June 6, 2016 - Opinion

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Reflect on the real

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hen I first took the job as editor-in-chief, my friends told me that I was just like Rory Gilmore, the fictional highachieving journalist in Gilmore Girls.

While certainly a favorable comparison, I soon discovered it to be completely empty. Despite the show’s frequent pop culture references and portrayal of a relatable mother-daughter duo, it

Devils and hatred of Chapel Hill, while recess articles can inspire a love for the arts. And opinion articles especially can give our whole campus something to talk about—if you don’t believe me, just check Yik Yak. At The Chronicle, our job is to provide you with the most accurate, real knowledge to inform you, entertain you, amuse you, anger you—and to give you something to

Claire Ballentine EDITOR’S NOTE somewhat lacks in realism. Stressful late nights and problems with unreliable sources are never shown; not once do viewers see Rory wanting to pull her hair out after going over a difficult article or sighing in frustration after her computer glitches for the third time in a single evening.

To the dismay of many avid fans, Rory and her perfect life are simply not real. Although I would certainly love to be Rory (have you seen her boyfriends throughout the series?), I’m beginning to realize that living in an imperfect, flawed world with real news events is much better.

Fictional events and characters may be intriguing and entertaining, but they fail to ignite true passion like a well-written piece of journalism can.

Breaking news stories can provoke our emotions and keep us in touch with the rest of the world. Sports articles tie Duke together in mutual support for the Blue

reflect on. Whether it was a Nobel prize win, a Bowl victory or a marathon of protests, this has been an notable year, and I have no doubt that next year will be equally eventful, so you’re not going to want to miss out.

Too often in college do we get so caught up in our own lives that we neglect everything and everyone else around us as we bury ourselves in our work. However, The Chronicle can help you keep in touch with reality.

Although your professors can teach you biochemistry and physics, a large part of your education comes from navigating the flurry of campus activities ranging from protests to basketball wins to political scandals. And we’re here to report on all of them as best as we can, guiding you toward the best chance to form your own informed opinion.

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Living in a bubble may be ignorant bliss, but I encourage you to stay informed about what’s going on at Duke. The events on this campus might even rival what you see on Netflix. And in return, we at The Chronicle promise to provide the most important and accurate information, serve as a campus watchdog and give you something to reflect on.

While Duke may not be a quirky as Stars Hollow and while we may not all talk as fast as Lorelai and Rory, there sure is a lot to talk about here.

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Torches and pitchforks

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he usual pathway to your 8:30 a.m.

Chinese Literature class is blocked by a score of students diving into piles of fake money to protest income inequality. The five bucks you spent on a front-row ticket to see a prolific arch-conservative guest lecturer goes to waste when the event is abruptly cancelled due to a safe-space violation. The Halloween costume you planned to wear to conceal the after-effects of two straight months of partying is deemed off-

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entitled nature of today’s youth. A study published in 2013 by Sage Journals concluded that “youth materialism” has increased over the generations, reaching historically high levels amongst millennials, all the while as “work centrality steadily declined, suggesting a growing discrepancy between the desire for material rewards and the willingness to do the work usually required to earn them.” So they had a basis for their concerns.

EDITOR’S NOTE limits on the count of being culturally unaware.

Welcome to college, where it’s become just about impossible to maneuver without lighting, quelling, spreading or being burned by oncampus fires. (And no, I don’t mean the kind of fires like those started in Duke University East Campus laundry machines.)

The generations before us have played the role of a modern-day Prometheus, gifting us opportunities to light our fires with liberating technology, unorthodox scholastic and career possibilities and endless support.

Because our parents often felt impotent or unheard in their rebellious teenaged years, they wanted nothing more than for us to have the opposite experience. The world was prepared to listen to our interests and opinions; it had given us the fire-starting tools to be heard...and then instantly regretted it, as we Doodle-Jumped our responsibilities to nurture and effectively use these means of self-expression. We instead became what is affectionately known as “GenMe”—selfobsessed, self-important and selfish.

For years, our generation tuned out our elders as they railed about the apathetic,

And yet, it was the youth vote that was undeniably decisive in electing the country’s first African-American president in 2008 and 2012, according to the Center for Research and Information on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. And it is the generation of millennials that is the highest educated and the most incentivized to create success, despite the fact that we are earning less today than previous generations, as average salaries are down almost 10 percent in just a decade. The flammable materials that might have led previous generations to doubt both our interest in the world, as well as in our abilities to shape it have become the means by which we might change everything. Through the power made achievable with social media, endless forms of artistic expression and avantgarde paths within education, we millennials have become confident that we could usher in a new world order and that we, unlike the preceding generation, might be heard.

Today, we arrive on college campuses, and we are heard. It’s an entirely different landscape than that which welcomed our parents’ generation, the result of being trusted with

these new powerful means of broadcasting our voices and interconnecting our communities.

We’re able to demand conversations with the presidents of our universities, work to effect meaningful change in university policies and protest just about anything without serious interference from authority.

We are the most audible generation since Adam and Eve, and I’ll bet even each of them probably couldn’t wait for the other to shut up.

So, when we demand that “every week a faculty member come forward and publicly admit their participation in racism inside the classroom” in Guilford’s student newspaper, when we claim that the cultural appropriation of cafeteria sushi at Oberlin is a racial microaggression and when we protest that there might be uncomfortable, radical speakers at an “Uncomfortable Learning” speaker series at Williams, we are most definitely heard.

In far too many instances, we’ve squandered the chance to most effectively use our millennial gifts in the ignition of worthwhile fires. College campuses have become highly flammable these days; a single thoughtless or reactive spark can easily become a wildfire. We’ve become overeager fire-starters, often using our Promethean fire to mold theologicallydense armor so as to never feel challenged, and to hone misguided spears of protest that miss their chance at effecting change. Those generations who had trusted us to shape the world do, indeed, hear us. And as a result, 21st-century Prometheans call us soft, divisive, querulous, reactive and distracted.

We don’t have a problem of being heard; rather, we have been over-heard, which has stripped the potency of the heat and sight of the flames from our metaphorical fires.

Stiflingly armored and unwisely armed, we

have demanded far more than we have seen done. Of the eight demands made by those who occupied Duke’s Allen Building and Abele Quad in April, only two were met: a public apology and amnesty for the occupiers themselves. Despite sit-ins, rallies and the #MillionStudentMarch calling for tuition-free college, GenMe has yet to forge any progress in making it a reality. And there was no victory in causing one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people to quit teaching at Yale while students protested culturally-biased Halloween costumes.

We are heard, but not listened to.

Perhaps if we listened to ourselves, we might understand why.

When Prometheus gave humans fire, the Greek god presumably differentiated between its uses: signals, heat, metallurgy, cooking, light, protection, battle, Frankenstein attacks, Khaleesi reveals, even drunken Myrtle Beach bonfires. Understanding the abilities, strength and potential danger of the flame they had been granted, humans went on to create, spread and put out fires in order to serve their various purposes.

We incendiary college students must understand that our passionate actions and reactions on campus are not like those of the generation that came before us, the generation that handed us the torches we often take for granted. We are, indeed, heard.

We wield a great deal of power, entrusted to us by a world reliant on our confidence, our drive and our tools. The disconnect lies in our failure to understand that it is the content and the purpose of the fire, not the blaze itself, that determines whether our spark is not merely heard, but is ultimately acknowledged, respected and realized.

Jackson Prince is a Trinity sophomore and the Editorial Page Editor of The Chronicle.

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Through a lens

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ach photograph has a story; a context. No photograph is meaningless. For me, this is the most alluring aspect of a photography. Why did the photographer want to capture that nightstand?

Hansung Kang EDITOR’S NOTE Why did they think that this person staring at a palm tree in broad daylight was interesting? Whenever I see a photograph, I wonder about the intent, the context and the technique that was used to capture the scene.

What is the meaning of this photograph?

In photography, meaning is rarely articulated at the moment when the photo is taken. It is the

sudden inspiration and a gut feeling that makes the photographer take the photo. We see an interesting scene—maybe a bird soaring over a skyscraper, or perhaps an ant mounting an apple—and snap the photo. Once the photo has been taken, we analyze what beautiful moment we have captured, and find a meaning that only our guts knew at the time of capture.

For example, in the bird picture, we may only see the sun and the sky with silhouetted bird and the skyscraper.

We feel a sense of freedom because of the bird, but we may also feel a sense of oppression because of the silhouette and the harsh sunlight. The photograph may also make us feel like we are imprisoned beneath the steel structures, as if those black silhouetted skyscrapers are like the bars in the prison. But outside we may see hope as we see the freedom of the bird and the light shining towards us.

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meaning and symbolism through a photograph that was taken from a moment of inspiration at a moment in time that will never be replicated again. Ordinary things we see every day—buildings, birds, apples, flowers, whatever—through the frame of a photograph, become extraordinary. By narrowing our field of view and bringing a fraction of our sight into attention, photographs give us the power to see things we would have easily missed and experience a world we could have never guessed existed.

Sometimes these worlds are difficult to come by and capture. However, when these moments happen, the results are extraordinary and breathtaking. Capturing these moments isn’t easy—it’s like fishing. We often wake up early in the morning to capture that perfect light at the crack of dawn, or to capture that misty morning air above the tall grasses damp with dew. Other times, we set up our tripods and point the camera towards a city during a thunderstorm and wait for lightning to strike the tops of skyscrapers. Perhaps we camp out in the middle of the desert and wait for the moon to set, or stay focused for the Milky Way to position itself perfectly above the barren tree, so that the tree branches seem like they’re holding up the galaxy. However, when the perfect moment is reached and the shutter released, often the results are astonishing, opening up a whole new universe of seeing our world.

While photography can capture fleeting moments to be written forever into history, it can also capture history and bring a forgotten and neglected world into light. Photographs of tiny towns, natural wastelands and hidden sceneries often have a creepy or eerie atmosphere, but also can be quite beautiful. This time, the relative stillness of the world makes us feel the awe.

Think of Chernobyl, where photographs of the stillness of decay, of buildings overrun by vegetation, give our visual senses a splash of rich colors and details that we would easily dismiss in real life.

Not only is photography an important tool for audiences to explore worlds they have never seen before, but it is also important for the photographer.

Through the lens, photographers have an outlet for expression. Each photographer has his or her own unique style and technique, and they can express their viewpoints and what they see through photography to tell part of a story about themselves or others.

Nature has created the eye—the sensory organ that gathers information about light, allowing the host organism guide itself around the universe. Then, mankind created the camera, giving machine the ability to sense light. Ever since its inception, we have relentlessly explored the field, experimenting with various methods of capturing the fleeting moments in life in permanence. This novel invention has allowed us to look at the world from a new perspective, opening up an alternate universe to us, allowing us to experience the world in a familiar yet wildly different way.

Photography has evolved, and continues to do so.

Despite the influx of over-posed selfies and overused filters, the field and its core ideals grow, and our eyes improve. With a fraction of a second captured into a special arrangement of colors and lines, the oncemeaningless receives significance, the neglected enjoy the spotlight Hansung Kang is a Trinity junior and Photo Editor for The Chronicle.

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Coach K, get me a dream job

y now, I’m sure the graduates of the greatest undergraduate class to grace the hallowed halls of Duke University since 2015 have comfortably settled in for a good few weeks...or months...maybe a gap year or two... of Netflix and Chill after a rough semester of pretending to do work, while squeezing in the last of the unofficial Duke

fellow worry-warts, for you went to Duke and that means having as the pinnacle of success. There’s also the time that you been blessed with the tremendous privilege of sharing the same determined (as a group obviously) that uploading pics from gravel-strewn detours as the university’s A-list celebrities—no, the Asia Prime party was probably not the move to make. Or not the ones who have christened a particular West Campus how about the pivotal moment when you all decided to leave bench for the practice of“suns out, guns out”—the taller ones! the remnants of one last home game celebration in K-Ville So forget the weather, you’ve always got a conversation topic like one, big dysfunctional family? It’s safe to say that you, my stored up for a rainy day—pun intended. sixteeners, are #SquadGoals.

Finally, Coach K urges you to conjure up memories So, when you finally realize that the best four years of your from your middle school bullying assemblies—if only all life are really and truly over, remember that great things still lie those prepubescent haters could see your Duke diploma— ahead, follow your heart, it’s all about a good attitude, failure is MONDAYS WITH MILLENNIALS and recall that there’s power in numbers. Before signing inevitable, surround yourself with decent (preferably wealthy) off, Coach K challenges all you real-world folk to tackle the people, there’s always graduate school and, most importantly, graduation requirements. world’s most critical issues as a team. While I consider this you’ll never, ever be Grayson Allen.

The timeframe of your little staycation, of course, is fully a valuable piece of advice, I personally think the Class of dependent upon the start date of that prestigious upcoming 2016 has already demonstrated its fair share of teamwork This millennial would like to inform Coach K that if job offer or fellowship or partially completed application to throughout the years. he’s looking for a basketball manager who’s been to as many Abercrombie and Fitch that I’m sure each and every one of Nothing says, “We’re all in this together...until I get a Super games as there were Russian majors in the graduating class, you snagged during Fall semester faster than you can say, Day,” like your collective decision to designate Morgan-Stanley I’m available!

“You goin’ out?”

Congratulations, by the way, on managing to achieve Interim Chaplain: the one thing that everyone expected of you the moment you stepped foot onto East Campus. Well, unless you have a Imam Abdul Waheed legitimate (and multimillion dollar) excuse for dropping out ahwaheed721@gmail.com of school early because your name’s a reminder of a pop song people forgot (Mike who?) or you’re a 6’5” benchwarmer 406 Swift Avenue l 919-613-6778 turned buzzer-beating heartthrob whose name rhymes with Program Coordinator: Kiah Glenn “Chasin’ Gallon”—and I’m not referring to the La Croix you studentaffairs.duke.edu/ @dukemuslimlife Duke CML kiah.glenn@duke.edu use to wash down your Crat on a given Wednesday night. muslimlife Assuming that you are neither, then go ahead and pat yourselves on the back for four years of heroically braving the treacherous journey from Edens to Main—excuse me, Abele— Quad, for selflessly stumbling out of bed by 8:20 a.m. in order to muster just enough attendance points to pass Italian 203 and gallantly convincing Shooters bouncers on many a night that your BFFL Kimmy would be truly heartbroken to hear that Durham authorities had gotten word of your fake ID. Such feats are only attained with the utmost fortitude, self-discipline and character. Our peer institutions may have bigger endowments, higher rates of recruitment from the nation’s top consulting firms and more progressive stances on dismemberment of social hierarchies, but we Dukies possess something those nerds will never have: a nationally ranked sports team whose mascot doesn’t share its name with a popular autumn vegetable (no offense, Yale).

Jummah Prayers ~ Eid Celebrations ~ Retreats Speaking of things that have absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with the future success of any 2016 graduate who Speakers and Scholars ~ Islamic Awareness Monty isn’t headed for the NBA (so like 0?), our favorite and most Triangle MSA Trips ~ Campus Wide Fastathon ~ Halaqahs transparent Duke endowment, Mike Krzyzewski, had quite a bit Spiritual Counseling ~ Social Events to say on the matter during this year’s cleverly disguised university marketing event...er, “Commencement Ceremony.”

If you were semi-coherent during Coach K’s speech—and even he acknowledged that you probably weren’t—you may recall his gentle reminder that your A’s, published research, President Farhan Khan / farhan.khan@duke.edu dukemas.com @dukemsa Duke MSA club presidencies, and MCAT scores will always pale in comparison to the “hospital-volunteering, miracle-making, gold-s**tting” revenue machine otherwise known as the Duke men’s basketball team.

Okay, so he didn’t say those exact words. However, if Duke activist culture has taught me anything, it’s the importance of critically reading between the lines of any message put forth by a wealthy white male-identified person because he will almost certainly use his lack of melanin to prevent you from achieving your full potential as an individual who may or may not have Cherokee heritage on your mother’s half-brother’s side.

Thus, after an analysis that would given even the most outspoken Facebook ranter the warm fuzzies, I present you, Class of 2016, with the only gift my non-finance internship would afford me: a “TL;DR” version of Coach K’s ode to the greatness of Ay-son Ballin’ and Co., despite their inability to score a national championship this year (here’s looking at you, Harry Giles).

On a blissful day in early May, the winningest coach of all time articulates, “Life is like a basketball game, you never know what you’re gonna get…unless you’re one of the greatest coaches the world has ever seen and your annual recruitment process is always on fleek.” He later goes on to pronounce, “My team bad.

My team hood. My team do stuff that your team wish it could.”

Sing Handel's Messiah International tour during spring break However, this initial inspirational jargon was only the start of the Berlioz Te Deum and Poulenc Gloria Brahms and Kodaly with orchestra groundbreaking discourse that rocked our worlds.

Class of 2016, add this to your sack of humble brags, “expect Info & Ice Cream Info & Ice Cream great things.” That’s right, by virtue of your alma mater’s most 5:30 pm, Aug. 31 outside Duke Chapel 8 pm, Aug. 28, Biddle Rm. 104 recent U.S. News Ranking of eighth (suck it, UPenn), you can safely assume that you won’t end up on the streets anytime chapel.duke.edu/worship/music/chapel-choir music.duke.edu/ensembles/chorale soon—unless more of Wall Street’s dirty little secrets end up on your morning Skimm in the near future. The rest of you can sleep soundly in your Brooklyn apartments knowing that your spot at Call for information on joining the choirs. the corner card table at the nonprofit of your dreams isn’t going anywhere...at least until one of the wobbly legs collapses.

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On radical realness

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rowing up, I remember learning that being gay made me lesser.

I remember ironing my voice into straightness, my wrists into rigidity, my mannerisms into masculinity. I remember switching out the pronouns to the love songs in my head. I remember acting straight—turning self-deception into a piece of performance art. I remember

of authenticity that I once tried to straighten-out. On rewriting the lyrics to the songs in my head. On being all of myself, all of the time. On breaking the silence.

This semester, this column is my way of breaking that silence. It’s my way of contributing another voice to the growing chorus working to penetrate a deep, historied silencing of queer

Tanner Lockhead NOT STRAIGHT TALK feeling alone.

I remember the silence. I remember the sound of complicit hush meeting homophobic slurs in the middle school locker room, the high school hallway, the campus plaza. The quiet deflection of personal questions at the family dinner table. The breaks in my speech after wondering if that last word sounded a little too gay.

I remember the pressure. I remember believing that my sexual orientation left no additional room for imperfections or mistakes or being merely average. If my gayness makes me less than, what do I have to do to be enough?

I remember the day I realized that my love is political. That honesty is radical.

That pride is not an isolated embrace of my identity, but rather an everyday battle against the shame that taught me to hide the colors that make me whole.

I have no desire to forget—only to unlearn these lessons of insecurity. I’m working on reclaiming those wrinkles

identities.

But it’s something more than that, too.

I am constantly reminded at Duke of the power of radical authenticity, of courage, of vulnerability to light a spark—a spark that inspires the kind of growth I hoped I would encounter during my four short years on campus. This column is about finding that spark.

For me, I remember such sparks originating from uncomfortable and unchartered discussions with friends who look, talk and think differently than I do. And, yes, sometimes these sparks originate from articles in the opinion section. What they all share is a commitment to radical openness and a faith that others will also embrace the difficulty and beauty of getting real with each other.

On their own, these sparks burn out.

For me, kindling support mattered: upperclassmen mentors taking the extra time, the unconditional love of family, the seemingly exogenous growth of a nation

that was ready for LGBTQ progress right when I needed it most.

In some ways, the fact that I’m writing this column seems like an accident, like the product of a series of fortunate events that the freshman version of myself would have considered beyond conceivable possibility.

With the tagline “not straight talk,” my bi-weekly column will touch on how queerness intersects with life inside and beyond Duke. It’s a space to reflect and analyze religious life, social spaces, national and state politics, and what it means to navigate Duke as a queer student. I’ll do my best to create sparks— but that isn’t enough.

Sparks are not created or sustained in a vacuum, and moments of growth don’t happen on their own. They require work.

But what kind of work is that, exactly?

It is the work of vulnerability and empathy, but for all our strengths, emotional fluency regularly falls out of practice.

To the class of 2020, a lesson that many students before you have learned is that everyone’s Duke is not the same. We all bring talent, intellect and the ability to engage deeply and critically. But we also bring stories, identity markers, experiences and beliefs that make us hugely, fantastically different.

Our Duke is at its best when we do more than offer talent, intellect, or dispassionate analysis. We’re already good at those things.

Our Duke is best when vulnerability is reciprocated, and when we meet each other with radical affirmation. Our Duke is best when we offer our own stories, our own challenges and our own perspectives

even when it’s difficult. Our Duke is best when people of difference work to confront areas of mutual blindness with humility and empathy. Our Duke is best when we help each other through the growing pains, supporting without expectations, because when you step on campus this August, these people will become your Duke family.

In our insecurities, our faiths, our doubts, our anxieties and our passions, it can take a long time to figure out that we’re not alone. But it doesn’t always have to. We are not born with a fixed quantity of empathy or a maximum capacity for growth, so don’t save them for later.

We’re good at being smart. Let’s get better at being real.

Tanner Lockhead is a Trinity senior.

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resident Barack Obama, on December 10, 2009, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway and boldly proclaimed, “We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor...those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is

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The follies of compromise courageously and carefully. If we fail to shift the paradigm affecting our collective unconscious, then we provide leeway towards burning an integral element of Duke University to ashes— freedom of expression. Open societies are predicated on the idea that freedom of expression and thought is essential in

CARTHAGO DELENDA EST hard.” While he was referencing the necessity of upholding the Geneva Conventions during armed conflict, the same can undoubtedly be said about the irrefutable moral obligation to preserve, protect and defend the timeless precept of intellectual diversity and openness at institutions of higher learning.

Most pertinently, ensuring that the unsustainable trend of fearing public expressions of divergent viewpoints finally comes to an end—especially within our new freshmen class—should be a priority for all students in order to prevent the rise of vapid ideological echo chambers.

Ancient legends of the first century anno Domini claim that the Roman Emperor Nero of the Julio-Claudian dynasty played a fiddle as he watched Rome burn the ground, of his own doing. The rampant spread of antiintellectualism across college campuses in favor of imperially pushing a singular narrative as universally true and categorically imperative is a problem that millennials must tackle head on,

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improving our grasp of reality.

Yet, a litany of events on college campuses across the country have served to undermine this precious principle entwined within the fabric of Western civilization and within the soul of America. Indeed, certain students at Yale University have signed a petition repealing the First Amendment of the American Constitution. Some students at Stanford University have demanded that their new university president be nonwhite, transgendered or female.

Students at several campuses have been responsible for silencing and preventing former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde, Charles Murray and Ayaan Hisi Ali from speaking. A blatant disregard towards the ability of students to engage in ideological exchange limits the degree of intellectual advancement an individual can undergo at a time where students are meant to be challenged to form a more cohesive and holistic perspective. The seemingly endless lists of demands that lack a serious avenue

of discussion between the perceived oppressors of administrative officials and beleaguered students always leads to a lack of progress that may have otherwise been achieved by navigating and working within the system through paths like student government and reasoned demands for serious discussion, instead of beginning from outside the edges of mutual understanding. Unreasonable demands embedded in a narrow vision excluding others and disparaging the ideals of a meritocracy weaken the direction taken up by the intelligentsia.

Silencing other voices from speaking instead of engaging in debate and an interchange of ideas stifles the process of enlightenment, and only protects students from personal development and cognitive advancement.

Ultimately, an extremist narrative permeating this small sample set of a slew of absurd actions taken by radicals at universities nationwide has served to slowly dismantle the central tenets of open societies. Through intransigent methods that divide and dissuade sympathizers towards their cause, radicals on campuses have repelled supporters to what are sometimes noble, worthy causes. More importantly, a concerted effort towards limiting freedom of expression has cast a spectre of necessitated fear over those who may otherwise disagree with the aims of these protestors, and yield various viewpoints differing than what is, to these radicals, the only way forward.

Tolerance cannot be claimed when intolerance for different perspectives is displayed. Understanding cannot be

valued when an immediate reaction towards alternative opinions are deemed ignorant. The truth cannot be reached unless we allow a process towards attaining truth to transpire.

Nevertheless, I take solace in the words of the fictional character Rorschach from the comic-book series, “Watchmen.” He declares, “Never compromise, not even in the face of armageddon.” Compromising values in freedom of thought in an effort to be free of thought is the wrong course of action and must be stopped at every corner possible. The future of Duke University depends on it.

John Guarco is a Trinity senior.

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No Western leader will ever trust anything he says ever again. ” — “Airman48” on May 27’s “Why we need a deal with Russia” guest column

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To the class of 2020

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ongratulations! You have now joined a community that will continuously frustrate you, challenge you, shape you and inspire you. Duke has so much to offer albeit the diligence you must invest, and it has given me so much to be grateful for. I am confident it will do the same for you.

As you prepare yourselves for a new environment

Sabriyya Pate IN FORMATION like none other, you will receive advice that may feel overwhelming. And so, it is now my duty to impart a better litany of freshman-year lessons upon you.

Before I begin, I must disclose: my experiences are not the norm and neither are anyone else’s. Nonetheless, I

hope my perspective can quell some anxiety and inform you of the diversity you will face.

1. Pace yourself O-week, new classes, new environments, superficial social encounters and the boundless opportunities at your disposal make it easily possible to burn out by the end of your first semester. While signing up for and later unsubscribing from tens of email list-servers is lauded as the norm for all “accomplished and well-rounded” Duke students, the reality of hyper-activity can be costly to other aspects of student life.

2. Prioritize My freshman year, I committed wholeheartedly to many organizations, including one that drew great parallels to what had defined my high school experience. However, as time progressed and I took a greater leadership position in the organization, I came to recognize that while I was passionately giving my greatest effort, the club was no longer rewarding. As I better understood what motivates

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me, I learned to better appreciate my time and the commitments I could fully involve myself in. In “dropping” this involvement and others in favor of those more attuned to my passions and career aspirations, I have found facets to impact change and could not be happier.

3. Wait it out “Wait for second semester” are perhaps the greatest four words of advice I could have received my first semester. I did not meet some of my best friends at Duke until second semester thanks to sheer luck and the time I needed to find my grounding. While I have drifted apart from many so-called “first-semester friends,” I do not regret any of the relationships I built that made Duke seem less daunting for those early weeks. That said, there are those who stumble upon and immediately click (and clique) with a group of friends that they continue with throughout their Duke journey. So I say, do what you feel is right, and do not worry if yours is not a quintessential college friend group in the short-run, long-run or even ever. Clear-cut friend groups do not really exist and the quicker you can validate this idea, the better.

4. Upperclassmen are your friends I have been so fortunate to have befriended some incredible upperclassman upon my arrival at Duke. To quote the multimillionaire businessman Robert Herjavec, “Start being present to embrace the learning opportunities all around you. Ask your colleagues...for their points of view. Seek advice from your direct leader or leader once removed. Start having conversations and soaking in the mentorship moments.” Not only have I received such great advice and mentorship from them, the food points alone make relationships with upperclassman worthwhile!

5. Dare to be alone There is an inescapable societal stigma against solitude.

Our generation fears emptiness and this fear can manifest itself in various ways. Personally, time alone has been time to reflect, de-stress, collect my thoughts and breathe without the strain that interpersonal relationships can often impose.

Within the chaos of your first year, dare to do just that.

6. Do not anticipate rush The havoc of second-semester SLG and Greek-life rush can create an allure around social exclusivity. Some will tell you that you will lose your friends to sisterhoods/ brotherhoods, and while that statement might hold some merit, you will make the effort to continue worthy relationships. Recognize now that a social group is a minute aspect of one’s identity. Furthermore, in thinking about this during your upcoming semester, you risk forgoing friendships that will transcend social boundaries.

7. Explore Duke and Durham My first week, I needed to go to the Global Health Institute to meet a professor. Unfamiliar with the bus system, I sporadically yanked the cord and proceeded to walk around Central Campus apartments for forty minutes in the blazing summer sun. By the time I arrived at Trent Hall, the professor had left for the day. However, thanks to that experience, I can now navigate Central Campus. Even closer to your future residences on East Campus are the restaurants and shops on Ninth Street waiting to be similarly navigated. Duke and Durham are both breathtaking and vibrant; do not deprive yourself of the chance to explore both the campus and city.

8. Take a house course Freshmen, take a house course! Not only will you receive a half-credit that contributes to the 34-credit graduation requirement (which allows you to more easily underload later on), you get this credit in a less formal environment conducive to the exchange of ideas. If you are unsure on which to take, I highly recommend Women and International Development; the course, a discussionbased half-credit, covers global political, economic and social plights and will be engaging regardless of your prior academic interests.

9. Ignore everything I just said So maybe that heading is a little misleading. But I implore you to be original in the path you take. No one will know what your Duke career will hold, not even yourself.

The preparations you make will never account for the whimsical occurrences that will most certainly define your next few years.

Lastly, while a “2020” class name might lead you to believe that your futures are as clear as can be, I am pleased to say your time will be a blurry conglomeration of inside jokes, overwhelming academics, late nights in Perkins, food point splurges and life-long memories. Be strong, be daring, be flexible but above all, be your-(changing)-selves.

Best of luck.

Sabriyya Pate is a Trinity sophomore. If you have a question or comment for her, she can be reached at sabriyya.pate@duke.edu.

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