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DSG, admins adjust ‘blanket’ medical leave policy Adam Beyer The Chronicle Duke Student Government and University administrators hope that students will have an easier time navigating the medical leave process after clarifications to the University’s leave policy. Updates being made to the policy include provisions clarifying the length of medical leaves as well as the conditions imposed on students who decide to take a medical leave. In particular, the policy now states explicitly that medical leaves can be longer or shorter than two semesters, whereas in the past the policy stated that they had to be at least two semesters. Students on medical leave will still be required to remain away from campus for the duration of their leave. The policy changes were prompted by efforts from DSG to reduce confusing elements in the current medical leave procedures. “It didn’t make sense to have this one blanket policy and force all students to wait a whole year [to return from medical leave],” said senior Jay Ruckelshaus, senator for equity and outreach, noting that some students are ready to return quickly after a relatively minor illness. “I envision this being used a lot more now that this actually says so in the text.”

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Some of the changes to the policy codify what has already been University practice. Currently, students on medical leave are expected to stay on leave for two terms beyond the term they left. These additional terms of leave can include a full summer. Although

students have been able to petition to return to Duke sooner in the past, the new changes will formalize this process and make it clear that returning after one semester is a possibility. The possibility of extended medical leaves lasting three semesters or more will be added

to the policy as well, though it has already been offered by the school. One aspect of the policy that has not changed is the requirement that students on leave remain See LEAVES on Page 6

Duke creates new center for health policy research Staff Reports The Chronicle Duke is creating a new health policy center to develop ideas for healthcare reform, President Richard Brodhead announced Monday in a press release. The center, which will be based at the Fuqua School of Business, was founded through a $16.5 million gift by Dr. Robert Margolis and his wife Lisa Margolis. Dr. Mark McClellan, former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President George W. Bush, was named the director of the center, which seeks to

promote collaboration among healthcare experts and translate ideas into practice. With expected participation from faculty members in Fuqua, the Sanford School of Public Policy, the School of Medicine and the School of Law, the Duke-Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Health Policy represents Duke’s continued commitment to interdisciplinary research and real-world problem-solving, Brodhead said in the release. “This new initiative marks an important and transformative collaboration within Duke, bringing together our campus schools and Duke Medicine,” Provost Sally Kornbluth said in the release. “The Duke-Margolis Center under the direction of Mark McClellan will be the focal point

for faculty and students to test ideas, bring them forward to create change and to realize Duke’s full potential in a vital field.” As director, McClellan will oversee several fields of study at the center, including global health, public policy, biomedical research, clinical care and law. McClellan was chosen for his expertise in healthcare innovation and value, two areas that he has focused on as a senior fellow with the Washington-based Brookings Institution. “His experience in the evolving health care landscape is virtually unmatched, and colleagues across the University will welcome his leadership,” Brodhead said. See HEALTH POLICY on Page 4

Special to The Chronicle Former FDA commissioner Mark McClellan will direct Duke’s new health policy center.

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with microaggressions info about ingredients Alex Griffith The Chronicle The Alpha Alpha Chi chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity held an event Monday to discuss microaggressions in the Duke community and beyond. “Institutionalized: Living with Microaggressions” was held as part of the fraternity’s Sigma Week— which this year is loosely themed after rapper Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 album “To Pimp a Butterfly”—and featured a panel composed of student leaders from cultural groups across campus, including the Black Student Alliance and the Duke chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The panel was moderated and facilitated by Sean Palmer,

assistant director of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. “I had classmates interrogated by TAs who thought they were too dumb to write the papers they wrote,” Palmer said, providing an example of a microaggression as an introduction to the panel discussion. The event began with a video featuring one of the creators of the term “microaggression,” Derald Wing Sue, a psychologist and professor at Columbia University. The video explained that microaggressions are the “slights, indignities, put-downs and insults that minorities experience daily,” though they often come in the form of See MICROAGGRESSIONS on Page 6

Jessica Williams | The Chronicle Monday’s panel on microaggressions was part of Phi Beta Sigma fratenity’s Sigma Week and featured several campus leaders.

Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee is working to improve dining on campus for vegan and vegetarian students as well as those with food allergies. At its meeting Monday, DUSDAC discussed how to better inform students of food ingredients at on-campus vendors. Several committee members noted that they have heard students complain about crosscontamination and a lack of ingredient labels. Barbara Stokes, assistant director of dining services, said Duke Dining is in the process of implementing an online food management program that will provide

information about ingredients—including potential allergens—to address this issue. “Everything we put out there, we want to make sure it’s completely right,” Stokes said. The food management website will include the daily menu for on-campus eateries, and users will be able to sort the food options based on their specific allergens, Stokes explained. Marketplace and the Divinity School Refectory will be the first to be featured in the new online system. The site’s information will also be available on a mobile app. Committee members raised concerns that some students may not check the website for a list of allergen-free foods before visiting a specific eatery. However, Stokes explained that See DUSDAC on Page 6

Angela Liu | The Chronicle The challenges for students with food allergies and dietary restrictions were the main topic of discussion at Monday’s DUSDAC meeting.

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Delta expanding partnership with Duke, presence on campus Kenrick Cai The Chronicle Duke has recently worked with Delta Air Lines to create a number of new opportunities designed to benefit Duke students and employees. In June, the University and Delta unveiled the Duke Delta Air Lines Discount Program. Accompanying this initiative, Duke students will see an increase in Delta’s presence on campus in the coming months. The airline is already a major sponsor of Duke Athletics and will now sponsor more programs on campus. Delta has also recently announced a new flight from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport to Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport beginning in May 2016. “This was a significant movement by Delta to extend the partnership with the University,” said Mike Sobb, associate athletic director for resource acquisition, who is responsible for coordinating the program. “They’re looking for unique ways to try to reach the fan base, the alumni and the students.” The discount program requires interested Duke employees and students to either register and link their Delta SkyMiles account to their Duke NetID or to book the flights using one of Duke’s preferred travel agencies—American Express Travel or Cardinal Travel Service. Sobb noted that Delta is still in the process of rolling out the program to students and raising the airline’s profile on campus. “In terms of students, they’re looking at phasing things in and reaching students in different ways,” Sobb said.

“You’ll see that continue to roll out throughout the course of the year. They’ll be pretty high profile in some of our major events and working to reach students in terms of what their brand is and their accessibility.” Examples of Delta’s increased advertising presence on campus will include sponsoring campus events, bringing in academic speakers and offering internships. The airline is also continuing its collaboration with Duke Athletics—such as sponsoring Countdown to Craziness and naming the third level of Wallace Wade Stadium’s new Blue Devil Tower the “Delta Suite Level.” Duke is one of nine universities— including the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame— that agreed to a deeper partnership with Delta starting Fall 2015, according to a Delta Air Lines press release from Aug. 27. Students said that the new discount program will offer cheaper opportunities to fly across the country and overseas. “I think it has a good chance of beating any other price that another airline would have just because of what that discount offers,” said sophomore Aron Rimanyi, who flies overseas multiple times per year to visit family in Europe. RDU officials also announced Sept. 24 that Delta will begin a nonstop route to Paris beginning May 12, 2016. The flight is RDU’s second nonstop overseas flight after American Airlines’ London flight—a very rare occurrence for an airport of its size, RDU Airport Authority President Mike Landguth said during a press conference Sept. 24.

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Rimanyi noted that the new flight will be convenient for people flying to Europe due to Paris’s location within continental Europe. Unlike London, Paris offers better connections to other continental destinations. Michael Merson, Wolfgang Joklik professor of global health, noted that the Research Triangle’s international connections have created a demand for international flights. “I imagine they see that there are many colleges and major universities who are engaged with global partners, as well as a robust NGO sector with partners around the world, as well as leading private sector companies with a need for better

international flight options,” he wrote in an email. Jane Pleasants, associate vice president of procurement and supply chain management, noted that Duke has continued to work with the RaleighDurham Airport Authority to make travel more convenient for students and faculty. “Duke [is continuing] to support Raleigh-Durham Airport and make it an international destination,” she said. “We have had ongoing conversations with the airport along with other organizations in Durham to try to get as many flights into the Raleigh-Durham area as we possibly can.”

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India, Ecuador Jaime Gordon The Chronicle

Students can now consider new DukeEngage programs in Ecuador and India as they make plans for the summer. New programs in Kochi, India and Guayaquil, Ecuador were added to the program lineup for Summer 2016, which was released on Oct. 1. The Kochi program—which is organized in association with Global Vision International— Graphic by Dottie Kontopoulos | The Chronicle will focus on offering educational opportunities to women and children in disadvantaged communities in the south of India. The Ecuador program, organized by International Service-Learning Programs, focuses on providing services in the community health sector and will address issues such as public health education, communicable disease and environmental health. All of the programs that ran last year will also run next summer. Eric Mlyn, the Peter Lange executive director of DukeEngage and the assistant vice provost for civic engagement, noted that the increased program offerings reflect the trend of DukeEngage becoming a fixture of campus culture. “With nearly 25 percent of all graduates having participated, DukeEngage has become a signature part of the Duke undergraduate experience,” he said. Mlyn also said that DukeEngage adds new sites based not only on faculty proposals, but also with the intention of improving the geographic diversity of program offerings. In addition to adding the Kochi and Guayaquil programs, DukeEngage brought back two sites that were run in previous summers. The Beirut, Lebanon program—in which students teach English and SAT prep classes to refugee students—and the Literacy through Photography program in Tanzania have returned to the program lineup for Summer 2016 after not being offered for Summer 2015. Many students cite DukeEngage as one of the most impactful opportunities offered on campus. Sophomore Lilly Xie participated in the China-Zhuhai program last summer in which students provide arts education and English lessons in a middle school. Having danced for 14 years, Xie noted that the program’s arts integration focus was aligned with her interests and gave her a new perspective on American society. “It made me grateful for the education that I’ve had and added dimension to my Duke experience outside of just sitting in lecture halls,” she said. “It was nice to see that I could affect meaningful change.” All together, DukeEngage will run 40 group immersion Colors: Royal, Charcoal, and Black programs this summer—13 based in the United States and 27 abroad. Since the organization’s founding in 2007, Available Sizes: S - 2X DukeEngage has had programs in more than 69 nations Fabric Content: 80% cotton, 20% polyester (varies by color) around the world as well as in 18 cities across the U.S., serving nearly 600 community partners on six continents according to Advertised price does not include tax. Offer cannot be combined with any other discount or promotion. the organization’s website. Approximately 900 students apply to DukeEngage every Offer valid Tuesday, October 20 through Monday, October 26, 2015, year, DukeEngage Director of Communications Cathy Stamm, Trinity ’92, wrote in an email. Around 435 of them are placed in or while supplies last. service positions both in the United States and abroad. Stamm noted that as an alumna, she is happy that the University is placing a renewed focus on community service. “I’m proud that Duke has evolved to so strongly support civic engagement in all its forms,” she wrote. “DukeEngage is just one example of how the University educates the individuals who will become leaders and change-makers on local, regional and global levels.”

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HEALTH POLICY from page 1 Margolis is the retired CEO of HealthCare Partners, a physician-owned medical group headquartered in Los Angeles. Margolis, who graduated from the Duke School of Medicine in 1971, said in the release that the center is motivated by “wide disparities” in access to and quality of health care in the U.S. and around the world. “Duke is uniquely positioned to rigorously study, research and evaluate new and best practices in the U.S. and abroad and advocate for public policies that promote equitable, efficient and high-quality care for all Americans,” he said. The center will also have an office in Washington directed by Dr. Gregory Daniel, a Brookings fellow and leader of the institute’s biomedical innovation portfolio.

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Sophomore places Professors discuss Syrian refugees in top 10 at Miss N.C. USA pageant Samantha Neal The Chronicle While most students were spending their fall breaks relaxing, one undergraduate walked the runway in front of 25,000 people in a swimsuit and evening gown. Sophomore Savanna Welch—winner of the Miss Durham USA title—competed in the Miss North Carolina USA pageant at High Point University Oct. 9-10 and placed in the top 10 out of 72 competitors. Although Welch’s only previous pageant experience was Miss Durham, she beat out many competitors who are regulars on the pageant circuit. She said she hoped to use her pageant run as a way to speak out against eating disorders and encourage female empowerment. “I’m very much into female confidence,” Welch said. “I saw this as a platform to be able to say, ‘Little girl, you’re smart and you’re pretty, but your brain is more important than how pretty you are, how tall you are or how skinny you are.’” The Miss North Carolina USA pageant consists of three rounds—swimsuit, interview and evening gown—and the winner advances to compete for the Miss USA title. Welch explained that the majority of her training focused on perfecting her walk and preparing for her interview. “I felt my interview was my strongest part of the competition because of the education I’ve received at Duke,” Welch said. “It automatically gave me an advantage.” A native of Wisconsin, Welch was able to compete in the North Carolina pageants because she is a full-time student. She said she first learned about the Miss Durham competition via Facebook and decided to sign up for it on a whim. Welch’s friends noted that her hard work and determination helped her stand out from the other contestants. “I wasn’t surprised at all when I heard she won Miss Durham— she’s kind, accomplished and well-spoken,” sophomore Mary Ziemba said. “Some people might stereotype pageant contestants as shallow, bragging or dumb—she is none of those things. She represents Duke and Durham so wonderfully.” As Miss Durham, Welch has appeared as a public figure at restaurants and parades and has modeled for the clothing store Jo’s Boutique on Broad. In preparation for Miss North Carolina, Welch had to recruit sponsors to pay for her training, evening gown, hair and makeup, she said. Several local businesses—including 140 Salon and Drybar, Harris Teeter and Pomodoro Italian Kitchen—agreed to help fund her preparation. She then participated in coaching sessions once a week during the summer and trained every day in the three weeks leading up to the pageant. With the intense training and dieting for the pageant behind her, Welch said she now feels like she can return to her normal life. “As soon as it was done, my mom and I went to Cookout, and I got a large milkshake and a bacon cheeseburger,” Welch said. Despite her success at Miss North Carolina, Welch said she is not interested in participating in future pageants. She said she recognizes that the judging is often dominated by politics. Welch also acknowledged that beauty pageants are problematic in their portrayal of young women. “I think that media today portrays women in a way that’s not feminist,” she said. “We say we’ve come so far, but I’m still standing in front of 25,000 people wearing a bikini.” Although Welch will no longer compete in pageants once her term as Miss Durham expires, she does plan to continue modeling and eventually pursue a career in acting or broadcasting. “It’s my first pageant and my last,” Welch said.

Onastasia Ebright | The Chronicle A panel discussed the scope and impact of the Syrian refugee crisis Monday evening in the Old Chemistry Building.

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Warren M. Grill, PhD Recipient of the 2015 Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award The Office of the Provost cordially invites you to a special event honoring Duke’s own Dr. Warren Grill, recipient of the 2015 Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Dr. Grill will apply the $4 million, 4-year grant to study deep brain stimulation in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Please join us to celebrate with Dr. Grill and learn more about his groundbreaking research.

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MICROAGGRESSIONS from page 2 misguided compliments from people who see themselves as unbiased and moral. Those who frequently experience microaggressions include women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community. Following the video, panelists introduced themselves and gave examples of their experiences with microaggressions. Junior Edgeri Hudlin, education chair of the Duke chapter of the NAACP, explained that early on in his Duke career, a professor returned to him a paper with comments complimenting him on his English based solely on his “foreign-sounding” name, despite the fact that he grew up in the U.S. and speaks English as his first language. Senior Tony Lopez, president of the Duke chapter of La Unidad Latina, explained that microaggressions are part of a problem larger than individual one-on-one interactions. “It’s a symptom, but if you get rid of the symptom the illness is still there,” he said in reference to institutionalized racism. Other panelists spoke about their Duke-specific

experiences with racism and aggressions, particularly in relation to the University’s status as a predominantly white institution. Several noted that members of the Duke community often try to distance themselves from racism. “Lots of people here like to say ‘smart people can’t be racist,’” explained sophomore Victoria Prince, community chair of the Students of the Caribbean Association. The superficial appearance of diversity at Duke was also a topic of discussion, as various panelists mentioned feeling trivialized as minorities who are only present at the University to fill quotas. Lopez asked if the role of minorities is only to present a sort of “visual buffet” on campus. Senior Cody Parrott, a member of Duke Students for Justice in Palestine, said another issue related to microaggressions is that white people often want to avoid shouldering the blame for past racism. “We want to be outside the problem,” he said. Many speakers, including Parrott, mentioned that in order to remedy the situation, the problem must be addressed by all parties—both those negatively affected by microaggressions and those who perpetrate them.

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DUSDAC from page 2 Duke Dining is working to make this information available at the actual locations as well. “We’re still working out details on how to display it in restaurants, but we’re really excited about it,” she said. The committee also discussed the lack of labeling of vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options at Marketplace. Additionally, members mentioned that the Earth’s Fare station often has vegetarian dishes but few vegan options. Concerns about cross-contamination in Marketplace were also noted, especially regarding gluten-free items. “It’s ironic that I have to wipe down the bagel slicer to slice my gluten-free bagel because there’s no gluten-free slicer, and then return to the gluten-free station to use the gluten-free toaster,” said committee member Betsy Mansfield, a senior. In other business: Mixed Korean Truck is set to arrive on campus in the near future. Stokes noted that the contract will be signed soon and that the process should move along quickly.

LEAVES from page 1 away from campus or risk losing their ability to return. Lee Baker, associate vice provost for undergraduate education, said students are best able to improve their health away from campus, especially as many of the problems prompting medical leaves arise from being on campus. “Unfortunately, colleges are not therapeutic institutions,” he noted. The revised policy also clarifies that students are not required to work a job or volunteer while they are away as is the case with other types of leaves of absence, including those for personal or disciplinary reasons. Although there is the expectation that students do something productive while away, they will primarily be tasked with getting better and can figure out a plan for their leave on a case-by-case basis, Ruckelshaus explained. Administrators said that engaging in some activity while on leave helps students remain productive during their time out of school. “We want them connected and integrated in a particular community because that’s how people grow and develop and become healthy,” Baker said. “We want them engaged—whether that’s work, school or volunteer work. It’s not a punishment.” Ruckelshaus said he has been advocating for a change to the policy since Fall 2012 after going on medical leave himself before his freshman year. He, junior Ilana Weisman, vice president for equity and outreach, and DSG President Keizra Mecklai, a senior, worked with Baker and Dean Sabrina Thomas, who oversees the Office of Student Returns. Mecklai spotlighted medical leaves as an issue in her campaign platform last year. “Medical leave of absence policies haven’t been updated in years,” Ruckelshaus noted. “It’s been a long, slow process because the nature of the policy is really legalistic.” According to numbers provided by Baker, roughly one third of leaves taken by students are medical leaves. Change to the policy in the past has been tempered by administrative worries that overly permissive standards for returning to school could lead to students going on leave multiple times. “A lot of the other schools that have more relaxed policies don’t have the same graduation rate [as Duke],” Baker noted. “We want students to be successful. We want our students to finish strong.” Overall, Ruckelshaus is excited by the changes that present a friendlier face to the often daunting process through more accessible language and greater support for programs serving students who have gone on or are considering going on leave. The Office of Student Returns also hopes to address the stigma surrounding students who take leaves of absence. The OSR student ambassador program has existed for several years and serves students regardless of the type of leave they take. Junior Simirpreet Gill, who is serving as an OSR Ambassador this year, said the program will be more outward-facing as it seeks to plan programming to get students to normalize the idea of going on leave. “Don’t feel like you can’t [take a leave] or that you can’t talk to anyone about it,” Gill, who took a leave during her freshman year, said. “The ultimate goal would be to normalize it and reduce the stigma surrounding it so other students can get help.” After going on leave, students can participate in the program’s activities, including regular luncheons and personal narrative oral history projects. Gill said she has made new friends based on shared experiences through the support group. “It’s really just a super program,” Gill said. “[Students in the program] get me in ways that others might not.” The official policy changes will be included in the 2016-2017 Undergraduate Bulletin but will be applied immediately by academic deans and the committees that review applications for return, Thomas noted in an email.

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Senior Ross Martin has become one of the nation’s most consistent kickers Brian Mazur The Chronicle When Ross Martin stepped on Duke’s campus in 2012, he knew that an unreliable field goal unit had plagued the Blue Devils’ ability to post wins for much of the previous decade. His predecessor, Will Snyderwine, who had an All-America caliber season in 2010, was coming off a 2011 campaign in which he only made 8-of-17 field goals. That included missing a 28-yard chip shot with less than two minutes remaining in a home loss to FCS opponent Richmond that defined a disappointing 2011 campaign in which the Blue Devils went 3-9 for the second straight season. But Duke’s struggles to put three points up on the board predated Snyderwine. From 200207, Blue Devil kickers combined to make just 54-of-98 field goals, converting 55.1 percent of their tries. In 2007 alone, Duke only registered three field goals all season. Head coach David Cutcliffe inherited kicker Nick Maggio when he arrived in 2008, and though he made 11 of his 14 field goals on the season, most of those came from inside 30 yards. Maggio was shaky from more than 40 yards and missed a critical game-winner Nov. 1, 2008 at Wake Forest, a game the Blue Devils went on to lose 33-30 in overtime. In 2012, Martin—then a true freshman— simply put the history behind him. He was determined to enter his first fall camp, establish himself and do what previous kickers could not: build a legacy with his leg. “From when I got here, it was a new era,” Martin said. “We had a lot of new players and new potential. I didn’t want to make that affect my performance or think about what [Snyderwine]

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Ian Jaffe | The Chronicle Duke kicker Ross Martin is a perfect 12-for-12 on field goal attempts this season to lead a solid Blue Devil special teams unit, putting him on the radar for end-of-year honors.

did. At the end of the day, it was totally different players, new expectations.” The new expectation during Martin’s freshman year in 2012 was winning. The Blue Devils went 6-6 and made their first postseason appearance since 1994 in the Belk Bowl. And unlike previous years, Martin and the kicking unit were consistent, knocking in 20-of-23 field goals with a long of 52 yards. He went on to garner Freshman All-America and honorable mention AllACC accolades as Duke reasserted itself in the college football world. But despite Martin’s accomplishments in his first year as a Blue Devil, there was no way of

knowing what kind of season he would have in 2013, or for the rest of his career. Consistency is far from a given—just ask previous Duke kickers, who could never establish themselves as reliable scoring options. Or take Pittsburgh kicker Chris Blewitt, who missed a game-winning 26yard field goal in Duke’s 51-45 win against the Panthers last November, but nailed a 56-yarder to beat Georgia Tech last weekend. Martin overcome the consistency obstacle with his confidence. As a freshman, the Solon, Ohio, native was pressed into action quickly, giving him little time to adjust to playing See MARTIN on Page 9

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski told ESPN that the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will be his last as the head coach of the U.S. men’s national team. “I think it’s time to move ahead. During the next season there will be a number of decisions made about the future of USA Basketball with Rio [the roster] and coaching,” Krzyzewski told ESPN’s Andy Katz. “There has to be a succession... a planned succession with really good people so we can keep the continuity of the program going.’’ Krzyzewski has spent the past decade on the sidelines with the U.S. national team, assuming the position Oct. 26, 2005. After Team USA struggled to a bronze medal finish at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, the five-time national champion led the United States to gold medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the 2012 Olympics in London. Krzyzewski previously announced he would step down following the 2012 Olympics, but later accepted an invitation from USA Basketball president Jerry Colangelo to return to coach the U.S. men’s national team through the Rio Olympics. In his interview with Katz, Krzyzewski said he is interested in moving on to a new role within USA Basketball, but did not advocate for any particular person to replace him beyond saying that the new coach of the national team should be someone with prior international coaching experience.

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Blue Devils face must-win against talented Phoenix Steve Hassey The Chronicle After notching six goals against N.C. State en route to their first conference win Friday, the Blue Devils will look to continue their newfound offensive efficiency into the final four games of the regular season. Duke will take its home field against No. 11 Elon Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium. After a stretch in No. 11 which the Blue Devils Elon won just one of eight vs. games, the win against the Wolfpack allows Duke Duke to take the field with a heavy weight off TUESDAY, 7 p.m. Koskinen Stadium its back. “The N.C. State game was huge,” graduate student Jared Rist said. “That game was definitely one where

your season can go either direction. That was huge to get us back on track.” Senior captain Zach Mathers led the Blue Devils (6-6-2) with three goals and one assist in Friday’s 6-2 rout. It was the first hat trick by a Blue Devil since Andrew Wenger scored three—coincidentally also against the Wolfpack—in 2011. The performance was good enough for Mathers to make the College Soccer News National Team of the Week—the first Blue Devil to be featured on the list this season. “When Chachi [a nickname for Mathers] is in the mood and when he’s playing well, our team really, really operates in the right direction,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “He is an integral member of this team—he’s the captain, he’s our leader. From an offensive standpoint, he’s crucial to our success. When he’s on, we’re on.” See M. SOCCER on Page 9

Lily Coad | The Chronicle After scoring a goal at the tail-end of Duke’s 6-2 win Friday against N.C. State, sophomore Macario Hing-Glover will look to keep the offensive momentum going Tuesday night.

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Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Patience is a virtue: Duke stuck with David Cutcliffe after a rough first few seasons, and both Virginia Tech’s Frank Beamer (left) and Miami’s Al Golden (right) have struggled with traditional powerhouses in recent years.

In a sport that generates billions of dollars in revenue every year, the greatest indicator of success in college football has proven to be not which program can build the best facilities or attract the most-talented recruits, but which can create a steady coaching situation. Finding that stable face of the program can be a long, painful Sameer Pandhare search best characterized as an imperfect science. The college football world was rocked with the resignation of South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier and the firing of Southern California’s Steve Sarkisian in the past week. Although the programs who go by the name “USC” are now in a state of flux, the changes shed light on one of the most unappreciated aspects of college football—coaching. The Blue Devils’ next two opponents—Virginia Tech and Miami—present an interesting case of just how unpredictable finding a lead man can be. During his 28 years in Blacksburg, Frank Beamer has become the staple of Hokie football. Virginia Tech has reached 22 consecutive bowl games and captured the ACC Coastal Division crown six times from 2004-11. Under Beamer, the Hokies have earned a reputation for having a stout defense and timely special teams unit that teamed with a raucous environment at Lane Stadium to make a battle with Virginia Tech a nightmare. But in the last four years, something has changed. The Hokies have finished 7-6, 8-5 and 7-6 and appear headed for another disappointing finish with their current 3-4 record. Beamer’s success for most of the past three decades has built up plenty of good will with the fans in Blacksburg, but if the Hokies don’t return to their winning ways soon, some of that could dissipate. Someone who may be close to wearing out his welcome is Miami head coach Al Golden, who has watched “FIRE AL GOLDEN” banners fly over him in Coral Gables. Golden has yet to take his Hurricanes to an ACC Championship game, but has been more scrutinized for his 0-5 record against arch-rival Florida State. Although Miami has averaged the 11th-ranked recruiting class during Golden’s last three seasons, the program has very little to show for it with a 17-17 conference record in the last five years. It’s unlikely that Golden simply forgot how to coach after building Temple into a Mid-American Conference contender before heading to Miami, but at this point anything short of a Coastal title could mean the end of the road. Pulling the plug on a head coach can throw a program into even more uncertainty and make matters worse before they get better, leaving many athletic directors contemplating when the right time to make a move really is. But is there ever a right time? A survey of the current landscape gives mixed reviews. Firstyear head coaches Jim McElwain and Jim Harbaugh have bucked the idea of a transition period and crafted Florida and Michigan into top-15 teams. Granted, both squads were loaded with talent even before their new sheriffs came to town, but the culture changes in Gainesville and Ann Arbor have made fans forget the dark days that preceded. Second-year Texas head coach Charlie Strong needed just one victory—a Red River Rivalry win against Oklahoma—to change the tune in Austin. And then there are the more gradual transformations that have occurred in Waco, Texas, and East Lansing, Mich., where Art Briles and Mark Dantonio have turned Baylor and Michigan State into two of the top programs in the country. We don’t hear much about Briles’ 15-22 record in his first three seasons as his team gets ready to drop 70 points on another Big 12 opponent. Nor do we hear about Dantonio’s 7-6 and 6-7 records in 2007 and 2009 as his team appears headed for a third consecutive major bowl game—thanks in part to a special teams gaffe by Harbaugh’s Wolverines. Duke presents evidence for those in favor of a more patient, wait-and-see approach. Head coach David Cutcliffe’s 15-33 record in his first four campaigns in Durham would almost certainly have gotten him the axe at other college football programs and boy, are the Blue Devils glad they stuck with him. Coming off three consecutive bowl appearances, Duke now sits at No. 23 in the AP Poll with its 5-1 record despite ushering in a new quarterback and losing one of the program’s best wide receivers to graduation in the offseason. If there’s one thing the coaching carousel has taught us, it’s that you simply never know when the time is right.

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MARTIN from page 7 Division I football. He did what he did best— use his leg to put points on the board. “I don’t really think I had a chance to stop and think about the moment of playing college football,” Martin said. “It was like week one, you’d better get out there and perform.” This helped make Martin mentally tough as kicker, which he said is critical to playing the position. He stayed confident in 2013, even though he only converted 13-of-19 attempts that season. But the numbers didn’t phase him, as he knocked in attempts from 51 and 53 yards to help beat then-No. 14 Virginia Tech and made the game-winning 27-yard field goal against North Carolina to clinch a spot in the ACC championship game. The next season, Martin bounced back and reasserted himself as one of the nation’s best kickers, converting 19-of-21 field goals with only one miss from closer than 50 yards all year. So far in 2015, Martin is a perfect 12for-12 and is finding himself on midseason All-America rosters. In ideal conditions, he said he would be comfortable kicking a 60yard attempt. “My confidence level is at an all-time high, as it should be,” Martin said. “Seniors are expected to lead the team, they’re expected to be the role models for the younger guys. I want players thinking about me later on saying, ‘He was a consistent guy, a reliable guy.’” Apart from his confidence, Martin’s relationship on and off the field with punter Will Monday and long snapper Thomas Hennessy has helped the trio establish a consistent routine. Until rainy conditions caused Monday to mishandle two snaps against Georgia Tech last sudoku_498B month, the Blue Devils had not missed

an extra point since a blocked PAT in the Belk Bowl in 2012. “They need to do their job in order for me to touch the ball,” Martin said. “I have so much confidence in them, so it’s on me. I need to finish the job.” As the Blue Devils enter their most crucial stretch of the season, which includes games against fellow Coastal Division frontrunners Miami, North Carolina and Pittsburgh, the weight could very well be on Martin’s shoulders to knock a game-changing field goal through the uprights. But just as Duke has come to expect to win every game on its schedule, Martin has come to expect every field goal to sail between the goalposts. This is what fuels a winning mentality. “[Winning] is definitely the new standard here,” Martin said. “All of the seniors, we don’t know a season where we haven’t gone to a bowl game. It’s not necessarily a high standard, but it’s an expectation. It’s something that we expect to do at the end of the year.”

M. SOCCER from page 7 If Duke is to start a winning streak Tuesday night, Mathers and the rest of the squad will have to be on their game. The Phoenix (12-2-0) are ranked No. 13 in the RPI—a computerized index of team strength that accounts for results, opponent strength and goal differential, among other factors. As the end of the season approaches, Duke must turn its eyes to a possible at-large postseason berth. Kerr has spent the past four years on the NCAA tournament selection committee and understands that RPI plays a large part in the difference between receiving

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just one match. Cooper VandermasPeeler—a former member of the United States U18 national team—transferred from North Carolina after his junior season to use his final year of eligibility at Elon. “They have some good attacking players from all angles up front and out wide,” Kerr said. “They have two really talented midfielders who hurt us a great deal last year, so we’ll have to take of those two guys in the middle, [Alvarez] and [Salazar].... They’re very disciplined, so if we’re not careful on the ball and we don’t keep possession well in the midfield they can really hurt us on the counterattack.” With the attacking talent of the Phoenix, Duke will have to focus on possession and controlling the ball in the middle and the back. Last season, Elon beat the Blue Devils 2-1 for the first sudoku_498B time in the teams’ shared Created by Peter Ritmeester/Presented by Will Shortz history. Duke will be searching for revenge 7 Tuesday night. 1 5 “It’s definitely going to be a different 1 game from last year,” Rist said. “We have 8 6 5 them at home and we4 have played really 1 9 well against good teams 2 7this year.6 I definitely think the boys are ready.” 5 1

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ast month California passed a law requiring universities to use affirmative consent standards in cases of sexual assault. Under a standard of affirmative consent, better known as “yes means yes,” both parties must clearly, knowingly and voluntarily agree to engage in sexual activity. The law is a departure from the previous norm of “no means no,” the complement of this policy. More than 1,400 universities have incorporated affirmative consent into their policies, and Duke’s own sexual misconduct policy defines consent as “an affirmative decision to engage in mutually acceptable sexual activity given by clear actions or words.” While many find this definition intuitive, some students find it awkward and serious critics point to issues it creates with quasi-legal burdens of proof. Why the resistance? One reason is that affirmative consent uproots many deeply-ingrained societal and cultural norms about sex. It holds that consent is something to be granted, rather than assumed in the course of sexual activities. Historically, the onus has been on victims to prove they refused, rather than on the offender to prove that sex was mutually embarked upon. Yet these assumptions are rooted in deeply problematic moral traditions: a culture of misogyny, a sense of entitlement to women’s bodies and a weaker sense of self-ownership for women compared to men. Affirmative consent policies on college campuses jump

start a shift towards healthier sexual relations and codify more intuitive moral norms of treating the bodies of others with dignity and respect. But this change must occur not only via top-down policies, but also from bottom-up changes in student attitudes. On the policy level, an unsolved problem is how colleges can clearly explain the burden of proof in sexual assault cases under an affirmative consent standard. Last year, a government court ruled the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s decision

Editorial to expel a student after finding him guilty of sexual assault under affirmative consent was unfair because it “improperly shifted the burden of proof.” Dissonance between university quasi-legal and state legal procedures must be resolved. Muddying already muddy waters does no good for anybody, no matter how beneficial the policies adopted. This builds upon our previous demands that Duke give transparency to its student conduct sanctioning guidelines and better outline student procedural rights. An explanation of burdens of proof and how the University’s proceedings interact with outside litigation is essential. At the student level, because affirmative consent

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requires some students acknowledge and unlearn deeply-rooted ideas of sexual entitlement, the campus community plays a crucial role in fostering a culture of affirmative consent among the student body. Having student-driven, community-based dialogue and education efforts like the ones suggested in yesterday’s editorial works to ensure change happens organically. Top-down impositions are only as effective as the bystanders and peers who make policies into realities. For potential sexual assault victims or offenders, affirmative consent removes the grey area from sexual situations; it means that for sex to be consensual, participants cannot be incapacitated or anything less than willing to engage in sexual activity. For bystanders who may be unsure about whether to intervene, affirmative consent provides a clear case for action when they notice someone incapable of giving consent entering a sexual situation. For all students, it normalizes mutual respect and open communication as integral parts of sex. Affirmative consent laws catalyze the drastic policy and cultural changes needed to resolve the sexual assault crisis happening on college campuses. It is time to replace “no means no” with “yes means yes,” and the University has several responsibilities in policy clarification and community outreach to move this change forward.

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t’s officially fall at Duke. The weather is a little cooler, sweaters and scarves are in fashion and book bagging is on the horizon. It’s also the same time of year that every one gets a little anxious. We’re worried about jobs and internships, and we’re worried about what our latest midterm grade means for our final course grade. We’re worried about the unrest in Syria and the violence in Israel and Palestine. The novelty of being back on

for break, my mom decided to make one of my favorite dishes. It’s just a simple dish made from chopped green beans and mild Indian spices, but it instantly makes me feel at home. We washed and prepped the vegetables together and then I watched her cook the rest while we chatted about school and everything that I had missed over the past few weeks. The aroma of the beans filled the house and the smell alone comforted me from everything I was

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campus is wearing off, and all the realities of campus life are sinking in. For me, fall break is always a really reflective time. Enough of the year has gone by that I’ve become settled and invested into Duke. On the other hand, I have a semester and a half left of my sophomore year to go and no idea how I want to shape it. I’m sure that one day when I’m older and wiser I’ll talk about college as a transformative time when I had no worries and could just take classes and explore. But right now, everything feels like it’s high stakes. I manage my days on iCal meticulously, whether its classes, meetings, lunches or homework. Like everyone else at Duke, I’m “busy.” I want to make sure that I take the right classes and meet the right people I’ll never get to meet anywhere else in the world. I’m so excited and thrilled about the incredible opportunities that going to Duke affords that I almost don’t even know how to start taking advantage of it all. This frenzy of life is fun and overwhelming. It’s easy to get lost in the day-to-day. But how do I find meaning in all of this noise? At what point do I mix all of these things together and discover my personal calling, my story? There is so much energy and excitement and responsibility that comes with being at this university that we have to focus to handle it all. This fall break, I had a bit of an epiphany. It came from three little words, whispered in a South Indian language, in my kitchen at home: Oop, hooli, kara. Allow me to explain: When I went home

worried about. When she was almost done, she put a few of the beans on the end of her wooden spoon and waved me over, asking me to taste it. Like always, they were delicious. And then she asked me, as she always does, “Oop, hooli kara?” It’s a Kannada phrase, in my native language, and loosely translated it means “Salt, sour, spice?” My mom’s cooking philosophy believes that great food has all three of these facets in per fect balance. Every meal she’s ever made throughout my childhood has ended in her calling me over and asking me those three little words. I’ve actually never tasted something that doesn’t have a per fect balance of these three. When I was standing in my kitchen, smelling these delicious beans, I couldn’t help but think how beautiful that whole concept was. Salt. Sour. Spice. Just three things that in balance make my mom’s food delicious. Indian food is central to my household. In fact, its one of the only strong connections to Indian culture that we have since we now mostly speak English and aren’t very religious. So maybe I stress out about the classes I’m taking or that I didn’t go to enough campus talks or that I shouldn’t have missed a dinner with a friend. But that’s okay. Because life isn’t always totally balanced. In fact, balance is an art. And if someone as incredible as my mom has got it figured out, then surely I can too. Shruti Rao is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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left my sophomore year at Duke feeling tired, and it wasn’t just from a lack of sleep. The sophomore slump hit me hard. I absolutely love Duke, and for the most part, I couldn’t be happier here. But, I was tired of the Duke “bubble”—my day-to-day routine, a social scene that was becoming for me more burdensome than stimulating and the feeling that, for a combination of reasons, I just wasn’t

2) Stop comparing your journey to everyone else’s I’ve spent a lot of my life, and not just my sophomore year, envying other people for anything imaginable— their looks, their smarts, their travels, even their serial dating skills. Duke is a very diverse place, but it’s easy to forget and to start making comparisons in an environment where you feel like most people are running marathons or coming up

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n early August, Lawrence Lessig, a Professor at Harvard Law School, wrote an open letter to the American public announcing his candidacy for president. The littleknown academic offered himself as, what he termed, a “referendum president,” promising specifically to overhaul the corruption that riddles the American electoral and legislative process. What caught most people’s eye, however, was his promise to resign immediately after

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good enough. From an outside perspective, nothing was ever “wrong.” I have an amazing group of friends, my family is beyond supportive and I’ve never been the least bit concerned about not knowing what I want to do with my life. But I felt a pervasive sense of emptiness, like something was missing. I spent a majority of my sophomore year comparing myself to others, criticizing myself for previous failures or worrying about something in the future rather than enjoying the good things I had going for me. So I set out for my abroad adventures hungry for new adventures—but also for something more. “I want to find myself,” I originally thought, but then I realized, “I don’t even know what that means.”So I set out to seek a sense of fullness. I wanted to feel whole and present—to absorb all different kinds of experiences and really be there. I chose to study with one other person from Duke, my friend Katherine, in a quaint and charming town in central Italy called Perugia. The city is famous for basically three things: truffles (the kind that grow in the ground), the region’s unsalted bread and the tourist-infested Eurochocolate festival—four things if you count the Amanda Knox debacle of 2007. A girl who had previously done the program said she loved it because the city felt like home—she had become friends with the local butcher and loved coming back on Sunday after a weekend of traveling. Lucky for me, I can say the same. I’ve been here for a measly six weeks but have managed to develop three ideals I like to remind myself of on a daily basis. While I don’t think I’ve yet to fully find myself (whatever that means), I think I’m on the road to something good. 1) Be open to all kinds of experiences, especially those that make you feel uncomfortable The most rewarding, or at least memorable, encounters have been those where I felt like an outsider— namely, trying to speak to a ticket inspector in broken Italian about how I managed to jump onto a practically moving train and why I didn’t have a ticket—or getting yelled at by a woman for having my feet up on my chair as I obliviously devoured my tiramisu gelato. Living in a different country is about embracing a different culture in its entirety but also being able to laugh when the differences aren’t transparent. The world becomes more open to you when you become more accepting. Number two and three go together.

with a cure for cancer. I’ve been taking a photojournalism class that focuses on individual stories, and its opened my eyes to how different one person’s experiences are from another’s. As humans, we try to make the world smaller in order to feel like it’s somehow comprehensible, labeling people into groups and categories as we see fit. But there are so many stories we don’t see on the sur face. I’ve only seen a glimpse of just how big the world is, but it’s safe to say our stories are much too unique to ever make any kind of comparison. 3) Enjoy where you are right now, in the moment I’ve always been an “anywhere but here” kind of girl, constantly restless—seeking other experiences that I feel I’m missing out on. Even more so abroad, it’s all too easy to get caught up in Facebook photos and Instagram accounts—to think I’d rather be in Budapest while in Paris eating the best croissant of my life. So I have learned to throw that mindset out the window. There are days when I consciously remind myself that this is my journey and my experience, and it may not be similar to anyone else’s. There are a million places to be, things to see and experiences yet to have, but most important is the one you’re having right now. Italy is a country that values the simple joys of everyday life—personal relationships, collective dining experiences, the beauty of a glass of red wine. Fullness isn’t about the amount of places you visit. It’s about actually being where you are, the people you’re with and the way you feel. One of the best meals I’ve had in Italy was not eaten in an upscale trattoria. It was a butternut squash lasagna cooked by my roommate and served on a paper plate, which I ate alongside 15 friends in my apartment’s tiny dining room. Those are moments that fill me with a sense of fullness. But wholeness, I’ve realized is about a balance. It also means feeling homesick and alone, maybe lost or even helpless. It’s me crying at the train station because I missed the last train from Rome to Perugia and won’t make it home for the night or alone on a Sunday night in a five-person apartment. It’s all about experiences—the good, the bad and the in-between kinds. I’m working on how to embrace them all. Kali Shulklapper is a Trinity junior. She previously wrote for The Chronicle’s news department and is studying abroad this semester in Perugia, Italy.

he accomplishes these goals. For the few that do know who Lessig is—or at least managed to stumble upon his article—that proclamation didn’t sit well. By his own admission, he had not accounted for the fact that the public simply has not reconciled the idea of a genuinely single-issue president. To his credit, Lessig has seemingly poured careful consideration and a sincerity to restore representative democracy into his campaign. Yet, I’m not so sure that the traction he has failed to gain stems from an aversion to his impending resignation, despite what he may think. It very well may be that amidst his thick Ivy League rhetoric and relative anonymity, nobody knows what the hell he’s talking about. Scrolling through the comments of his introductory letter on “The Huffington Post” indicated that most people were largely confused by what they had just read. The call to “restore this principle of political equity” and to “demand equality for citizens” appeals to most Americans, but it has also been rehearsed and recited by politicians for the better part of the last 50 years. More acutely, Lessig outlines on his campaign website his desire to squelch lobbying, oust gerrymandering and repeal Citizens United, all problems frequently associated with Washington’s corruption. These goals are strikingly in line with what a majority of Americans want, yet Lessig has so far been unable to strike the right chord with the public. Undoubtedly, the mass media’s disinterest with Lessig’s campaign makes it difficult for him to get the much needed face time an aspiring presidential candidate requires. Whether it’s the smothering presence of “outsider” candidates in the field or the simple fact that Lessig has not figured out how to package his message at a palatable Lexile level, the idea of the referendum presidency has realistically gone nowhere. So long as Larry David caricatures Bernie Sanders and Trump continues to Trump, Lessig will fizzle out. I don’t necessarily believe that Lessig’s platform or person are right for the White House, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think that the issues he’s highlighted should be front and center

at every debate. True equity in a representative democracy is a huge issue. As Lessig has argued in his writing, money may not buy influence in and of itself, but it absolutely buys access. When only half a percent of all Americans give the maximal campaign contribution, it’s clear that those who spend own the right to speak to lawmakers. The reality is that elected officials adhere to those who donate to their campaigns and super PACs, and

under that consideration, representation takes on an entirely new meaning. American congressmen spend between 30 and 70 percent of their time fundraising and campaigning, which almost assures the American people that their elected officials will spend half their time doing something other than working for them. The cycle is self-perpetuating, and so long as legislators labor for reelection— and the funds that requires—they are unequivocally tethered to the coffers and wishes of those who are willing and able to supply. The issues Lessig harps on are not strictly partisan. Gerrymandering, interest groups and campaign finance are problems that face Republican and Democratic lawmakers, largely because both parties are after the same thing. For that reason, Lessig’s message, if not its execution, resonated with me. If the current mayhem on Capitol Hill isn’t enough, it should be abundantly clear that Washington isn’t working the way it’s supposed to. As announced in his recent article in The Atlantic, Lessig has amended his referendum presidency. Acknowledging the statistical evidence that most Americans aren’t comfortable with a temporary president, he’s revised his campaign to more comprehensively address all issues and formally establish himself as a legitimate presidential contender. There is tremendous value in the platform that Lessig is presenting, even if it’s unlikely to come to fruition. But in order for those issues to not only catch but truly capture the public’s eye, Lessig has to live long enough to get on TV. Perhaps even a ballot. I hope Lessig hangs around. He’s a genuine guy with a genuine interest in the vitality of American democracy, and rather than trying to put bandages on the problem, he’s looking straight at the source. Ultimately, Lawrence Lessig might not be the guy to solve the Washington dilemma, but I’ll be happy to give him props if he ends up pointing us in the right direction. Caleb Ellis is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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