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Students flock to Arts Annex for new workshops Heather Zhou The Chronicle Students are taking full advantage of one of Duke’s most recent arts initiatives with the construction of a new $50 million Arts Center on the horizon. The DukeCreate Arts Workshop series, developed by DukeArts, University Center Activities and Events, duARTS, VisARTS, Artstigators and the Arts Annex, has received positive feedback from students and local artists since being implemented in early September. A variety of workshops— including painting, ceramics, screen printing and photography—are taught by local professional artists three times a week to appeal to a wide variety of students. “I came to Arts Annex a few times before to use the free supplies they provided to paint,” freshman Jane Xu said. “This workshop is even better because I can meet people who have similar interests in arts as I do, besides the instructor is really inspiring.” Although the program began approximately a month ago, organizers are already talking about potential expansion. “The turnout has been really good. The first two weeks the workshops were completely full,” said Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the arts and professor of music. “Because of the limited space, we can only take eight to 10 students each time. But that’s great because students get more individualized attention this way.” Lindroth noted that it is gratifying to see so many students taking advantage of the workshops. Their popularity is reflective of a recent increase in student interest in the arts—

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle The DukeCreate Arts Workshop series has been popular among students since kicking off in early September. The program hopes to expand in the future by inviting visiting artists and faculty to teach.

data recently released by the University showed that three times as many applicants to Duke are including art portfolios with their applications as did 10 years ago. Administrators are not the only ones pleased with student engagement with DukeCreate Arts—artists teaching the workshops have

reported positive experiences as well. Martha Clippinger, a professional artist who teaches painting and drawing in the workshops, noted that she was impressed that students are finding time to attend despite their busy schedules. “A lot of them have majors that are far away

from arts like biology and economics, and I feel they are all really open to just trying new things,” she said. The program has successfully attracted members across the Duke community— including both undergraduate and graduate students. “I really enjoy doing the arts and talking with the instructor.” said Meng Xie, a Ph.D. student in statistics who attended one of Clippinger’s workshops last Thursday. “It’s the first time this week that I am not thinking about the academic work and just focusing on creating something out of colors and patterns. I think I will come again next week.” Bill Fick, visiting assistant professor of art, art history and visual studies and an organizer for the workshops, noted that one purpose of the workshops is to help students engage with the broader Durham community in addition to learning about art. “A college campus can be isolated sometimes. We want to provide an environment for students to interact with peers and artists from outside and also for artists to know more about Duke, so that it is a two-way interchange of ideas,” Fick said. “We want to help build a dynamic arts community at Duke and we welcome students’ suggestions.” The organizers of the workshops plan to invite visiting artists and faculty to come and teach the workshops to expand the program, Fick explained. Other ideas for growth include future collaborations with Duke Student Broadcasting and DUU Freewater Productions to develop a video workshop next semester. The Arts Annex has hosted more students as a result of the workshop series, but is also See ARTS on Page 3

Triangle schools granted $5.5 million for nanotech research Vir Patel The Chronicle The three largest universities in the Triangle were recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to better facilitate collaboration between nanotechnology students, manufacturers and researchers. The grant, which totals more than $5.5 million and lasts five years, supported the launch of the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network in September of this year—an undertaking that builds upon previous NSF-funded nanotechnology initiatives between Duke University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The RTNN is managed by Nan Jokerst, J.A. Jones professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke; James Cahoon, assistant professor of

chemistry at UNC; and lead director Jacob Jones, professor of materials science and engineering at NCSU. The grant provides funding for the enhancement of university nanotechnology research centers across the area and also helps nanotechnology facilities introduce their research to students across the country. “We’re going to leverage this network in many ways,” Jones said. “Our collaboration opens up a much larger impact to users across the Triangle and across the nation.” Jokerst explained that the current interests of the RTNN lie in synthesizing materials, developing innovative structures and characterizing new nanoparticles. Nanoparticles, which can be as small as a billionth of a meter in size, possess a wide variety of applications. For example, they can be used as vehicles for drug delivery—nanomedicine

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that he is currently working on patenting a medical device, the idea for which originated in one of his undergraduate courses. “I had the chance to take several classes where we were partnered with physicians, shadowing them to see what issues they faced and how those issues could be addressed with engineering,” he wrote. Arey added that the combination of this type of exposure with the University’s growing entrepreneurial framework has substantially contributed to the rise of student inventions. In September, The Foundry—located in Gross Hall—opened as a space for teams of innovators to collaborate on refining their inventions, which Truskey said would complement work students do on their own. Duke’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative has also launched The Bullpen—a 12,000-square-foot complex in downtown Durham that opened in late August—which provides working rooms as well as space for See PRATT PATENTS on Page 3

Duke opens first transgender center in North Carolina Sarah Feng The Chronicle Transgender youth and their families have a new resource for furthering their mental and physical well-being. In July, Duke started the Center for Child and Adolescent Gender Care, North Carolina’s first such center and one of a few in the southeastern United States. The center—which has a core group of six staff—was founded by assistant professor of pediatrics Dr. Deanna Adkins with the goal of providing scientific treatments such as hormone therapy and surgery to children with gender dysphoria or sexual development issues. “It was after I met several kids who had problems and did a lot of research and readings, that I really started to discover what a huge need there is out there for the gender

dysphoria population, and how deadly it can be,” Adkins said. “About 40 percent of them attempted suicide. It’s just an amazing percent of people who are at risk of dying.” The center serves two main populations of patients. The first are those who have disorders of sexual development, or DSD. Many of these patients are diagnosed as infants with conditions such as ambiguous genitalia or congenital adrenal hyperplasia. The second group are those with gender dysphoria who are interested in exploring treatment and transition options toward the gender they most identify with. “I work with our mental health team and our social worker in discussing with the family what the potential options are for medical and possible surgical treatment for children,” said Dr. Jonathan Routh, associate professor of surgery and assistant professor in pediatrics. Clinical social worker Kristen Russell See TRANS CENTER on Page 3

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In the past two years, students, graduates and faculty at the Pratt School of Engineering have innovated at record rates. In 2015, 89 patent applications were filed and 60 received, compared to 30 patents filed and 42 patents received in 2013—according to a Sept. 22 memo sent by George Truskey, interim dean of Pratt. Additionally, the number of unique inventors increased to 193, more than doubling since two years ago. Truskey noted that the growth in the number of patents filed for and eventually issued reflects a trend of increasing entrepreneurial spirit that the University has been working toward for years. “Duke in general has been creating a climate that is much more open and facilitating for faculty and students who want to invent things and to commercialize their technologies,” he said. Dillon Arey, Pratt ‘15, wrote in an email

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noted in an email that the center fills a critical need for a transgender community that has historically lacked access to quality genderaffirming medical services. The DSD population will also benefit greatly from coordinated, interdisciplinary care to promote sexual and emotional well-being, she said. “I have been taking care of some kids with gender disorder for many years, but we haven’t had a real center with the support group and all the other support staff before,” Adkins said. “Now, we have all these patients together, which makes it easier to have staff focus on and take care of those kids and families all at one time.” Russell hopes the center will develop into a center of excellence that will provide well-rounded care to patients. “The center...is set to become a leader in medical provider training and collaborative networking with other medical centers to build strong community outreach and support for patients,” she wrote. So far, the team has received overwhelming support from Children’s Hospital and Health Center administration and staff, as well as the School of Medicine. It has also been welcomed by patients and families, Routh said. “We have been very thoughtful and very focused on making sure that we do this in a mindful manner,” he said. “We have received nothing but support from the University and the surrounding community.”

students to meet with potential investors. These initiatives are indicative of the University’s recent empasis on innovation, which was discussed again at the first Board of Trustees meeting Saturday. “The staff [at the Bullpen] have contacts,” Truskey said. “They will try to point students in the right direction by initiating contact.” Duke’s Office of Licensing and Ventures also helps students and faculty move their technologies forward by providing advice and support in the filing process, as well as identifying potential companies students might consider licensing their technology to. Dr. Barry Myers, professor of biomedical engineering and managing director of the Office of Licensing and Ventures, said it is important for students to recognize that invention takes The Chronicle spoke with Myers by phone and time and commitment. “Most start-up companies do not become huge, by email. successful businesses,” he said. “Not every idea wins, which means you have to play hard and play often to have success in entrepreneurship.” from page 1 For more than a decade, Myers has taught a class titled Invention to Application. As part of the class, teams of students work on is a huge focus for research in the Triangle, a technology developed by a faculty member, Jokerst said. Investigators at the NCSU College performing background research and of Textiles are also developing ways to improve developing a plan to commercialize it. Myers fabrics through nanocoatings, she added. confirmed via email that the course will be The network will work with other Duke taught in Spring 2016 as well. facilities such as the Shared Materials “They can’t learn this process by reading a Instrumentation Facility—started by Jokerst book,” Myers said. “They learn by doing and by in 2002 to develop metamaterials, which are observing what others do.” artificially made materials used to manipulate Students reap the rewards of entrepreneurial energy like infrared light and radar. SMIF activity in multiple ways, wrote Joseph Izatt, hopes to serve as a platform for commercial Michael J. Fitzpatrick professor of engineering, innovation, Jokerst noted. in an email. “[SMIF] is a facility where people can “Students benefit from early exposure to try out their ideas and essentially make [new nanoparticle] structures,” she said. “If the patenting process, and from opportunities [their ideas work], they can transfer them for new contacts, internships and jobs that into industry. We serve as a prototyping often follow when companies license Pratt

patents,” he wrote. Myers added that when faculty engage industry and start companies that turn into strong businesses, they go on to share those experiences in the classes they teach— providing yet another benefit to students. Truskey said he hopes to see the patents result in various communications, biomedical or data-transmission applications that will improve people’s lives. He added that there is an indirect connection between Pratt’s rise in national prominence in the last decade and the relative increase in patents filed for and issued. “When you have patents leading to inventions leading to successful products, word gets out and people know about that,” he said. “So there’s a secondary effect there, and people say that ‘Duke is a place where these things occur.’”

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The Blue Devils tied the Czech Republic Tuesday in an exhibition as part of a U.S. tour Seth Johnson The Chronicle Tuesday’s exhibition contest lasted more than three hours and went 10 innings, but it was not enough to determine a winner. In a slow, extra-inning affair, Duke tied the Czech Republic national team 5-5 in an exhibition game at Jack Field. CZECH 5 Coombs With the score DUKE 5 tied following the bottom of the 10th, the two sides agreed to end the contest and call it a night without declaring a victor. The Czech team made the trip to Durham for the second time in the last three years and played a more complete game compared to a 13-1 loss in October 2013. “I’m so impressed with the job [the Czech Republic has] done in two years. They’ve improved their club so much, especially on the mound,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “It’s a dramatically different club than what it was two years ago just in terms of the way they execute, especially on the mound.” The Blue Devils were facing the Czech Republic as a part of its second U.S. tour, which runs from Oct. 2-11. With qualifying tournaments for the World Baseball Classic and European

Ariana Gallegos | The Chronicle Junior Bailey Clark got the starting nod Tuesday against the Czech Republic, racking up a pair of strikeouts before yielding a pair of unearned runs.

Championships every two years, the Czech squad packs its bags every other year after minor league and European schedules end to play a number of collegiate teams in North Carolina, including other ACC teams N.C. State and Wake Forest. “The weather gets cold in October over in central Europe, so typically here in North Carolina it’s good weather,” said Czech Republic head coach Mike Griffin, a Canadian who played college baseball at Hawaii. “A couple of our coaches live here and have played at

school here, and it’s a good opportunity just to play everyday in better weather.” The Czech Republic has an assortment of players—ranging from 20 to 30 years old—with four players currently part of Major League Baseball organizations. In the most recent International Baseball Federation standings, the team ranked 24th, so building a stronger schedule prior to World Baseball Classic qualifying is imperative for the national squad to prepare for other international competition.

“We want to play quality teams every day,” Griffin said. “In the Raleigh area you can play UNC and Duke and N.C. State all within half an hour.” Junior Bailey Clark toed the rubber for the Blue Devils, and got off to a quick start with two strikeouts. The Asheville, N.C., native then ran into trouble, though, as catcher interference, a wild pitch and two errors put Duke behind 2-0 in the top of the first. Clark only lasted one inning for the Blue Devils, which made the decision pregame to switch pitchers every inning in an attempt to build experience for a young squad that will infuse 12 freshmen into its roster this season. After allowing three runs in as many innings to start the game, Pollard’s squad picked it up on the mound as a squad, allowing nine total hits. Duke’s bats answered back by scoring four runs in the first three innings. Sophomore outfielder Michael Smiciklas led the Blue Devils at the plate, going 3-for-4 with one RBI and one run on the night. Despite Smiciklas’ numbers, Duke trailed 5-4 entering the bottom of the ninth, but evened the score with a two-out single up the middle by freshman catcher Chris Proctor. The run proved to be the last run of the night, as a ground-out See BASEBALL on Page 5

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Army to give Duke another look at triple option Brian Pollack The Chronicle Army head coach Jeff Monken is in his second year at the helm at West Point, and though his 5-12 overall record doesn’t say so, he has the Black Knights trending in the right direction. Army will host Duke Saturday at noon for the first time in six years, looking to improve on its 1-4 record. Coming off a 4-8 season in Monken’s inaugural campaign and without offensive cogs Angel Santiago, Larry Dixon and Terry Baggett—a trio which combined for 2,487 yards and 21 touchdowns in 2014—expectations were fairly low for the Black Knights heading into this year. But a closer inspection of its 1-4 record reveals that Army has not exactly been a punching bag for its opponents. The Black Knights’ four losses have come by a total of just 16 points, and they have outscored their opponents this season overall.

Even in last week’s 20-14 loss to 4-1 Penn State, Army was driving in Nittany Lion territory for the go-ahead score before the offense stalled—and the Blue Devils could be in for a rude awakening if they choose to overlook the Black Knights. “It’s a big, challenging week again, and [we are] going to be playing an Army team that really could be undefeated right now if you look at their tape,” Duke head coach David Cutcliffe said. “They’ve played well enough to win every game, and obviously we know they haven’t, they know they haven’t. But they’re what you would call a great culture.... As you watch these guys play, they’re talented and they’re relentless.” Like most of the other military schools, Army features a triple-option attack as the staple of its offense. The Black Knights have been using a dualquarterback system, splitting snaps See SCOUTING on Page 5

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just 37 passing attempts. Against a stiff Duke defense that has only allowed six red zone trips through five games, the Black Knights cannot afford to cough up the ball. “You can’t have [turnovers]. They end up being a dead play if you don’t turn it over,” Manken said at his press conference Tuesday. “That’s what happened on the very last drive of the game. On first down, we fumbled and the ball hit the ground and [we] had second-and-10. We’ve got to take care of the ball.” On defense, the Black Knights’ run-stopping has made tremendous strides from last year. Army—which runs a 3-4 defensive scheme—allowed its opponents to average 5.3 yards per carry in 2014, a number that has been trimmed to 4.1 this season. The Black Knights return defensive backs Jeremy Timpf and Chris Carnegie, who accounted for six interceptions last year and have already combined for 58 tackles this season. Their activity in defending both the running and passing game—as well as the emergence of junior linebacker Andrew King, who ranks second in the nation with 10 tackles for loss—could pose problems for a Duke offense that struggled to run the ball against Boston College last weekend. “I think the whole defense has been playing better and that helps King play his position better. When other guys are playing their gaps he can play his and make some plays,” Moken said. “Personally, I think [he] is a big leader on our team and is probably one of the biggest leaders we have on defense.”

under center between senior A.J. Schurr and sophomore Ahmad Bradshaw. Bradshaw currently leads the team with 397 yards on the ground and 194 more through the air after not seeing any varsity action a year ago. Schurr— who started his first game as a junior last season—has gotten about one-third of the action at quarterback and is tied with Bradshaw for the team lead with four rushing touchdowns, including a 56-yard score against Penn State. Duke is already familiar defending the triple-option offense after limiting Georgia Tech’s top-ranked rushing attack to less than three yards per carry two weeks ago in Durham. But Cutcliffe pointed to the complexity of Army’s triple-option formations, specifically the use of tight-end sets and unbalanced alignments on the offensive line. “With Georgia Tech, they only had a couple formations we had to worry about, but with Army—they have a multitude,” linebacker Dwayne Norman said. “It’s always just being on my toes and it has me thinking a little more than I wanted to, so I want to get a little bit more comfortable with their system.” Despite a strong rushing attack that averages 5.6 yards per carry and an offense that has produced touchdowns on 12 of its 13 red zone trips thus far, Army has only put up 27.6 points per game—a figure lower than that of the much-maligned Blue Devil offense. Turnovers have been the major culprit— the Black Knights have lost six fumbles in addition to three interceptions on sudoku_495A

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and two strikeouts by the home squad ended the game in the 10th. “I thought Michael Smiciklas looked really good tonight,” Pollard said. “Offensively, there is no doubt in my mind we’ve made a big jump.” Despite giving up the tying run so late in the game, the Czech Republic is enjoying its time in the United States with a number of firsts for its players. The team will travel to Wilmington, N.C., Wednesday to play Coastal Carolina, giving players a chance to “czech” some items off their bucket-lists. “They’ll get to see the beach. Obviously they don’t get to do that [in the Czech Republic],” Griffin said.

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the fact that many of them will go on to live off campus in later years or become graduate students living local to universities either at Duke or elsewhere. In these positions, state and local issues become relevant and staying informed is in the best interests of any citizen. Indeed, Duke is the largest and most

Editorial influential institution in Durham, a relationship most apparent in the fact that it has long been Durham’s largest employer, dwarfing the next several employers. In recent years, students have thrown themselves into local volunteering, service-learning classes and community activism. Duke has commendably enabled and promoted these avenues of engagement. Yet even with our involvement in Durham, the asymmetries of power manifest in how many other students think of Durham either with apathy or

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condescension. To the former, Duke students should encourage education about Durham’s history as a city of cultural import in the broader South. Through classes and lectures, shining light on the city’s history and realities lays a foundation for better involvement and attitudes. The Franklin Humanities Institute recently hosted speakers from the Durham Living Wage project to speak to Duke students on gentrification as a human rights issue, and we see a call implicitly made to Duke students to concern themselves with the issues developing just beyond the borders of campus. The University best serves students through the programs that come out of the Office of Civic Engagement and the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs. We recommend that students be given the opportunity to learn about the history of Durham through more curricular offerings and perhaps through Orientation Week events. It is important to lay a foundation of knowledge that pushes students to join in the programs that engage Durham’s culture and community.

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ince the start of Israeli statehood in 1948, the country has been in constant conflict with its Arab neighbors and the Palestinian population living within and immediately outside her borders. At the conclusion of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 (the fifth time Israel had been invaded in fifteen years), the international community began to look for a diplomatic solution to

in the region (from Hezbollah to the government of Iran) require staunch, unified support of Israel’s right to exist in order for the Two State Solution to guarantee peace. Until the Arab nations unite as supporters, rather than fighters, of a Jewish state, Israel should walk away from the Two State Solution. The second and larger complication with the Two

Max Schreiber PLACE BETS OFF! prevent perpetual war. World powers, specifically those in the West, agreed that any successful proposal would hinge on three key principles: Any agreement would, one, preserve Israeli statehood; two, establish a Palestinian state neighboring Israel; and, three, ensure long term peace in the region for all stakeholders involved. Out of these initial conversations materialized the “Two State Solution”— a call to split Israel using its pre-1967 borders into a Jewish state and a Palestinian state in exchange for an official recognition of Israel’s right to exist by its anti-Semitic, war-hungry neighbors. The Two State Solution has been embraced for over 40 years by our nation’s foreign policy establishment and presidents both blue and red. However, consistent adversarial action by Palestinians and aggression by theocratic neighbors reveal the Two State Solution to be impossible, and as such, it should no longer be treated as a serious diplomatic solution. Israel, as well as the United States, should discontinue trying to make peace with those who don’t believe in Israel’s right to exist, and the U.S. should reaffirm the safety and sovereignty of one state, one Israel. The first—and also the smaller—complication with the Two State Solution stems from the middle east nations in close proximity to Israel who, since 1948, have largely seen eye to eye on only two things: their shared sharia law and common hatred for Israel. Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia have all taken their turn undermining Israel internationally, funding Israel’s enemies and attacking Israel directly over the past 60plus years. Even worse, the callously weak foreign policy of President Obama has inspired Iran, and to a lesser extent Syria, to get more antagonistic toward Israel: Iran’s “Supreme Leader” has committed to wiping Israel off the map in the next twenty-five years and, freshly funded with $150 billion from the Obama administration, that goal is unfortunately far more attainable. While many Middle East nations (most notably, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt) have warmed to the idea of a Jewish state, the two state solution cannot work without a unified Arabic belief in Israel’s right to exist. It takes only one nation to undermine any agreement by funding, inspiring and protecting the Muslim agitators and aggressors who prevent peace. The diverse factions of anti-Israel groups

State Solution is the people sitting directly across from Israel at the negotiating table: Palestinians. Recently, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas decided to abandon the Oslo Agreement and stop honoring peace agreements with Israel. The increasing influence of Hamas in the Palestinian Authority has pushed Abbas and his leadership team to be more radical, aggressive and demanding in how they approach relations with Israel. Secondly, the Palestinians have continued to be violent agitators, attacking the Israeli citizenry with weapons from rockets to knives. In a tragic attempted execution last week, a Palestinian thug stabbed Israeli parents in front of their children. The important takeaway, however, is that this behavior isn’t new but rather consistent—Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are at a standstill largely because a coalition of religious fanatics and Palestinian bourgeoisie literally don’t believe Israel has any right to exist. They write it in their press. They teach it to their kids. The Palestinian leadership simply hasn’t shown the desire, or at least the ability, to commit their greater constituency to support Israeli statehood. Therefore, the Two State Solution is simply a trap for Israel—ceding land and sovereignty to the Palestinians only helps to prepare the enemy for its eventual invasion in an attempt to seize the remainder of “its” land. To conclude, there’s one last reason Israel should no longer entertain the Two State Solution—it’s called victory. For 60-plus years, Israel has been invaded and pummeled by national jihadi fronts. Israel has never invaded another nation (it’s armed forces are defense forces) and has expanded in size only after seizing the land it gained through fending off armed offenders. The nations and the people who want Israel to cede land must remember that Israel wouldn’t be the size it is without their own aggressive actions. Decisions have consequences. War creates drastic changes. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinians and the like all made conscious decisions to try to wipe Israel off the map—and Israel owes nothing to those nations for defending herself. Max Schreiber is a Pratt senior. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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A peek into my closet Tomorrow, Duke celebrates National Coming Out Day with a plaza party and the famous “Love = Love” shirts. It’s also a chance to publicly declare your sexual orientation and gender identity. In order to begin discovering that I’m gay, I had to ask: what is my closet? What did it look like, and what does it look like now? For all of us out there that might be in some way “closeted,” this day is for you. I want to invite you to take a peek inside my closet. I lived my life as

carrying the weight of a closet. I’m writing this article not to add pressure for you to “come out” but to let you know that you’re not alone. To know that I feel for you, even if I have to do it from a distance. You know your closet better than anyone, and while that space might be small, remember that it is yours. Because for me, I didn’t just walk through one door and magically become “comfortable with myself.” I’m still not completely “comfortable with

Seize the grid, Duke

nvironmentalism sometimes seems like an effort of words: we’re experts at the buzzword battle-cry, green war paint streaking our cheeks. The eco-friendly lexicon is all over campus. Sustainable this, green that, and did we mention it’s local? Certainly, in many cases, Duke doesn’t just talk the talk—it walks the walk. From LEED certifications to sustainable food procurement to reductions in our carbon footprint, Duke is striving to be a leader in sustainability. A look at Duke’s electricity

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a “closeted gay” for a year and half at Duke. I went to my engineering classes. I went to SLG parties. I made amazing friends and felt like I had a community in Randolph, but I still felt separate, like I was always guarding something. My freshman year, I heard stories about a guy getting punched in the face on the Shooters dance floor for kissing another guy. I heard about another freshman getting “fag” vandalized across his door. I was so terrified of being seen in public with my boyfriend that we spent Valentine’s Day on the floor of the Randolph guest bathroom. Instead of a dining table, we had a toilet. Instead of a bed, we laid on the tile floor. This was the physical manifestation of my closet: sufficient for some activities but definitely not for truly expressing love. These feelings were real. There are others, both at Duke and in the stories on the news, who experience acute survival threats and fears from coming out of their closets—being financially cut off from parents, banishment and shunning from religious community, being misgendered on a daily basis or being stereotyped and targeted by police. There are many dangerous and painful realities that keep people in closets. While I consider myself “out,” there is definitely still baggage left inside my closet. However, that baggage helps me remember that there are other people out there who are experiencing what I felt on the floor of Randolph’s guest bathroom. For the woman who’s too afraid to explain to the world that she’s asexual. To the boy with the stiletto heels in the back of his dorm room closet. To the closeted queer woman whose parents made it clear that her “coming out” would equate to her “moving out.” To the people that my background as a white, upper-class, cis-male doesn’t represent who feel isolated here at Duke. This day is for you. So for anyone who’s feeling isolated, know that you’re not the only one

myself,” but today I want to celebrate the steps I took to get where I am. It was getting myself to say the words “I am gay” into a mirror for the first time. It was telling my parents that they’d hear me say “I do” to a man one day, not a woman. It was watching YouTube “Coming Out” videos on my iPad every night for two years. It was realizing that other queer people came before me, that I wasn’t the only one going through this. I’m so thankful for my mentors— M.C. Bousquette, Ronnie Wimberly and Matt Barnett to name a few—who were willing to sit down and talk with me, care for me and challenge me. When I would explain that “it’s only a small percentage of my identity,” you met me where I was at and posed that our identities aren’t numbers; they’re intersectional works of art that are continually being painted. I’m thinking now about the moments I’ve been able to celebrate “the authentic me.” How amazing did it feel to first kiss my boyfriend in public? How free did it feel to dance at Pinhook for the first time, surrounded by some of my best friends? How empowering is it to be able to finally have the words to explain myself to people, without the moment of panic that came every time someone used the word “gay?” Tomorrow let’s celebrate—not explicitly “coming out”—but the entire journey of discovering who we are and each small step that we’ve taken towards discovering ourselves. Let’s celebrate all the people who’ve fought before us for representation, while acknowledging that some queer people still lack representation even within queer communities. Let’s celebrate authenticity, love and the quest for these moments of truth: a celebration of the resilient struggle to truly live the words “I am me” whether in or out of your closet. all of us can truly feel “I am me.” Tyler Nelson is a Pratt senior and the President of Blue Devils United.

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supply, however, paints a picture that is not so dazzlingly green. Think about this the next time you flip on the lights, charge your laptop or put in a load of laundry: all of the University’s electricity is purchased from Duke Energy, and almost all of that is produced from nuclear and coal energy plants. Earlier this year, non-profit news outlet “Mother Jones” ranked Duke Energy the worst climate offender for having the largest annual carbon footprint. This makes sense considering that 45 percent of Duke Energy’s generation portfolio came from coal in 2011, and combustion of this dirty fuel accounted for nearly a quarter of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2012. In its ambitious Climate Action Plan (CAP), which details the University’s goal to become a carbon neutral campus, Duke recognizes the significance of its electrical usage. In fact, over 50 percent of Duke’s total greenhouse gas emissions comes from its use of electricity. While Duke has taken an active stance on many emissions reduction strategies— replacing old buses with more efficient models, developing carbon offsets initiatives, offering sustainably sourced food—its approach to electricity purchase has been more passive. In this regard, the 2009 CAP softly asserts that “Duke should continue to urge, monitor, and review Duke Energy’s progress towards emissions reductions.” This passive policy could work if Duke Energy were a climate leader in prioritizing the transition to clean energy. But instead of making rapid advancements in renewable technology and generation, Duke Energy is moving at a slow crawl. While it is busy spilling coal ash into North Carolina rivers, the energy company seems to have no time to make significant progress in adding renewable capacity; in 2031, renewables will account for only 3 percent of its energy mix. This is not good enough, and Duke University needs to do more than wait patiently for a change that seems fated to arrive too late. In response, the Seize the Grid campaign is calling on Duke to transition

its power supply to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030. Campaign leader Claire Wang (Trinity ‘19) asserts, “We should take active steps to invest in clean energy, rather than defer to fossil-dependent companies like Duke Energy to make our energy choices for us.” To achieve this goal, the University can enter into power purchase agreements with utilities that produce renewable energy. We can also more ambitiously pursue on-site renewable power generation, such as solar PV and biogas (the 2009 CAP only

explored a 4MW installation of solar PV panels on campus). Seize the Grid is one of two campaigns under the Duke Climate Coalition umbrella. For the past three years, its partner campaign, Divest Duke, has been advocating that Duke University divest its endowment from the dirtiest 200 publicly traded fossil fuel companies. The Climate Coalition is excited about the partnership between Divest Duke and Seize the Grid because they are natural complements. Both are active measures the University should take to demonstrate its climate leadership, but where divestment is, in a sense, a subtractive policy, Seize the Grid is an additive one. In its 2015 rejection of Divest Duke’s divestment proposal, the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility argued that the University’s tangible efforts to reduce emissions—like the ones previously mentioned—have a greater global impact than the stated symbolic gesture of divestment. But divestment and emissions reductions aren’t an either-or scenario. When we take our investments out of dirty energy and we make cleaner electricity purchasing choices, we not only make measurable reductions to our carbon footprint, but we also send a powerful signal to other Universities, energy companies and the global community at large that we are committed to a clean energy future. That is when Duke University will truly walk the walk. If you want to tell Duke University to clean up its electricity act, sign the online petition and join the campaign on Thursday, October 14th, and Friday, October 15th. For its official launch, Seize the Grid campaign members will be in front of the Allen Building collecting photo petitions from members of the Duke community in order to send this powerful, visual message to the administration. Be one of the faces of our clean energy future and call on Duke to Seize the Grid. Rachel Weber is a Trinity senior and the President of the Duke Climate Coalition. Her column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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