurant during brunch hours, serving up “Topless Breakfast Burgers” and bottomless mimosas. Although famed brunch blogger “The Dame” enjoys the food, the so-called “Brunch Skunks” take advantage of the endless “Mom-osas,” neglecting to order food and drunkenly ravaging the restaurant. There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason to the animation shifts, the changes not particularly flowing with the storylines, yet they leave the audience anticipating which manifestation of the Belcher family will materialize next. The animation shifts do serve to distract from

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The eighth season of the animated sitcom Bob’s Burgers premiered Oct. 1 with “Brunchsquatch.”

the somewhat lacking storyline, which presents fewer laugh-out-loud moments and a tamer plot than previous episodes. In the past, the show has featured eccentric scenarios including Bob’s lifethreatening debacle with landlord Mr. Fischoeder in “Wharf Horse” and “Food Truckin’,” as Tina casts aside her awkward persona — which seems to mirror our own weird adolescent psyches — and dons an alter ego that showcases both her confidence and maturity. Nevertheless, the sudden and often surprising animation changes highlight the cast members’ great talent and ability to carry the show, their distinctive and familiar voices bringing each representation of their respective characters to life without diminishing the show’s quality. Mr. Fischoeder’s shifting depiction, as he stomps out of the restaurant and into the Belchers’ basement to search for his brother Felix (who is hiding in the meat freezer), seems almost to caricaturize him, adding to the humor of the ludicrous yet amusing nature of the game and the storyline itself. In the end, the Belcher siblings do not earn the privilege of owning a dog, despite taking especially good care of Felix for 24 hours in their basement. To some, such an ending may seem as if the kids’ efforts — and therefore the episode — was pointless. And, to an extent, it was. But in a deeper sense, See BOB’S BURGERS on Page 10

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Beck’s signature weirdness is missed on new album ‘Colors’

By Aaron Paskin Contributing Writer

It’s been clear for many years now that Beck can do whatever he wants. Since his breakout hit “Loser,” the musical Renaissance Man has explored sounds from funk to folk, art rock to Americana. With every left turn, Beck’s oddball lyrics and trippy textures have followed: there was the sample-heavy, genre-bending “Odelay” with its unexpectedly refined strangeness; the dreamy and unsettling folk detours of “Mutations” and “Sea Change”; and the psychedelic funk rock explorations of “Guero” and “The Information.” And then, in 2014, Beck revealed the optimistic and serene side of his “Sea Change” style with “Morning Phase.” The record was his most beautiful work to date and famously triumphed

over Beyoncé’s self-titled LP for Album of the Year at the 2015 Grammys. Now, after countless rumors and false starts, Beck has returned with his latest left turn, the aptly named “Colors.” Beck released “Dreams,” the lead single to “Colors,” nearly two and a half years ago. The track is a rock song at its heart, but its layers of new wave synths and drum machine beats transform it into his grooviest song in years. Beck himself explained that the song “started out as a heavy garage rock thing and became much more of a dance — some kind of hybrid.” This creation process is crystal clear in the song’s final iteration and is representative of the rest of the album. It seems like Beck set out to make a rough-around-the-edges rock epic, fell in love with dance music somewhere along the way and merged the two with stellar production.

Several songs on “Colors” fully embrace the dance style of 2010s alternative rock. The opening title track combines heavy synths with an ocarina riff and trippy vocals; it couldn’t be more colorful. Single “Up All Night” is a lively pop song with an EDM-esque piano melody, and “Square One” is just as lively with its sparkling textures and foot-tapping beat. The album is a perfection of the alternative dance rock movement that has gained traction this decade through Coldplay’s “A Head Full Of Dreams” and bands like Atlas Genius and St. Motel. Meanwhile, other tracks on the album reveal their rock roots a bit more clearly. “I’m So Free” stands out as the most guitar-heavy track with riffs reminiscent of Blur’s “Song 2.” But this is about as ’90s as this record gets. As opposed to the sloppy, almost grunge style of Beck’s early

albums, these songs are clean-cut and intricately produced. The reggae feel of “No Distraction” is not a forced theme but rather a masterfully applied flavor to this otherwise straight rock song, and “Dear Life”’s slightly off-kilter guitar solos call back to Beck’s natural strangeness. Speaking of natural strangeness, “Colors” falls short in an important way: it’s not quite a “Beck album” in the traditional sense. All of these songs are fantastic. I can’t name a weak one. But most of them are missing Beck’s signature weirdness: the crazy samples, the completely out-there lyrics. Aside from die-hard fans, most listeners, enjoying the vivacity of the rest of the album, wouldn’t think twice about this void if it weren’t for the 2016 single “Wow.” This fluteSee BECK on Page 10

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Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile collaborate on ‘Lotta Sea Lice’ By Ashley Kwon Contributing Writer

As the story goes, Courtney Barnett, the Australian singer known for her sarcastic wit, and Kurt Vile, former guitarist of Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs, met each other on the music festival circuit. As they talked about their taste in indie rock music in their drowsy, mumbling voices, they felt like they found their soulmates. They began to exchange songs written for each other and, last week, finally released an album together titled “Lotta Sea Lice.” The story of Courtney and Kurt seems like the tired plot of a romantic comedy — although they are not actually dating each other. But their new album is a masterpiece full of fantastic stories and nonsensical dialogues between the two artists. Barnett and Vile’s songs are different from typical collaborative songs between male and female singers, which tend to be filled with either dramatic breakups or variations of “I love you.” The artists paint vivid scenes together and depict their strong connections as musicians. “Only Everything,” which Vile wrote

for Barnett when he first suggested collaboration, is a perfect example of such unique representation of their partnership. The artists sing about their love of “high pitched ring,” “high decibels” and the beautiful scenery, with “hair-flag waving,” that makes them forget about their troubles. Those details tell the audience about each artist’s respect for the other’s musical sensibilities rather than simply repeating phrases about desire and heartbreak. The song becomes more genuine and appealing because the collaboration is based on true feelings. The unexpected twists in the lyrics of the songs also make the album unconventional. Like most of the songs in the album, “Let It Go” begins like an awkward and superficial conversation between strangers. Barnett starts with the kind of question that we ask when we meet a stranger and can’t think of any topic to start a conversation: “What time do you usually wake up?” But the song becomes more than just a mundane encounter as the artists jump from talking about their routine to “technicolor rainbow horror sweet dreams.” They do it

without changing the tone of their voices, as if juxtaposing the words “horror” and “sweet” is normal. As we try to find the connection between “Eastern standard open G” and “Salty water curls my hair,” we feel like we are eavesdropping on a conversation between aliens who speak our language but do not have our common sense. With the unexpected flow of the conversation, we try to make sense of the lyrics and guess what will come out next. We interact more actively with the song, unlike when we listen to romantic comedy soundtracks, knowing what will happen next. Each song’s unique narrative prevents the album from slipping into boredom. The song “Blue Cheese” might have turned out to be a common breakup story, beginning its narrative with a guy meeting a girl named Tina who “suppl[ies] reeferina.” However, it skips all the intermediate details about the romance and conflicts and jumps to the guy “calling the cops on” her. The song does not have any information about who the guy is and what made him report Tina to the police. But it is like an unfinished detective story for the audience to

have fun filling in the missing plot and details. With such an unusual way to tell what could have been a tragic but a commonplace movie romance, the artists surprise and impress us again. While building such fantasy worlds through their lyrics together, the artists maintain their characteristics as musicians; Barnett lists nonsensical sentences in her typically sardonic fashion, while Vile sings in his usual murmuring voice. However, the artists do not hesitate to try different styles with their guitars, ranging from “Blue Cheese,” which echoes country music, to “Fear Is Like a Forest,” which resembles dreamy, psychedelic rock. In doing so, the artists perfectly meld their characteristics into a new musical style. The songs in “Lotta Sea Lice” begin with common narratives and dialogues that we might overhear at a café or a subway station. But Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile never disappoint us with their creative twists in these stories and conversations. The album is a strange and colorful work that intertwines the musical styles and personalities of two very distinct artists.

CATALINA FROM PAGE 7 Costa Chica, especially those centering on migration. The metal engravings were done by the founding members of a collective of artists from Costa Chica called the Centro Cultural Cimarrón, Talia Weltman-Cisneros, professor of spanish at the University of North Texas, said. “I think Sandra’s objective or goal in combining her photography and her film and these engravings were to make a creative space or visibility for Afro-Mexican artists and Afro-Mexican

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cultural production to be seen and celebrated,” Weltman-Cisneros said. The fact that the exhibit landed in North Carolina is also culturally significant. The state has become a hub for immigration from the Costa Chica. Weltman-Cisneros worked closely with Luz Barroso to bring the exhibit to the Franklin Center for this very reason. “I thank Duke University that allow[ed] me to share the work, which is a process that began in anthropology and ends in the cinema that have been ten years of work and for me this exhibition is part of what happened to be able to make the movie ‘Artemio,’” Luz Barroso wrote in an email.

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it explores the sphere of existential nihilism, in that perhaps certain ventures do not necessitate positive outcomes and such initiatives merely distract from the pointlessness of life. “Bob’s Burgers” continues to be a fan favorite — its simultaneously unrefined yet witty sense of humor almost contradicts the show’s tendency to share wisdom with its audience and uncover universal truths that can be applicable to our own experiences. Granted, “Bob’s Burgers” may be just another cartoon on a long list of adult animated shows that seek to analyze life’s higher purpose through situational comedy. But the Belchers’ ordinary family dynamic (and its knack for the extraordinary) continues to appeal to a broad audience, meaning “Bob’s Burgers” is here to stay — at least for another season.

Bryant said. If you’re looking to impress your parents with an authentic, cultural campus experience, consider taking them to “Once on this Island.” With catchy, eclectic music and captivating dance sequences choreographed by Professor Ava LaVonne Vinesett (and a surprise ending I’m not at liberty to divulge), Duke Players’ premier musical performance is sure to be memorable. Even if you’ll be spending Parents’ Weekend alone with your projects and papers, “Once on this Island” is a performance you don’t want to miss. “Once on This Island” opens Oct. 21 and runs through Oct. 29 in East Campus’s Brody Theater. Admission to performances is free.

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ENO FROM PAGE 6 impact that you can get in an art magazine than in a scientific journal.” The magazine is now accepting submissions for its 2018 publication, and is looking forward to holding its annual contest at the end of the fall semester. This year’s contest will be a writing contest, different from previous years’ photo competitions. “We changed it to a writing contest because we have no shortage of photo submissions, but we do have a shortage of poetry and short story submissions,”

BECK FROM PAGE 9 sampling, bass-heavy, “giddy up giddy up” jam is classic Beck. ( What other 47-year-old could pull off “It’s irrelevant, elephant in the room goes boom / Standing on the lawn doin’ jiu jitsu / Girl in a bikini with the Lamborghini shih tzu?”) “Wow” sticks out like a sore thumb in the middle of “Colors” in the best way

Cooper said. “I don’t necessarily think that there are a shortage of writers but I think there are a lot of writers who are timid about their writing, whereas it’s easy for people to recognize if they took a great photo.” Even if you’re not an artist or an environmental science major, participating in events hosted by the magazine or picking up a copy can offer a brief respite from the hectic pace of ever yday college life. If you don’t have time to get off campus and explore nature, sometimes looking at the photos or reading the essays contained in Eno Magazine can be just as beneficial.

possible, and unfortunately it teases us with how wonderfully weird the rest of the album could have been. Ne ver t h e l e s s , B e ck h a s proven a fe w t i m e s b efore t h a t h e do e s n’t n e e d to f u l ly em br a ce h i s we i rd s i de to m a ke a g re a t re cord , a n d on e c a n e a s i ly a d d “Co l ors” to t h i s l i s t . Hi s 1 3 t h a l bu m i s h i s m o s t f u n a n d con s i s ten t i n a t l e a s t a de c a de , a n d i t i s rem a r k a bl e t h a t , a l l t h e s e ye a rs a f ter “ Lo s er,” B e ck i s s t i l l f i n d i n g n e w w ays to exc i te a n d i n t r i g u e .

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Panthers limp into Durham with 2-5 record and without their starting QB By Michael Model Assistant Blue Zone Editor

Entering the weekend without its starting quarterback, Pittsburgh looks to continue its recent success against the Blue Devils and gain its first victory against a Power Five opponent this season. The Panthers head to Durham with hopes of jumpstarting their offense and returning home with their first conference win. Although Pittsburgh is just 2-5, it has played one of the toughest schedules of any team in the nation. Three of the Panthers’ losses have come against top-20 opponents—then-No. 4 Penn State, thenNo. 9 Oklahoma State and then-No. 20 N.C. State—and the other two defeats occurred on the road at Syracuse and Georgia Tech. Although Pittsburgh has struggled offensively thus far, averaging a mere 23.0 points per contest, the Panthers have scored at will against the Blue Devils since they joined the ACC in 2013. Pittsburgh has scored more than 48 points per game and holds a 3-1 record against Duke in that span. “They can beat you in the kicking game, they can beat you with their offense and they play outstanding team defense,” Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe said. “It’s going to challenge all three phases of Duke football.” After losing former All-ACC running back James Conner to the NFL during the offseason, Pittsburgh took another hit last week when starting quarterback Max Browne suffered a season-ending shoulder injury. Sophomore Ben DiNucci took the reins following Browne’s injury. In his first career

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has gained an average of 113.7 rushing yards per contest this season, but the Panthers were unable to get the job done against Georgia Tech and Rice, rushing for 37 and 69 yards, respectively, during those matchups. Duke has held its opponents to a mere 3.4 yards per rush in 2017, and cornerback Mark Gilbert thinks the Blue Devils have the right pieces to shut down Pittsburgh Saturday

It’s clear and simple: The NCAA let North Carolina get off disturbingly easy for its academic fraud scandal—with no athletics penalties. After years of investigation, the Division I Committee on Infractions concluded that North Carolina did not violate NCAA rules by offering “paper courses” to the general student body as an “orchestrated effort to benefit studentathletes.” These classes didn’t exist, but kept athletes eligible to play. So-called “studentathletes” were steered toward classes in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies that never met and only required a paper at the end of the year. Some of these athletes were writing at elementary school levels and still earning A-minuses. After the scandal broke, one former North Carolina professor told me the university had to hire a person to drive in a golf cart from classroom to classroom every day to make sure athletes’ courses indeed existed. This isn’t about bashing North Carolina. What they did was wrong, and they’ve admitted that. Rather, what is most concerning about the scandal is the dangerous precedent the

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Qadree Ollison (37) is a powerful running back built similarly to the Florida State players Duke struggled with last week, but he has been inconsistent this year. start Saturday against N.C. State, the Wexford, Pa., native completed 19-of-32 passes for 170 yards. Although DiNucci has not had an abundance of playing time, turnovers have been an issue for the sophomore, who has thrown three interceptions and three touchdown passes. In addition to being a work in progress in the passing game, the Panthers have been unable to find consistency on the ground. Led by 6-foot2 redshirt junior Qadree Ollison, Pittsburgh

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Duke heads out for season-ending road swing By Merle Nye Contributing Reporter

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EJ Proctor has shut out two-thirds of the opponents she has faced this year and posted the easiest clean sheet of her career Sunday when Miami did not take a shot.

Duke is coming off another dominant win to add to its streak and has blown out several teams its next opponent has lost to. With postseason play only three games away, the biggest challenge for the fourth-ranked Blue Devils may be how to avoid overlooking Boston College. After denying Miami a shot on goal in a 3-0 victory on Senior Day at Koskinen Stadium last Sunday, Duke will seek to extend its schoolNo. 4 Duke record 14-game win vs. streak Thursday against Boston Boston College at the College Newton Campus Sports Complex in Chestnut THURSDAY, 7 p.m. Hill, Mass., with kickoff Newton Campus Field set for 7 p.m. If the Blue Devils can replicate the defensive clinic they put on Sunday, goalkeeper EJ Proctor would move into a tie for the third-most shutouts in school history with 30.

“That’s probably the one we were most proud of just because they didn’t get any shots,” Proctor said of the Blue Devils’ dominant defense Sunday. “We have that taste of, okay, it’s possible if the backs work really hard.... That’s what we always aim for, but it definitely helps that it worked out last game.” Duke’s rigid defense has recorded a shutout in two-thirds of its games this season and has been the backbone of its streak. The run of success includes commanding victories against Florida State and N.C. State, two teams that Boston College has lost to in the last month. Despite this, the Blue Devils (14-1-0, 7-0-0 in the ACC) will not be expecting a cakewalk in Newton. “Going on the road in the ACC is hard as hell,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. In addition to the hostile crowd, the playing surface will be similarly unfamiliar for the Blue Devils. “It’s different going from playing on grass fields all year long and then going to a turf field,” See W.SOCCER on Page 13

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Tales from the ‘HBC’: Spurrier set to be honored By Mitchell Gladstone Sports Managing Editor

In the college football world, there are plenty of iconic head coaches—names like Nick Saban, Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh are among the elite in their field. But only one man has earned the title, “Head Ball Coach,” and he has quite the personality to go along with the nickname. And for all Steve Spurrier has done as a player and coach, the roots of the Head Ball Coach sit squarely in Durham, where he spent six seasons as the offensive coordinator and then head coach at Duke. “If I had not gotten hired at Duke University, I wouldn’t have had a coaching career,” Spurrier said in a phone interview Tuesday. “Everything that’s happened to me in coaching is because of Duke. My son went there, he loves Duke—we all love Duke University.”

During Saturday’s contest with Pittsburgh, the Blue Devils will honor the soon-to-be College Football Hall of Fame inductee with a presentation at the same Wallace Wade Stadium where Spurrier once roamed the sidelines. The 1966 Heisman Trophy winner at Florida quarterbacked the San Francisco 49ers for nearly a decade before ultimately retiring and starting his coaching career. After jumping between four different teams from 1978-1985, Duke came calling for Spurrier in 1987, giving the then-42-year-old his first head coaching job. He headed for Florida just three seasons later in December 1989, racking up five SEC Coach of the Year awards and a national title in 1996 with the Gators, before he spent two years with Washington in the NFL and 11 seasons at South Carolina. Many coaching peers, like current Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe, cannot say enough Chronicle File Photo

Steve Spurrier was the head coach at Duke for three years from 1987-89 before moving on and winning a national championship at Florida.

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After the Blue Devils beat North Carolina 41-0 on the road in 1989, they took a famous photo in front of the scoreboard at Kenan Stadium.

NCAA FROM PAGE 11 NCAA has set with its policy that academic fraud is out of its jurisdiction. By doing so, it encourages other schools to follow in North Carolina’s path—just because they know the NCAA can’t do a thing about it. The NCAA has established that it “defers to its member schools to determine whether academic fraud occurred.” Essentially, if the individual school says it meets its own expectations, it can justify any sort of clearly fraudulent classes like these. “While the university admitted the courses failed to meet its own expectations and standards, the university maintained that the courses did not violate its policies at the time,” the NCAA’s statement said. It makes sense that the NCAA shouldn’t be allowed to meddle in universities’ courses— it would be overreaching if it could rule on whether the rigor of a class was enough. I understand why the NCAA would want to stay away from that. Unless, of course, the classes give extra benefits to athletes, which they clearly did. And that’s what’s most despicable about the NCAA’s precedent. The committee said that athletes didn’t get extra benefits. Come on. There is written proof in an email that an academic advisor collaborated with an athletic advisor to arrange a grade for a women’s

basketball player. Read for yourself: African and Afro-American Studies Department Administrator Deborah Crowder: “As long as I am here I will try to accommodate as many favors as possible. Did you say a D will do for [basketball player]? I’m only asking that because 1. no sources, 2. it has absolutely nothing to do with the assignments for that class and 3. it seems to me to be a recycled paper. She took AFRI in spring of 2007 and that was likely for that class.” Women’s basketball academic counselor Jan Boxill: “Yes, a D will be fine; that’s all she needs. I didn’t look at the paper but figured it was a recycled one as well, but I couldn’t figure from where! Thanks for whatever you can do.” Granted, the player was reportedly already done with her playing time and just needed to graduate—but would she really have received this special favor if she wasn’t an athlete? According to NCAA bylaw 16.02.3, extra benefits are defined as any sort of “special arrangement by an institutional employee...to provide a student-athlete...a benefit not expressly authorized by the NCAA legislation.” The NCAA makes the argument that the classes were not an extra benefit to athletes because they were offered to the general student body. That’s valid, but the rest of the students did not have athletic staffers asking for certain grades on their behalf— and academic administrators seeming to

about a man who has accomplished about as much as anyone in the sport. “He influenced a lot of us who are my age, and I’m not that much younger than him,” Cutcliffe said. “He was a trendsetter in throwing the football—’fun n’ gun’ or whatever you want to call it. And he was a competitor of ours, the long battles between Tennessee and Florida, but his taunting of us at Tennessee stirs a lot of memories. “He’s a Hall-of-Fame player, he’s a Hall-ofFame coach, which is a rare breed, so I’m proud that Duke is taking the step to honor him and he’ll have a good time here this weekend.” Spurrier will spend the weekend in Durham with players from all of his Blue Devil teams— both from 1980-82 as an assistant and 198789. Although Duke sputtered to just 14 wins

during his initial stint, then-Blue Devil athletic director Tom Butters made the decision to bring Spurrier back. And in only three seasons, it paid off handsomely. “Let me tell you what, the ‘87 team, we went 5-6 and five of the six losses were by seven or less points,” Spurrier said. “The ‘87 and ‘88 teams were close in talent with the ‘89 team, it’s just that the ‘89 team went 6-1 in conference play and won the ACC.” His last two seasons in Durham, Spurrier picked up ACC Coach of the Year honors, and in 1989, he led Duke to seven consecutive victories— capped by a drubbing of North Carolina at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill and a team photo on the

cooperate. It’s ridiculous to believe that all 3,100 of the students who took these classes had their grades arranged for them. By failing to punish North Carolina for allowing basketball staffers to essentially request certain grades for players, the NCAA has enabled other universities to pass athletes

who should not be eligible. If the NCAA truly wanted to protect the sanctity of amateur collegiate athletics as it claims, it needed to take a stand against clear special benefits for student-athletes. Otherwise, these paper classes might be getting Xeroxed.

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despite their frequent use of reverses and other creative plays. “It can be a challenge,” Gilbert said. “They’re good at it, that’s what they do. So that’s definitely something we want to get down throughout the week—recognizing it and being able to recognize it Saturday.” Defensively, the Panthers have also been ineffective in defending the pass. Pittsburgh’s secondary has allowed opponents to gain 268.6 yards per contest in the air, which puts it at 111th in the nation out of 130 FBS teams in that category. This should be good news for the Blue Devils. After throwing for 305 yards against Northwestern, quarterback Daniel Jones has failed to return to his end-of-2016 form, when he boasted a 10-to-1 touchdown-tointerception ratio in his final seven games. Jones has surpassed the 200-yard plateau just twice in Duke’s last five contests, and Pittsburgh’s loose pass defense may be just what he needs to get back on track. The Panthers’ inability to stop the ground attack has also been an Achilles’ heel of sorts through their first seven games. Pittsburgh has allowed its opponents to rush for more than 176 yards per contest and should be fearful of the Blue Devil backfield. Redshirt freshman Brittain Brown and senior Shaun Wilson spearhead a unit that averages 190 rushing yards per game. “You look at the run game defensively, we did some great things, and when you talk about three yards or less runs, we did a lot of great things,” Pittsburgh head coach Pat Narduzzi said at his weekly press conference. “It’s a game of inches.”

field in front of the scoreboard. “[The Tar Heels] were terrible that year,” Spurrier said. “We beat them 41-0 and it should’ve been 65-0. We threw away 20 points easily down around the goal line.” But one of the longest winning streaks in program history began earlier that season with a remarkable 21-17 home upset of No. 7 Clemson. Of all the games from his time in Durham, that one still sticks out in Spurrier’s mind. “We were behind Clemson 14-0 at half and it was a rainy, rainy day,” Spurrier said. “The few students that came to the game went back to the dorms. So we came out for the second half and there was hardly anybody there. All of a sudden, some stuff started happening, the scoreboard said 14-14 and they all came streaming back in. “We ended up winning 21-17 and they tore the goalposts down, so we had a good crowd, no crowd and then a big crowd.” Cutcliffe and Spurrier never met as SEC head coaches, but the two talked before Cutcliffe took the Blue Devil job in 2008, and Spurrier encouraged the move. Although the pair will always be connected by Duke and the SEC, it is a missing piece of memorabilia that may be the deepest thread between the current and former Blue Devil head coaches. “One thing I wish I had was the chin strap I got from him when he was a collegiate player at Florida,” Cutcliffe said. “My brother [Paige] played with Spurrier at Florida, so I had his chin strap. And wouldn’t you know that somewhere along the way, it got lost. Not very smart on my part.”

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ast week, President Trump reaffirmed his explicit desire to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, despite his own party’s repeated unsuccessful attempts at repealing and replacing the Obama-era legislation. Through an executive order, Trump has eliminated government subsidies that were meant to ensure lower deductibles for low-income insurance holders. This blatant attack on the Affordable Care Act has highlighted the current president’s extreme proclivity for issuing executive orders—a political mechanism that he in the past has criticized Obama for supposedly overusing—to bypass congressional gridlock. While checks-and-balances as well as limits on executive power remain essential political concerns in the current Trump era, today we turn specifically to the contentious subject of his executive action: healthcare. In the U.S., current discussions around health care policy are burdened by partisan agendas as well as the politicizing of an industry that many of our elected representatives only interact with superficially. With a stark divide between the two major political parties, the current health care debate often revolves around blind loyalty to party platforms with little input from outside sources, including political constituents. While the Senate Health Committee held bipartisan hearings on the subject earlier this year, subsequent partisan politics indicates the testimony presented at these hearings was

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widely ignored. Perhaps the best illustration of such political loyalties at work is the recent Republican effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare (synonymous with the Affordable Care Act, which one-third of Americans do not realize). Despite warnings from Senator John McCain that healthcare reform should remain apolitical, Senate Republicans pushed ahead with repealing the “Democratic” healthcare act. As a result,

Editorial Board Senator Susan Collins, Senator Lisa Murkowski and Senator McCain voted against their party’s proposed bill despite sharp criticism. Soon afterwards, the Graham-Cassidy attempt was struck down with similar criticisms of failing to reach across the aisle to produce a more palatable alternative to ObamaCare. In response to such anti-party vetoes by Republican senators, President Trump even tweeted that GOP congressmen should avoid being labeled the “Republican[s] who saved ObamaCare”. Discussions around health care reform should be about more than political agendas. Debates about each policy’s merits should rest on more than unsubstantiated political ideology; instead, it should

build upon research with expert testimony and town halls holding more weight than pressure from party donors. For voters on either side of the aisle, the predictable congressional gridlock on health care should be frustrating and unacceptable. When the lives and health of average Americans are at stake, all of us have the responsibility to demand more compromise and compassion from our representatives. According to one report, the U.S spends exorbitantly on health care due to “substantially higher prices and more fragmented care delivery that leads to duplication of resources and [poorly coordinated specialists]”. Consequences of this wasteful spending pattern include wage stagnation, personal bankruptcy and budget shortfalls that “crowd out other forms of social spending that support health”. In light of these realities, the health care debate in this country should center on solutions, forcing compromise to reach a better equilibrium. Ultimately, our politicians must remember that politics is about more than just financing re-election campaigns; clearly, there are representatives on both sides of the aisle who do realize this is the case. As voters, we should push for health care experts to be heard by those in Congress who will listen. Hopefully, during the midterm elections, those who refuse to stand steadfast for more robust policy around healthcare will be swept away by the current.

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his column has always been about seeking big answers: not by hunting them like game with the worn set of questions we’re used to philosophizing with (what is the meaning of life?) but instead by sitting down for a moment and letting them come to us, with smaller, subtler questions (what are your thoughts on doughnut holes?) Let’s test the limits of that strategy. What can we learn

Mihir Bellamkonda SMALL QUESTIONS about humanity from color? The easiest approach here would be to simply ask people their favorite color, but for better or worse, the Shyamalan in me demands a twist. What then, are people’s least favorite colors? As is my developing habit, I conducted my interviews on the bus, where there’s a great diversity of commuters just a bit too tired to think too much about their answers. With my subjects in a relatively compact area, it becomes an ideal polling ground for humanity. The answers were fairly predictable. Quite a few people expressed a distaste for browns, greys, and your beiges of various sorts and shades, citing their close association with the soulless glare of florescent lights and tinny faxmachine hum of the college students’ collective corporate cubicle nightmare. Another, interestingly opposing faction objected to the ostensibly headache-inducing neon family: electric blues, highlighter yellows, lime greens. I found this polarization so intriguing that I originally planned to write the column about our paradoxical displeasure for both the plain and pandaemonic. But then I got an answer that changed my mind, defied the duality. A smiley, bright-eyed freshman responded promptly and with great certainty that his least favorite color was the poetically specific “milky pink.” He defended his distaste at length, arguing that milky pink elicited that same sense of revulsion in him as many people feel when they hear the word “moist.” Alright, time for a radical subject shift. Stay with me. When I was a kid, my family went to the beach every summer. Now, the idea of my family’s annual pilgrimage to an island beach resort provokes complex questions of privilege and class in my dutifully educated liberal mind, but back then, it was much simpler. There was an island, and I was on it. There was no shortage of things to do on the island. Roving bands of children would emerge from houses like ants from a disturbed mound, let loose onto the beaches by their parents in the explicit name of relaxation and the implicit desire to release themselves from the bonds of parenthood, if only for a few hours. We would wander the island like manically grinning, Land’s End clad, Robinson Crusoes. We engaged in shenanigans of such impish audacity I still fear to fully

disclose them to my parents. Rooftops were not safe from us, nor were the winding service roads we illegally rode our bikes through. To this day I shudder to think of the pristine lawns we mauled while running back and forth across them, attempting to get our five-dollar kites to soar proud in the endless blue of an island sky. My own particular crew of kids, ranging in age from around ten to fifteen was called the Doughnuts, after a plastic inner tube we somehow managed to lodge in a palm tree at least twice as tall as all of us put together. Our families tended to vacation at roughly the same time, so we would meet year after year. We formed one of those peculiar sorts of bonds that transcends geography and age and is only really possible to maintain in childhood. But while I have many fond memories of the island involving my friends, there was one activity that they refused to engage in with me. Storm-watching. About once a summer, without fail, an enormous storm could be guaranteed to sweep over the island, sending sane people scrambling back into their houses to play board games or watch movies for an evening. I, of course, did the opposite. The western end of the island tapered to a point that had been covered in rocks ranging in size from pebbles to full-sized boulders, to prevent erosion. I would head for this spot, nestle myself safely between two of the larger rocks, and await the oncoming storm. They were something to behold. The sky would roil with furious black and gray clouds that seemed somehow craggy, as though a mountain range was erupting from the dome of the sky. Piercingly bright greenish lightning leapt from cloud to cloud, cloud to ocean, and in one memorable occasion, cloud to a spot on the beach that seemed to be only a dozen yards away from me. I remember wishing I had words to describe the sound storm-waves made against the normally tranquil shore to my friends, then being interrupted by a thunderclap so loud that I didn’t just lose my train of thought, I lost the tracks. On one of our later trips to the island, when I was around sixteen, I sat there watching for so long that I actually fell asleep. I was awoken by the sound of seagulls and the set of aches that inevitably accompanies a night spent sleeping on rocks. I opened my eyes to a sight that I still associate with those nights spent storm watching, with my friends, even with the island as a whole. The storm was gone, replaced by a pre-dawn sky so peaceful and pure that the previous night’s fury was retroactively enhanced by the contrast. It was the color of the inside of seashells, the color of saltwater taffy freshly unwrapped, the color of hidden things revealed. I haven’t lived a long life, but I can say with some confidence that the color of the sky as I sat on those rocks that morning was one of the most beautiful things I will ever have the privilege of seeing. I sat for a long while. My head was tilted back, skyward. All I could see was milky pink. Mihir Bellamkonda is a Trinity first-year. His column, “small questions,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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iraculously, in all my 19 years of clumsy escapades, I’ve never once broken a bone. I’ve never needed surgery, never required follow-up appointments and never spent more than a few hours in the hospital or the doctor’s office. So when the back of my right heel started bruising and swelling near the beginning of this year,

Cameron Beach COLUMNIST I didn’t know exactly what to do. I stopped running, started icing and tried to wait it out. But the strange, dull throb of pain near my ankle kept creeping its way up my calf— I lost feeling in my toes, and my whole foot soon followed. Eventually, I capitulated and owned up to those elusive three little words: I need help. The question remained, though: where can I get it? On a day of unusually high pain, my google search for “physical therapy near me” found the Duke Urgent Care orthopedic center: it was only 10 minutes away from my home, so I visited in early September. After filling out extensive paperwork and paying my $40 insurance copay at the door, I was placed in a room and told to wait for the doctor. After a bit, she came in— there wasn’t much discussion before she decided to put me in a boot. “It’s probably Achilles tendonitis,” she told me, strapping my new plastic companion onto my right leg. “I don’t know for sure, but that makes sense—wear this for two weeks and you’ll be fine.” I begrudgingly accepted my diagnosis and commenced myfourteenday stint of hobbling around campus. After I finally took my boot off, though, my heel hadn’t gotten any better; in fact, it had gotten worse. Pain spasmed up my calf in the middle of class, my toes seemed permanently numb, and my ankle wouldn’t budge. When I found myself in serious doubt of whether I could get to class with a foot so swollen, I decided I needed a real diagnosis. Exactly three weeks ago, I found myself at a new urgent care center. Still run through Duke Medicine, this location was farther away from campus. The waiting room was packed. As I waited, I watched the scene. A small child in a car seat screamed in the corner; her mother rocked her with one hand and covered her own mouth with the other as she coughed. Two older men, one with a cast reaching up to his thigh, chatted in Spanish. A slim woman tried to maneuver her wheelchair through the chairscattered room. 20 minutes passed, then 30, then 40. After more than an hour, I finally heard my name. As the nurse took me through the back doors to be processed, she began asking me questions: “When did the pain start? How bad is it? Where does it hurt?” I answered her questions in detail and asked if she could refer me to an orthopedist who might have more insight into my esoteric problem. She looked at me and snickered. Before she responded, a woman passed by the door and my nurse waved at her, chuckling. “I’ve got a good one for you,” she said. I had a strange suspicion she was talking about me, but I brushed it off. Soon, my nurse finished her tests and brought me into an examination room. “The doctor will be with you shortly.” I reached for my backpack when I heard her voice again, this time on the other side of my door. “Can you believe that? Says she doesn’t think she has Achilles tendonitis, wants a referral to the surgeon,” she said, laughing. “In urgent care! Good luck with that. She’ll get some Ibuprofen and an ice pack.”

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My nurse was right—after spending four hours in urgent care, those two things were exactly what I got. After two more tries at two separate urgent care sites once Advil and ice had failed me, I left with no referral, no diagnosis and 160 dollars’ worth of copays. Throughout my childhood, I’d never felt truly out of place in the medical system. Alhough I’ve been fortunate enough to avoid hospitals for most of my life, my dad is a doctor. When I need medical help, I know I always have an avenue to it. And in a new environment, hundreds of miles away from the medical connections I’ve always had, I realized that to be taken seriously in the medical system you must have leverage. This is by no means a Duke-centric problem; this is a problem across the country. I’ve been lucky enough to always feel listened to in medical situations, because my leverage is my dad. Away from him, I became another misguided, naïve patient in urgent care. For weeks, I was shrugged off everywhere I visited. I tallied the five different diagnoses I’d received, none of which fully explained my symptoms. After finally hobbling to Harris Teeter to pick up a “stronger Advil” one doctor prescribed to me—only to realize he hadn’t called in the prescription— I gave up. I felt completely alone and had nowhere to turn. I had run into wall after wall; no one had taken me seriously. I didn’t know where I could find the leverage I needed to get the help I wanted. But this is not a story of a single problem. If I feel this alienated by the medical system, who else feels that way? What if I spoke limited English and was trying to get help? What if I had no entrance the system other than urgent care? What if I didn’t have a car to get to the doctor’s office, and what if I couldn’t pay my copays? What if I didn’t have insurance? I realized that my panicked feeling of helplessness when I had finally exhausted my options might not be a transient feeling for others. If I— a fortunate, white female—feel this deep frustration at my lack of ability to get the help I needed, how does this system work for systemically marginalized populations? I suspect not very well. This is a significant problem, particularly in Durham. As of 2013, over 20% of adults in Durham were uninsured, a rate much higher than that of North Carolina at large. A disproportionate proportion of uninsured adults are Hispanic Durham residents. The Community Health Assessment, run by the Durham Department of Public Health, ran an opinion survey within the Durham Hispanic community in 2014. It revealed that two of the three most widely repeated struggles were lack of health insurance and discrimination within the healthcare system. In 2012, almost a quarter of Durham residents said they wouldn’t see a doctor due to how expensive it is. That’s over 60,000 people. Eventually, I saw the orthopedic surgeon I had sought for weeks. It wasn’t the product of a referral, a phone call or an office visit. My friend knew the doctor. She put me in contact and I made an appointment. Simple. After weeks of slogging through the medical system, all I needed was a single connection. All I needed was a little leverage. But health care shouldn’t be about who you know. I was lucky to find my leverage, but that doesn’t make this system fair. Every person should be taken seriously about something as important as health. Every person should be able to access the care they need. And every person should feel listened to, cared for and respected—that’s what health care is about.

nother socialist regime, another failure. Venezuela’s economy tanked under President (essentially dictator) Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian regime, with its GDP contracting by 18.6 percent and inflation increasing by 800 percent in 2016. Venezuelans continue to be the subjects of a humanitarian crisis. Venezuela reflects the pitfalls of socialism as expressed by Nobel Prize economist Friedrich A. Hayek in his world famous book, “The Road to Serfdom.” Hayek explains the evils of socialism, which inherently requires an authoritarian system of government. As historical events continue to transpire, Hayek’s theories prove to hold true time and time again.

Cameron Beach is a Trinity sophomore. Her column typically runs on alternate Mondays.

Mitchell Siegel is a Trinity sophomore. His column, “truth be told,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

Mitchell Siegel TRUTH BE TOLD Socialism relies on the central planning of the economy. The system leads to totalitarianism, whether it is democratically implemented or not. Additionally, socialist totalitarian states like Cuba and the Soviet Union proved that when the government controls the distribution and allocation of resources in an economy, fundamental inefficiencies and deficiencies arise that ultimately hurt citizens. It is unjust to have insulated bureaucrats determine what people are worth, as well as to allocate the supply of goods or services without sufficient mechanisms to assess the market and distribute resources appropriately. If the government essentially has full control over what and how much you can eat, in addition to the quantity and quality of medical care you receive, does the government not have control over you? Socialism’s appeal is deceptive to those it attracts. Proponents argue that socialist institutions provide equality and thus create continuous prosperity. However, socialism is innately undemocratic given that centralized planning requires coercive tactics in order to succeed. Socialism is hypocritical in nature: its professed humanitarian aims can only be implemented by using brutal force. Furthermore, a government like Venezuela has immense and frightening power to coerce citizens, violate human rights, and restrict freedom by controlling the allocation of resources and consolidation of wealth. The only equality that ever exists in socialist societies is that every citizen is equally miserable. Venezuela’s citizens unfortunately have fallen victim to socialist turmoil as the country’s democratic institutions have been ripped to shreds. The economy is largely dependent on oil, which accounts for nearly of 50 percent of GDP and 100 percent of exports. Recent oil price slumps have sent the economy into shambles. In 2016, Venezuela faced extreme scarcities in toilet paper, diapers and milk. This forced over 6,000 people to enter Columbia to buy necessities. Food riots are frequent, and for good reason. In fact, 75 percent of Venezuelans lost an average of 18 pounds last year. Government corruption is also rampant. For instance, the stateowned oil company PDVSA has funneled $11 billion in payments to government officials between 2004 and 2005. Medicine and health care essentially have vanished, and protestors are met in the streets with terror and violence conducted by the Venezuelan military. Venezuela’s fall into the socialist abyss began with the reign of Hugo Chavez (1999-2013), who made it a priority to wipe out the private sector and redistribute oil income in order to improve inequality statistics. Interventionist and market-distorting policies, such as restrictions on imports and industrial nationalization, have compounded throughout the years and led to the demise of the nation’s economy—once ranked 4th on a per-capita basis. Price controls and redistributive policies have brought both production and consumption to an abrupt stop. On July 30th of this year, 545 candidates from Maduro’s ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela were elected to a national constituent assembly. Political opponents of the government, such as the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), have denounced the assembly and its plans to overhaul the constitution. They claim that Maduro and his party are acting illegally to consolidate power. Over 120 protesters have died at the hands of the government, and 16 of them were killed on July 30th alone. Maduro’s dictatorship has gotten out of hand; moreover, it directly conflicts with United States interests. The U.S. government has already sanctioned the Venezuelan government for human rights abuses, but eventually more restrictions will be needed. United States policy toward Venezuela must remain robust and rooted in support of democratic governance. The United States should devise a list of boundaries that puts pressure on the Maduro regime, and includes releasing political prisoners as well as ending violence against demonstrators. The U.S. should also expand its international coalition in order to further delegitimize the actions Venezuelan government’s actions. Specifically, this coalition should condemn and refuse to recognize the constituent assembly. Targeted sanctions against Venezuelan government officials should be expanded to more individuals in order to increase pressure and bring the Maduro regime closer to talks of reform. Many on the left may argue that Venezuela solely is the product of a corrupt government and that Scandinavian countries are proof that socialism can be implemented properly. However, this is a common misconception. Sweden, for example, provides strong protection of property rights and encourages business and free trade-oriented policies that help fuel the private sector. In his book “Scandinavian Unexceptionalism,” Swedish author Nima Sanandaji argues that homogenous culture, strong social cohesion and free market policies predating their welfare states have led to the success of the Nordic countries. “Scandinavian countries,” he also writes, “compensate for high taxes and labor market rigidities by following liberal policies in other areas, such as business freedom and openness to trade.” Denmark, Sweden, and Norway also happen to rank similarly to the U.S. in regard to aggregate measures of economic freedom. It is unfortunate to observe that socialism still is in the business of entrapping the masses into utter deceit. Fundamentally, socialism is inconsistent with human behavior because it ignores incentives. Venezuela should be the modern example that scares this generation away from collectivist policies, candidates and desires. As Winston Churchill once said, “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”

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This project eventually developed into “In the Heights,” a Tony award-winning musical. This is one example of how StudioDuke can help students commercialize projects, Garfinkle noted. He added that Duke is forward-thinking and ahead of the curve in terms of arts education, as evidenced by the new arts center, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Duke Entertainment Media Arts Network and now StudioDuke. “Arts is critical in terms of creating the kinds of people the University should be putting into the world,” Garfinkle said. “The arts in of itself are really important in terms of impact on society. So much culture has come out of the arts.” He said that modern culture and media helps society break stereotypes and come to terms with controversial issues. For example, TV shows like “Will and Grace” made LGBTQ+ dialogue more commonplace, and musicals like “Hamilton” taught America’s history in a creative way. Even if someone does not pursue the arts, the artistic mindset is important to other areas, Garfinkle noted. He explained how Galileo discovered that the moon had pits and mountains because he understood drawing techniques,

FROM PAGE 1 of StudioDuke, Frey noted. He wanted to include alumni from every segment of entertainment industry, including those from the agent and corporate community. “It is going to enable a network of alumni mentors from all areas of the entertainment industry to come together for the purpose of helping our students,” Frey said. David Garfinkle—Trinty ‘83, instructor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and a writer and producer—agreed to be a mentor for StudioDuke. He decided to become a mentor because he said, “it’s really important to give back, to be at a place where you can work with and train people to be future leaders in the industry.” He explained that StudioDuke is important because it places students in the real world and allows them to have their projects be recognized in a commercial setting, which is an invaluable experience and can lead to future opportunities. Garfinkle referenced how Lin-Manuel Miranda, a threetime Tony award winner, began a creative project in college.

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which helped him notice shadows on the moon. Garfinkle said that if StudioDuke were available during his years at the University, entering the arts industry would not have been as difficult, adding that StudioDuke supports students who want to go into the arts so they do not have to create their own path. Frey said that the program will provide a clear pathway through the tools and mentoring needed beyond classroom projects for students to seriously consider the prospect of producing their work professionally. The application for StudioDuke opened on Oct. 11 and will close on Jan. 5, 2018. “I hope it provides a new avenue for students with creative projects to have their work developed as fully as possible and pitched professionally,” Frey said.

STUDY FROM PAGE 2 “I study off-campus at coffee shops in Durham, like Cocoa Cinnamon, Joe Van Gogh, Bean Traders and Mad Hatter, because it’s fun to study in different spaces and have different coffee shop phases,” Kaufman said. Why do so many students prefer to stick to Duke’s study spaces? Most said they don’t own a car or find it inconvenient when there are so many study options close by. “I never study off campus,” Smith explained. “There is a phenomenal library right on campus.”

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FROM PAGE 3 students alive because they’re not smoking,” Davis said. GPSC General Assembly members will vote on a resolution regarding the proposal at their Oct. 31 meeting. In other business Nikki Pelot, a sixth-year student in biomedical engineering, presented information about her petition challenging Duke’s recent ban on bicycles on Abele Quad. Pelot said that based on a conversation with Alison Carpenter, transit planner for Planning and Transportation Services, and campus landscape architect Mark Hough, she and other signatories worked to draft recommendations for a revised policy. These included suggestions for improved bicycle infrastructure on campus, a dedicated sidewalk on the quad open to both bicycles and pedestrians, as well as increased promotion of biking to campus. In the wake of last year’s approval of the OneDuke Access Fund, which provided a budget for grants to graduate student with needs, GPSC established a committee to make recommendations about the future of the program. Jason Lee, a second-year student in the Master of Environmental Management program, said that the program awarded 36 grants of $200 out of 358 total applications, though not all grants—in the form of cards from University Center Activities and Events—were picked up. Lee said the evaluation committee determined it would like to reinstate the program as the GPSC Emergency Travel Reimbursement program. Initially using funds leftover from the previous program, the program would provide reimbursements of $200 for graduate students who have to go on emergency trips on short notice. Tickets would have to have been purchased in the past two weeks and travel would have to occur within a two-week window. “We probably will see people who don’t have a true emergency, but it’s hard for me to imagine that someone will lie about ‘My grandma is sick, I want to go on Spring Break,’” Lee said. Lee noted that he intends for the program to launch in early November.