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College Scorecard shows gender gap in alumni earnings Emma Baccellieri The Chronicle Duke’s male and female students fulfill the same graduation requirements, but they do not bring home the same paychecks after leaving school. Data released recently by the Department of Education shows that Duke women earn less than Duke men early in their careers, and the difference widens as the years pass. Ten years after enrollment, there is a pay gap of nearly $30,000 between male and female alumni. At that point in their careers, female Duke graduates have median yearly earnings of $93,100—compared to $123,000 for men. The gap is similar to that seen at peer institutions. “It’s not surprising in any way, but we absolutely can’t settle for it,” said Lisa Maatz, vice president of government relations for the American Association of University Women. “It represents discrimination, it represents a devaluing of women’s work and quite frankly, it weakens the whole economy.” Coming out of Duke, many women and men compete for the same jobs, but the financial outcome is often different, said Stephanie Helms Pickett, director of the Women’s Center. “There are countless examples and narratives of women making less than men when academic background, intern experiences, clubs, leadership experiences, research and faculty recommendations are equal and constant, and yet somehow the man still makes more money or has a more significant package overall with opportunity determined at the onset for advancement,” Helms Pick-

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ett wrote in an email Wednesday. The gender pay difference from Duke and its peer schools is comparable to the nation’s pay gap as a whole. The U.S. Census Bureau released data Wednesday showing that median women’s earnings were 78.6 percent of median men’s earnings in 2014—a slight increase from 2013, but not a statistically significant one. A difference in career choice between

men and women accounts for the gap to a certain extent, experts say. Also playing a role is the fact that women take more time away for work for caregiving and work fewer hours on average. When these factors are controlled for, the pay gap shrinks—but it still exists, Stanford University research has found. And though research has found that working mothers are at a particular disadvantage

compared to women without children, the pay gap exists before women become mothers. One year after graduating from college, women made 82 percent of what men did in 2009, according to a report from the American Association of University Women. “The reality is that discrimination is See WAGE GAP on Page 2

USAS presents petition to support non-tenure track faculty Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Four students representing Duke United Students Against Sweatshops presented a petition to President Richard Brodhead’s office voicing their support of non-tenure track faculty Wednesday afternoon. The petition—which garnered more than 400 signatures in two weeks—was a statement of student support for non-tenure track faculty who desire better job security and higher wages. A group of these

faculty members called Duke Teaching First announced their intent to unionize Monday. Junior Zoe Willingham, president of USAS, said that the goal of the petition is to ask Brodhead to remain neutral as faculty members organize for better working conditions rather than opposing the group. Brodhead was not present and did not receive the petition personally. “As students, we want professors to be treated with dignity in the workplace and feel financially secure as well,” Willingham said. Undergraduate students as well as community members who have connec-

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tions with the University signed the petition, which USAS circulated on Facebook. They presented the signed document to Brodhead’s office in the Allen Building at 3 p.m. Wednesday. According to chapter two of the Duke Faculty Handbook, “the conventional designations of full-time members of the regular rank tenure track faculty are assistant professor, associate professor, and professor.” Data released by the University to the Department of Education based on nine-month contracts shows that the average salary for Duke professors, associate professors and assistant professors is more

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than $84,000, and the average salary for unranked faculty, lecturers and instructors at the University is less than $57,000. Willingham argued that non-tenure track faculty currently lack a voice on campus and said that USAS desires to change that, noting that many faculty members right now are having a difficult time doing the best they can for students. The petition—written by Willingham and members of Duke Teaching First—states that it aims to “make improvements in transparency, stability and respect for all faculty

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N.C. colleges sign agreement to ease community college transfers a student is transferring. “Like our applicants who apply from fouryear colleges and universities, we seek community college applicants who have taken advantage of the opportunities available to them, who enjoy the process of engaging intellectually and who have made positive contributions to their community,” Enos wrote.

Heather Zhou The Chronicle Community college students in North Carolina will have an easier time transferring into many four-year independent colleges in the state. The revised Independent Comprehensive Articulation Agreement, signed Aug. 27, offers clarification for which courses will transfer to a four-year degree program, guarantees for individual course transfer and degree transfer and allows earlier engagement of students in the transfer process. This agreement has been signed by 22 of the 36 North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities. It comes after a similar Comprehensive Articulation Agreement was signed by University of North Carolina General Administration and the North Carolina Community College System in 2014 that offers transfer guarantees from all 58 North Carolina community colleges to all 16 UNC colleges. Duke did not sign the agreement and will not change its policies to streamline transfers from community colleges. “The major difference between the new and the former agreement is the provision for pathways for specific majors,” said A. Hope Williams, president of NCICU. “The new agreement provides that before students take courses in community college, they go to 2 four-year colleges to talk with them and find out exactly what [courses] they need to take for the major they are considering pursing. It will be like attending a four-year college at the first place.” Williams also noted that some institutions are in the midst of reviewing this revised version, and additional campuses may be signing the agreement soon. This agreement allows col-

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leges and universities to offer opportunities to more students, several institutions noted. “Many excellent students at community colleges understand the benefits of a liberal arts education,” Jane Fernandes, president of Guilford College, which was among the 22 institutions that adopted the new agreement, wrote in an email. “We are working to make Guilford more accessible to them. This articulation is part of the solution.” Duke has not adopted either this revised articulation agreement or the previous version due to the already competitive transfer application process. “This is because of the very small number of transfer applicants we’re able to admit each year as well as our interest in enrolling a diverse transfer class who not only come from schools in North Carolina but also across the

U.S. and the world,” Solomon Enos, senior assistant director of admissions who is responsible for transfer students, wrote in an email. “Duke already is in a fortunate position to attract many more competitive students than we can admit.” Enos noted that in 2015, Duke admitted less than five percent of those who applied to transfer. This year, 21 different colleges and universities are represented in the incoming transfer class of 25 students, with three students transferring from universities in North Carolina. With regards to Duke’s policies about community college transfer students, Enos noted that Duke welcomes applicants who apply from a variety of schools, including community colleges, and the selection criteria remains the same, regardless of the institution from which

still a part of the wage gap,” Maatz said, noting that so-called “pink collar” jobs— those dominated by women—make less than comparable jobs that are dominated by men. For instance, social services workers, who are more likely to be women, make considerably less than parole officers, who are more likely to be men, though the jobs are relatively similar. The pay gap is even larger for women of color, Helms Pickett noted. “The wage gap relates to dynamics of power and privilege, considerations women have been battling for quite a long time,” Helms Pickett wrote in an email Wednesday. She recommended that Duke women research the pay gap and learn to negotiate their salary and benefits. “You pay the same amount for that Duke education,” Maatz said. “You should be earning an equivalent amount.”

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Duke’s Dr. Damon Tweedy writes on race, medicine Lucy Zhang The Chronicle Duke psychiatrist Dr. Damon Tweedy has published a memoir reflecting on his experiences with racial discrimination in his medical career, prompting national conversations on the issues he raises. In his book titled “Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine,” Tweedy—a graduate of Duke School of Medicine and current assistant professor of psychiatry—describes his medical education as a black student and his personal observations of some of the discriminatory “facts” that medical institutions uphold. memoir Dr. Damon Tweedy Tweedy’s reads as both an insight into struggles of racism faced by African-Americans pursuing careers in medicine and a commentary on the complicated correlation between race and health risks. “For me, race was an important part of my experience in medical school and residency training, just as it was for many of the patients that I saw,” said Tweedy, explaining the inspiration behind his book. “But as I read dozens upon dozens of books by physicians, so few talked about race at all, and when they did, it was only mentioned in passing.” Black Man in a White Coat begins with an anecdote when then first-year Duke medical student Tweedy was shadowing another doctor while they observed a

Chronicle File Photo Dr. Damon Tweedy, associate professor of psychiatry, recently released a book about his experiences facing racial discrimination throughout his medical career.

black patient who had suffered from a stroke. The doctor claimed that the patient’s chance of recovery was slim and later highlighted a specific risk factor to be race—more specifically, being black. According to statistical correlations relating the incidence of strokes to race, “being black can be bad for your health,” Tweedy writes in his book. In his memoir, he also describes the foundations of his interest in science and medicine. The son of working-class parents in Baltimore, Tweedy tested into a magnet program in high school, where many of his friends were interested in becoming doctors. Having friends who wanted to be doctors drew him to

the field, Tweedy explained. “I was also drawn to the idea that science and medicine were objective, unlike so much of society where things like race and social class are important,” Tweedy said. “However, when I got to medical school I learned that things were more subjective than I had realized.” Far from learning a straightforward science, Tweedy encountered social challenges that he did not expect. During Tweedy’s first year as a doctor, a patient admitted to Tweedy’s team that he didn’t want a “n***** doctor” taking care of him. “It was hurtful, of course, and I had

my own negative feelings about him, but I also learned a lot from the experience,” Tweedy said. “He stayed on our medical team, and improbably, against all odds, we wound up having a good doctor-patient relationship, even a poignant one with his family, as he faced death.” Despite the outcome of that anecdote, the patient still represents a group of people who refuse to acknowledge black doctors. Tweedy’s account of his experience, however, does not only blame Duke’s School of Medicine, but also calls out broader problems of prejudice found throughout the system of American medical care. Michelle Tang, a second-year medical student who has taken a class taught by Tweedy, said that the Duke School of Medicine itself seems to be friendly towards students regardless of their racial or ethnic differences. “The medical school is pretty small,” Tang explained. “Each class is only 100 or so people so it creates a very tight knit community and I feel like everybody is friends with each other.” Racial tensions may not manifest themselves among the medical student body, but Tang noted that students may have to deal with uncomfortable situations involving patients and colleagues during their careers. “Patient populations are very diverse and you’re not going to get along with everybody but you have to be flexible. You’re ultimately there to treat the patient,” Tang said, recounting words of advice imparted by Tweedy during one of his classes.

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Heading into Saturday’s game against Northwestern, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe and his players had one word to describe the contest—a challenge. After blowing past a sluggish Tulane squad and FCS crosstown foe N.C. No. 23 Northwestern Central, the Blue Devils are ready to vs. face some stiffer Duke competition this week. Their wish SATURDAY, 12:30 p.m. will be granted Wallace Wade Stadium when Duke faces No. 23 Northwestern Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Wallace Wade Stadium. Cutcliffe said that this year’s Wildcats, who notched a 16-6 win against then-No. 21 Stanford in week one, could be the best Northwestern team he has ever seen. “We have to play really well from a technique standpoint,” he said. “From a discipline standpoint, certainly we have to find a way to make some plays on both sides of the ball against a very good, top-25 football team. So [it’s] a huge challenge, and that’s what the rest of the season will be.” Duke (2-0) and Northwestern (2-0) are known for their stellar academics, so it comes as no surprise that both are very disciplined and fundamentally sound on the gridiron. But in the two teams’ last meeting in 2008, a holding penalty wiped out a go-ahead Blue Devil touchdown with less than two minutes remaining, allowing the Wildcats to squeak

Khloe Kim | The Chronicle After holding both of its first two opponents below 60 yards rushing, the Blue Devil run defense will get a tough test in trying to slow down Northwestern running back Justin Jackson.

by with a 24-20 victory. Since that game, both programs have been trending in the right direction, giving each academic powerhouse a solid team on the gridiron in recent years. Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald has led his team to five bowl appearances since the start of the 2008 season, while Cutcliffe has taken the Blue Devils to three straight bowl games, dating back to 2012. The recent success will be on display Saturday, as the contest—named a “Nerd Bowl” by some—will have serious implications.

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A key part of the Blue Devils’ early success has been on the defensive side of the football, especially their ability to shut down opposing teams’ rushing attacks. Duke held N.C. Central to 54 yards on the ground last week and limited Tulane to just 25 rushing yards a week earlier. Athletic and sound play from the front six of defensive coordinator Jim Knowles’ 4-2-5 defense has been a key factor in stopping the run up front, where true freshman Brandon Boyce and senior Carlos Wray have combined for two sacks and 2.5 tackles for loss so far this season. A major focal point for the Blue Devils will

be stopping running back Justin Jackson on the ground and forcing redshirt freshman Clayton Thorson—who has just two career starts under his belt—to beat the Duke defense and its experienced secondary through the air. Jackson rushed for 1,187 yards and 10 touchdowns last season as a true freshman and is already off to a strong start with 212 yards this year, averaging 4.2 yards per carry. Linebacker Dwayne Norman said that the Blue Devil front six is built to contain a speedy back like Jackson. “He’s really good for his size,” Norman said. “He has a really fast first step and we have a defense that is fast enough to run with him and the rest of the offense.” On the other side of the football, a Northwestern defense that returns eight starters will provide stiff competition for a Duke offense that is currently ninth in the FBS averaging 592.5 total yards per game. Duke quarterback Thomas Sirk has had a near-flawless start to the season, showcasing his dual-threat ability in the first two games of the season by averaging 302.0 passing yards and 77.0 rushing yards. Sirk will be up against a secondary that has only allowed 223 total yards this season and is anchored by senior defensive back Nick Vanhoose and junior Matthew Harris. Harris already has two interceptions on the season and took one back 71 yards for a touchdown last weekend against Eastern Illinois. It will be pivotal for Sirk to maintain the crisp decisionmaking and precise accuracy he has shown thus far against the Wildcats. See FOOTBALL on Page 9

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Duke hosts NCAA champs Duke looks to snap streak Cassie Calvert The Chronicle It is crunch time for Duke. After a disappointing 1-0 loss at Louisiana State Sunday, the No. 22 Blue Devils return Appalachian home to Koskinen State Stadium to square vs. off against the team’s No. 22 last nonconference Duke foe of the regular season and first ACC THURSDAY, 7 p.m. Koskinen Stadium opponent. Duke will host Appalachian State Thursday at 7 No. 2 Florida State p.m. before turning its attention to No. vs. 2 Florida State—the No. 22 defending national Duke champions—for a 1 SUNDAY, 1 p.m. p.m. game Sunday. Koskinen Stadium

The defeat against the Tigers was the Blue Devils’ first road loss of the season, but they are trying to put that squarely in the rearview mirror heading into the toughest part of their season. “One thing our captains said was [that] we’re not really looking at it as bouncing back. It’s just another game, another team that we’re going to attack as hard as we have the other ones,” sophomore goalkeeper E.J. Proctor said. “That’s going to be our mentality going into it.” Duke (5-2-1) will look to work out the kinks during the week’s practices and attempt to finish nonconference play with a strong showing to make the best case possible for an NCAA tournament selection at the end of the season. Although frustrated with the outcome of last Sunday’s game, head coach Robbie Church said his team played See W. SOCCER on Page 9

Drew Johnson The Chronicle Michigan is not known for its high temperatures, but right now things in the Great Lakes State are very hot. The Wolverines have blazed a trail across No. 20 the Midwest, going Michigan undefeated through vs. their first nine matches. Duke’s goal this Duke weekend is to make sure that trail stops in FRIDAY, 6:30 p.m. Cameron Indoor Stadium Durham. The Blue Devils will look to take Michigan down a pair of Big State Ten opponents this vs. weekend at Cameron Indoor Stadium as they Duke play No. 20 Michigan SATURDAY, 6:30 p.m. Friday at 6:30 p.m. and Cameron Indoor Stadium

Michigan State Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Duke will try to continue its strong play after a weekend of mixed results, including a hard-fought loss to then-No. 3 Stanford followed by a three-set sweep against UNC Wilmington. Although the loss against the Cardinal was intense and emotional, Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said she was impressed with the team’s ability to bounce back against the Seahawks. “Oftentimes when you have such an emotional match, it’s hard to get ready for the next one right away as quickly as the turnaround was,” Nagel said. “I think our team did a great job of that…we’ve had matches like [Stanford] in the past and not bounced back as well as we would have liked to, so I think our team has learned some lessons.” These lessons are ones that the Blue Devils (5-3) will need to remember as they contend against two tough opponents this weekend. In Michigan, Duke faces an undefeated team See VOLLEYBALL on Page 12

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There’s a remarkable diversity of relationships you can find and make in this place. There are your superpower soul sisters who know you so well that you speak in your own private tongue. Your freshman friendlies who you’d take to lunch for an hour but not much more, your intellectual crushes whose knowledge you want to swim inside. Your Latin Dance (take the class!) partner of the day who’s in close physical—but not emotional—contact. Your “We almost dated.” Your “I slept on their couch after roller skating one time.” The range of fellow people have at minimum one thing in common with you: they are also here. Sometimes that’s about it, but you talk to them and sometimes share with them precious pieces of your identity. I want to do an in-depth study to discover at what point exactly and past what threshold do we each decide a person is deserving of our details. Which ones get your true opinions on a Tuesday and which ones get, “It’s good?” A lengthy, unusual conversation might spring up in a Kilgo hallway with someone sort of new, and in a game of constant conversation running semesters long, you can keep your cards close and maintain that Tuesday is fine, thanks, and not mention the itches on your brain. “Good” is default, and “bad” demands further explanation. This is not really my approach. I have signs and signals all over my life and written into my skin that explain me bit by bit, and I’m almost always open to elaborate. By Jove, the stickers on my laptop are a dead giveaway of my affiliations and past fixations. It rarely takes more than an offhand inquiry for me to ramble personal information that the acquaintance had not yet “earned.”

It feels more taxing to lie about or reduce the significance of a ring, a t-shirt, my summer plans than to exhale it all out. Because of this I fall into the category of being an “oversharer.” It also means I’m a trail of breadcrumbs everywhere. My stories and pieces are scattered with all kinds of people, some of whom are close and special and “deserving” and some of whom are not. This is my inclination and it also makes me feel more in touch with how I think and feel if I actually verbalize it as much as I do. But I fear that this practice of jumping to what’s personal

editor’s note also chips me away. Some stories are not that special anymore because too many people know them, and they carry less weight when I want to open up to someone who means more to me. Secrets are a nearly foreign concept. And whatever identity recognition comes from living openly is complemented by vulnerability. Deciding how much of yourself to reveal is not a dilemma of speech alone. Art, we are told, benefits from reaching deep into our pools of uncomfortable truths, and from struggle and pain and everything that is real real real! The great mystery of “you” is artistic value. What the rest of the world hasn’t seen is where your most valuable work will emerge. This is where I am afraid of handing out candid moments like

section party fliers. If I’ve already talked it all out, what’s left for the notebook to hear? And even if there is stuff left, you still have to convince yourself to unseal what is left. At what point exactly and past what threshold does the piece of paper deserve your honest words? My reassurance is in knowing that artistry works on its subjects like a pair of 3D movie glasses. It makes some things appear too harsh and overwhelming and a little bit scary. It makes once flat things become very, very real and get all up in your face. You can still see the world okay without it, but it’s fuzzy and often dull. Art is a way to find another side of a part of you that didn’t appear in retelling stories—sometimes it can sound like this, or like this, or even be purple and red and also round. I feel safer leaving those breadcrumbs behind me knowing that the process of creating will always be able to replenish the loaf. Art is hardly ever a direct imprint of a person’s identity, unless you’re making collages of genome sequences. The point of it, I think, is to represent the subject in a way that can’t be done in any other form. “The Sun Also Rises” can bring about a combination of generational nostalgia, wanderlust and melancholy that’s also present in a Lorde song, but its recipe is different and the flavor stands alone. There can’t be a correct answer to when and why you open up to people or in artwork, and no one ever owes somebody else full disclosure. But I think that there’s no real limit to what you can divulge about yourself, and you don’t have to save all of the feelings for the angry art. Just figure out what scribbles are in you that you didn’t even know you had. —Georgia Parke

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An account from Hopscotch, Raleigh’s music fest Josh Polikov The Chronicle This past weekend was the sixth year of Hopscotch, a three-day music festival in Raleigh with 120 bands you’ve never heard of, six bands you think you’ve kind of heard of, and two totally sick bands you’re absolutely in love with. The festival is usual because it doesn’t follow the all-day format—the headliners come on first, sometime in the early evening, then everyone splits off to different club venues within a few blocks of each other. Hopscotch hosts a diverse set of acts from Coffeehouse mainstays Silent Lunch and Natural Causes to Baltimore rapper Goldlink and garage scum King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Yes, that’s their real name and no, it’s not stupid, they shred. I stuck out a spot at City Plaza around 6:45, in anticipation of TV on the Radio, who were supposed to come on at 8:45. We got to see the very end of Carlitta Durand. By that I mean we caught the very end, when she said “I’m Carlitta Durand from Durham, thank you everybody!” When Tycho was getting ready to start his set, no one was really paying attention at that point because Tycho is just some slouchy guy, and everyone was thinking they didn’t come

to this thing to see a nerd twist dials on his synthesizer. Besides, this year was sponsored by Squarespace and there were probably some cool promotional booths somewhere. But after emitting a few doops from his electric box, Tycho invited his whole band to come on stage. To everyone’s disappointment, Tycho was extremely likable throughout his entire set. There were some technical difficulties, and he handled them like a pro. His light show was tasteful and attractive. I think there might’ve been some music, too. After some half-hearted applause, Tycho and his band left the stage and the Plaza began filling up in anticipation of TV on the Radio. Known for their postmodern masterpieces “Return to Cookie Mountain” and “Dear Science,” and their most recent album Seeds,

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TVOTR was the band everyone was psyched to see. Unlike Tycho (why did he have to be so damn likeable?!), TV on the Radio did not disappoint. They played their best song “Golden Age” early, and I could’ve left the festival after hearing that and been satisfied. They also played “Wolf Like Me,” a real scorcher and fan favorite, plus a whole bunch of their newer stuff, if you’re into that. Satiated aurally but kind of hungry, my friends and I went off in search of food. Downtown Raleigh is pretty cool at night and there were tons of places to eat. We decided on the Mecca Restaurant, described by Google as an “old-timey, family-owned mainstay serving Southern comfort food & drinks since the 1930s.” I would describe them as having heady burgers. The place was packed with fellow Hopscotchers, all murmuring about where the cool place was to go next. We knew exactly where we were going, though—CAM, to see Moon Duo. CAM, as we were to later discover, is the Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh. Moon Duo, as we already kind of knew, is an intoxicating psych band on Sacred Bones Records. When we got there, the CAM had already reached capacity and there was a line to get in. Especially egregious was the fact that the hordes of VIP wristband holders (there were more of them than us) were allowed to bypass the line and go right in once

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someone else had walked out. The bouncer was appropriately ashamed of his taking part in this mockery of underground music culture. After several impassioned mutterings of “didn’t know I paid all this money to stand in line outside a club,” the poor kid couldn’t take it anymore and let us in. Moon Duo was great. Their psych jams were repetitive and mind-altering, hallucinogenic in the acoustical sense. Not realizing that TomorrowWorld is next weekend, a couple of dudes in tank tops had brought out glow sticks, and so after a long night we decided to head home. And so, the moral of the story is this: don’t bring glow sticks to Hopscotch, and if you’re going to ask for media passes, see if you can swing some VIPs.

The rise and fall of anime, at Duke and beyond Lucy Zhang The Chronicle Nearly every type of student activity from basketball to tea with strangers has established on Duke’s campus. That is, everything except the Duke Anime Club, an entity that has long disappeared from the student body’s memories. All that exists in testimony to the anime club’s existence is an abandoned website address that links to a page “Err Connection Timed Out.” Despite the disappearance of the Duke Anime Club, anime fans themselves have a strong representation among the student body. The reason for this contradiction has much to do with the evolution of anime and the industry as a whole. Anime, which is rooted in post World War II Japan, was born out of necessity due to the limited budget in a war-struck, recovering nation. “A lot of the repetition, choppiness, stylized faces and movements are things that were budget driven, but then they became thought of as a style,” said Eileen Chow,

visiting associate professor of Asian and thing grown from the demographic trending... Middle Eastern Studies. “That’s how we see I would wager to say most anime viewers start anime.” at a young age. At this age it’s unlikely for these Anime clubs were originally founded viewers to have money all the time to pay for a with the main purpose to allow members to service to support the industry,” said freshman purchase and trade discs with one another, a Naijiao Zhang. cause that has become largely obsolete with For others, illegal streaming is the only the advent of online means of getting streaming. Despite the around lack of significant number availability. In China of anime watchers in particular, popular around the world, very shows such as Death few actually purchase Note, Attack on Titan physical discs or pay and Sword Art Online for memberships with have been blacklisted legal streaming sites due to claims such as Crunchyroll, that they include on which shows’ scenes of violence, availability are limited p o r n o g r a p h y, in certain countries. terrorism and crimes Many watchers today against public rely on pirated and morality. illegally streamed “A couple years anime. ago, when I started “To be honest, I watching anime, think it’s a habitual The Special to The Chronicle there were only illegal

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sources available to me in China, as far as I knew,” said freshman Xiaoyang Liu, who had not heard of Crunchyroll until arriving at Duke. Senior Ouwen Huang also noted that many illegal sites also have a larger selection. Without the reliance on physical copies of anime, physical gatherings have died down and most watchers can simply go about watching on their laptops or phones. The element of community watching, which also builds a sense of belonging among the quirky but diverse hardcore fans, is lost. The demise of the Duke Anime Club reflects an unsustainability stemming from lack of communal cohesiveness. Once in a while there are unofficial micro gatherings of anime watchers, perhaps due to the allure of a larger resolution TV. But it is usually not done out of necessity. Other advancements to the production of anime have been made. Animation budgets have expanded tremendously, introducing computer generated imagery and more See ANIME on Page 8

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Filmmaker Chen returns to career roots at Duke Jessica Williams The Chronicle In thinking about careers, students often contrast passion and profit. Even if a love of art or music could be more rewarding but are often told to choose a more practical occupation. Filmmaker Lawrence Chen ‘09 has exemplified how this does not have to be true for student artists. Chen came to East Campus last Thursday to showcase some of his work for Screen/Society’s Arts of the Moving Image Showcase, as part of the Alumni Filmmaker Homecoming Series. For two hours he showed a mix of his work, including short films, music videos and commercials, ending with a Q&A session with the audience. “I started my film career here [at Duke],” Chen said. “It’s kinda cool showing what I’ve done so far to other students and sharing with professors who inspired me to do this.” Having graduated just six years ago, Chen has had a quick turnaround in coming back to share films on campus. Currently a director at BBDO Worldwide, a New York advertising agency, he was awarded three Pencils at the 2015 One Show, eight Lions at the 2015 Cannes Lions, New Director at Shoots 2012 New Director Showcase and mentions at Tribeca, Rome, London and Cannes film festivals. Aside from the projects he does for work, Chen spends his free time producing his own personal films—his favorites in the genre of science fiction. Although he entered Duke hoping to double major in biomedical engineering and economics, Chen found ways to explore his passion for film through organizations he joined on campus. “[Duke University Improv] was one of the best experiences I had on campus,” Chen said. “It gave me a sense of knowing how to tell a story, knowing how to perform, knowing how to direct actors, knowing how to direct

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improvisers.” Chen said making sketch comedy shorts with DUI taught him about working with people to create brief entertainment, helping him later on with ideas for his short films. He also made films throughout his Duke experience for dance group Defining Movement and the Asian Students Association. It wasn’t until his senior year, though, he became determined to be a director. “I took a capstone course with Josh [Gibson]. I made my first short film in that class, and decided I wanted to be a director,” Chen said. The capstone course, a required culminating course for the Arts of the Moving Image Certificate—then called Film/Video/Digital—gives seniors working on the certificate a chance to put what they have learned into action through projects. “Students come together as a tightknit group of independent studies, each working to a final project of sorts that can be anything from making a production to writing a screenplay,” Gibson said. In doing work for the course, Chen created three films, including his first short film “Journey to the West,” which he had started making in China the winter before and which was screened at Thursday’s event. Subtle yet dramatic, the film spoke for Chen’s abilities in storytelling as well as filming. In the subsequent short films and music videos Chen has created, he takes a creative and personal yet not always easy approach towards his work. In filming “Journey to the West,” he created his own device to attach to his camera to make shooting look more film-like, and in his music video for Delta Rae’s song “Bottom of the River,” he took the difficult approach of filming everything in a single shot. “He’s able to tell a story in a concise visual way,” Gibson said, a lecturing fellow in AMI. “One of the things he’s greatest at is withholding.”

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Anime from page 7 advanced 2D animation techniques. To fans who have their childhoods rooted in 1990s shows such as Dragon Ball Z or Cowboy Bebop, both shows that possess an older, stylistic tone and stay faithful to hand drawn 2D frames, many computer generated effects appear jarring against the tradition of handdrawn frames. In particular, poor quality CGI characters or animals can appear as though they are photoshopped onto a background. “[CGI] diminishes my watching experience because I end up focusing more on how the animation could be better as opposed to something like character development or plot progression,” said freshman Ada Zhang. Common themes and art styles have also morphed. For example, the large eyes that often take up half the size of a character’s face were not always iconic images. From the 1980s to the 2000s, character eyes have grown from fairly humanly proportional sizes to the enlarged size they are today. “The style is morphing. And CGI is part of that style. But the question is, where is the

boundary of acceptability for fans?” Chow said. Anime warrants discussion, as it accesses a certain sincerity in emotions that other mediums do not. The register of emotions shift very quickly, from comedy to tragedy or happygo-lucky to death, forcing viewers to grapple with the nature of scenes that they witness. In regards to action or battle scenes, anime is paradoxically more gruesome yet less gruesome than live action films. Audiences also have the knowledge that actors are still alive after their character’s death, rendering the suffering or deaths of animated, disconnected-to-reality characters much more real and loophole-less. These expressed emotions become a community event. Anime is geared toward entertaining its audiences and its goal is to solicit strong reactions that tend to be most beautifully apparent in groups. The anime fan base is not static, as fans’ changes in taste drive the industry and consumption. The peculiar result is a currently extinct Duke Anime Club and a continued culture of students and staff who appreciate the many nuances of anime.

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“They’re very solid in what they do and have some very talented players on the defensive side of the football,” Sirk said. “It’s going to be a challenge for our offense. We are looking forward to the competition this week. We just have to come out and do what we do and execute [at] a high level.” The Blue Devil rushing attack will look to alleviate the pressure on Sirk and use the onetwo punch of running backs Shaquille Powell and Shaun Wilson to balance the Duke offense. Wilson has been impressive so far in 2015, rushing for 134 yards and a touchdown this season and adding 120 receiving yards. The big numbers have shifted the attention to Wilson, but Powell remains the starter. The Blue Devils will also need increased production at wide receiver and will look to junior Johnell Barnes to continue to make big plays through the air. The Lehigh Acres, Fla., native leads Duke with 13 catches for 165 yards and a touchdown. Freshman T.J. Rahming and senior Max McCaffrey have also made significant contributions to a receiving corps that lost starters Jamison Crowder and Issac Blakeney from last year’s team. The week-by-week growth of the receivers is beginning to lead to consistency, a goal of Cutcliffe’s program and a quality that players are taking seriously heading into this weekend’s showdown with a talented top-25 opponent. “We’ve seen consistency from our receivers,” Sirk said. “Those guys are learning a lot each game and in practice each day. We have to continue to bring those guys along and continue to grow.”

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he Duke Student Government Research Unit was established by DSG last September with ambitions to help Senate representatives tackle persistent, large-scale campus problems. The vision for the unit was to infuse DSGled initiatives with more data by creating a home within DSG for quantitatively inclined students to investigate methodically pressing campus issues. We applauded the creation of DSGRU last fall and acknowledge the progress it has made in building relationships on campus to overcome the logistical hurdles of its first year. Building a studentled research group in a university setting comes with tremendous challenges, and we believe DSGRU’s decision to dedicate its resources to a smaller set of research projects is wise. Connecting with research already being conducted on campus is important to avoid being overburdened by the size of projects, and research by undergraduates without administrative and faculty department partnerships could easily be overwhelming given demands already on students. So as the research unit embarks on its second year on campus, we add three areas to DSGRU’s consideration of research topics. First, how do students at Duke engage in student government, local, state and federal elections?

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Close to home, why is turnout for DSG elections so low? Are there ways that DSG can change election ballots or adjust election procedures to increase student turnout? Students would also find value in understanding the political makeup of campus in terms of both broad political leanings and distributions of students across issues. Off campus, how students participate in voting and political events can inform us in how many and what kinds of

Editorial students are engaging in politics during college. Second, how do social communities at Duke manifest themselves? What makes some independent houses tighter communities than others? Community is often built in social and residential spaces, but students also tend to build community in curricular and extracurricular spaces, like academic societies and dance teams. How can those interactions shape housing policy? Housing is central to the student experience, and metrics on what students can gain or lose via housing models are vital in policymaking. Thirdly, we invite DSGRU to consider tackling questions around academic life. What combinations

of majors, minors and certificates tend to arise in a class’s four years? Are there trends in switches in majors at certain points in student careers? What majors are not reaching students until later in their careers? With continuing curriculum revision discussions, it is important to have data on how students are actually filling Trinity requirements, which ones are filled with interest versus apathy and other basic academic questions. While the original vision of DSGRU was to investigate issues that would inform specific student government initiatives, we urge DSG to also consider it as a tool to help students understand campus and themselves as they navigate the Duke experience. A well-known campus research study on gender norms conducted by Duke Inquiries in Social Relations continues to inform campus thought even though the investigation was not tailored to a specific action on the part of DSG or the University administration. DSGRU continues to hold great potential to produce the same kinds of conclusions for the undergraduate experience. We look forward to seeing the new set of studies that DSG will commission to the research unit this fall and encourage input from all corners of campus with careful consideration to what will benefit DSG, administration and students most.

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“Okay but why does every single conservative at Duke assume that liberals are just group-thinking idiots who just jumped on the social justice bandwagon cuz all their friends are doing it?” — “problematic_fav” commenting on the Sept. 16 column “The young liberal’s folly”

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From SNL sketches, to The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, comedic and satirical media now have a substantial impact on how Americans receive and digest news and current events. What does this mean for our democracy? On one hand, this development has seemed to galvanize the political engagement of young people—our notoriously politically apathetic demographic. Humor also helps to cut through political hypocrisy, enabling us to effectively identify the dishonesty and incompetence of politicians and other public figures. On the other hand, these approaches to politics might cultivate a reflexive cynicism among those whose primary exposure to the political process shows it to be the exclusive arena of crooks and liars. Comedy can have the side effect of making its subject matter unserious. More importantly, questions arise about what ethical constraints, if any, ought to apply to our country’s

fake newsmen. Are they only entertainers, or does the trust the public has for them bring with it certain responsibilities? On Monday, Sept. 21 at 4:30 p.m., Duke will host Scott Dikkers, the Founding Editor of The Onion, the wildly successful fake news site. His talk is entitled “The Funny Story behind the Funny Stories” and will take place in Page Auditorium. Scott has been thinking deeply and carefully about the way to make people laugh and laugh intelligently. His edited volumes of The Onion, many books and recent podcast bring new light to the inner workings of political satire. Upon the recent retirement of Jon Stewart and with Trump’s presidential campaign fueling Onionesque headlines, it’s worth reconsidering the place of humor in our politics. Michael Hawley Ph.D. student, Political Science

Letter to the Editor I am responding to your Sept. 16 editorial entitled “Legacy admissions: something given for little returned.” In your article, you state, among other ridiculous untruths, that “those that believe legacy students bring a coherent or uniquely beneficial background to Duke are deluding themselves.” In other words, you believe that legacy students do not belong at Duke. This statement is patently false. First of all, you offer no concrete facts to back your argument. You mention nothing about how legacy students’ grades, test scores, or extracurriculars match up with those of non-legacy students. In fact, there is nothing available to prove that legacy students’ applications are inferior to those of non-legacy students. Moreover, according to the Admissions Office website, the only benefit offered to legacy students is that they are “granted a third read to make certain nothing important was missed.” Also, responding to the frequently-asked question “Is having the alum-affiliation enough to get my child admitted,” the Admissions Office

replies, “No. Your student must still compete with the overall applicant pool.” In summary, the only benefit of being a legacy when applying is one extra review of the application. You also ask legacy students to “explain how the effect their relation had and how it forms their vision of Duke.” My great-grandfather graduated from Duke in the 1930s, and both my parents were Trinity ‘87. Yes, they taught me to love Duke, but they are not the reason I chose Duke. I came here because Duke pre-med students get into medical school at over twice the national average. I came here to play in the marching band and to contribute to school spirit. I came to make a difference, and I believe I have made a difference along with my fellow legacy students. Your assertion that we do not belong here is purely arrogant and not based on fact. We will make the most of our opportunity. We do belong. Davis Lovvorn Trinity 2018

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when imagination bears fruit into reality, when your mind can create something out of nothing. Emotions are new, exciting, curious—sometimes scary, but often wonderful. What stands out to me most from those days, however, are the stories that circulated among the kids in our neighborhood. Every building had its own narrative—every street corner was the place where someone once did something or heard about someone doing something. As these accounts were told and retold on a regular basis, they became more than just stories. They gave our friend group a collective memory that belonged uniquely to us— it’s what made our experiences special and fun to remember. But soon enough, memory turned into myth. Stories became lore, transporting us to shared realms of make-believe. Ordinary places took on a life of their own, endowed with a mythology passed down from ten-year-olds to seven-yearolds. Among those of us who went to the same church on the weekends, there was one story in particular that brought us all together: that of the forest. Situated along the fringes of our church property was a wooded area that seemed to stretch endlessly into the distance. To our parents, it was just a mess of shoddy-looking trees. But to us, the forest represented the boundaries of what we knew and our fascination with what lay beyond. No one knew what waited for us on the other side, and only the bravest kids would willingly venture inside to find out. Meanwhile, there were dozens of rumors about what you’d find if you crossed the woods. The older kids claimed that if you walked far enough, you’d come to a baseball field on the other side. “It’s true,” they insisted. “We even played catch when we got there.” Personally, I never saw it. In fact, I remember doubting on multiple occasions whether this field actually existed. It seemed too idyllic to be true. Nevertheless, the legend persisted, and every adventure into the forest became a makeshift quest to find the elusive park—though no one ever seemed to recall how to get there. Looking back, I don’t think it mattered whether the field was really there or not. What mattered to us was the journey we took to find out. In our minds, those woods were a large lurking presence, infused with a puzzling ethos of familiarity and fear. It was mystery, and it was wonder. It projected and embodied all of our curious anxieties. Once inside, grown-ups weren’t there to tell you where to go—even as kids, we understood that to cross the forest was to grow up and take care of oneself. There was something beautifully ironic, I think, in how we gained a certain sense of maturation through these journeys of

fairy tales enter the woods, they gradually lose control over their surroundings, and it’s up to them to rearrange their fragile identities on their own terms. Forms are altered, emotions are turned inside out—by the time you reemerge from the forest, one thing is certain: you aren’t the same person who entered. In a similar way, our forest was an enchanted laboratory. We brought it to life with experiments of imagination. Adventures to the mythic baseball field on the other side unlocked our potential to create novel worlds from the mundane. Trees became towering fortresses, streams were dimensional portals and small animals served as our magical guides. We lost our sense of direction almost every time, but whenever we felt afraid, it was our eagerness to explore the unknown that led us to move on rather than turn back. Until recently, I didn’t understand that curiosity and fear could be intimately connected. After I became aware of the injustices that plague our grown-up society, I thought I could never return to the innocence through which I once saw the world. I used to be curious about what lay around me, but now I am afraid of it. Yet, as I think back to how I felt while wandering through the woods as a kid, I’m learning that innocence doesn’t have to be lost—perhaps only redefined. When we’re young, joy and curiosity are enough to bring us fulfillment. But when we wake up and find ourselves suddenly lost in the forest—in fragile periods of life when we seem to lose control of our surroundings—we are given the choice of whether to continue exploring what once fascinated us or to let our new awareness paralyze us in fear. To me, the decision to choose curiosity, despite knowing what scary things could be out there, allows us not only to retain the innocence we thought we had lost, but also to reinforce it with a deeper, knowledgeable maturity. As it turns out, I moved to a different neighborhood before I could ever discover the truth about the forest. But a few years later, my friends revealed that they had crossed the woods and eventually found the baseball field on the other side. The mystery was solved. And they hadn’t been back since. Personally, I’m glad I never reached the end myself. In my mind, those woods are exactly how I remember them: enchanting, intimidating, intriguing and limitless. As long as there’s more to explore—more to be curious about, in spite of fear—I won’t have a reason to leave the forest anytime soon. As long as I stay, maybe that childlike innocence and spirit of curiosity will stay with me too. Chris Lee is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Thursdays.

minds in history, was built for learning. It was possible to sit where C.S. Lewis once sat and get a pint of beer. Of course, there were papers to be written and criticisms to be read, but mostly it was a time of late sunsets and long walks in grassy meadows and Pimms filled to the brim with cut strawberries. I met many people. The locals kept telling us that the warm summer nights were unusual and wouldn’t last, but they did —all summer long. When I returned to Duke, I tried desperately to hold the entire experience and all I had learned close to me. I put up photos on my wall, read a lot of Emily Dickinson and tried to see the best in people. If I had a bad day, I would put on some Hot Chip and dwell on better times. But the familiar faces and places kept slipping away into that obscurity where forgotten memories go. Oxford became something more than a place; it became something to strive for. I was determined to go back. A year later, I did. I was working in London, in an internship I had found after months of cold-calls and emails. I took the X90 north-west with my best friend and watched the green grass roll past. My heart was pounding. Then we were on High St and all of it was right there. A strange pain settled in my chest. Still there were the tourists in their chattering masses and the beige, towering walls. Still there was the busker who sang Fleetwood Mac. Still there was the coffee shop that I had loved with all my caffeinated heart. But the faces behind the counter were foreign to me. Where there once had been construction was now a shiny set of stairs. I gathered the courage to ask about the barista whom I had befriended a year ago. The new girl shook her head and told me he had moved to Germany. Here’s the thing about time: it stops for no one. The city had stayed much the same, but each little change that I had not lived through was a tiny adjustment that pushed it further away from me. I had thought that I could recreate the memory of a place. But being there was like being in someone else’s dream. It was not my Oxford anymore.

The old faces, the old friends, they had taken their own parts of Oxford and they had moved on. I still loved the city with its endless pubs and romantic atmosphere, but now it was only just a place to me, albeit a place with too many good memories. Time had been passing all along, and I had not been living it in real time. I had been living in the promise of something else: a time and place that simply no longer existed. Our experience of time can be a

powerful coping mechanism. As I begin my senior year, I am reminded all the more of how frightening it is to know what is ahead. It is tempting for me to live in the glow of good times in order to get over this. But of course, it is possible to live in the past so deeply that it consumes you. Places are airbrushed, people are idolized, and we think about could-haves and should-have-beens. In itself, that is not bad, but to live in the past is to inescapably exist with fragments of regret. Should we live in the promise of the future then? This is something we at Duke are particularly good at. We often plan our futures out to each scheduled hour, leaving very little doubt about what comes next. Foresight is an amazing knack. If there are goals to achieve and dreams to attain, living this way is the path to success. However, it inevitably robs us of a little of the novelty of living in the immediate present. It rests on the idea that, one day, we can stop the ceaseless striving because we will have fulfilled our ambitions. It suggests that the events of our lives are not only predictable but controllable. I don’t know if that is true. The past doesn’t have to color every decision we make. The future does not necessarily have to be known for happiness to be found. Why had I been so happy at Oxford? I suppose the irony of it dawned on me after I had thought over it some. That summer was the closest I had truly been to living in present time. I was happy at Oxford because I never knew what was around the corner. I was happy because the things I had done in the past did not matter. What was important was the day-to-day—the books I was reading and the sun in the mornings and the people I encountered. Things made sense, for a brief time, because it felt as if I was living exactly as I was supposed to. It’s how I imagine it’s supposed to be when you are young and naïve and the world is still tender, still undiscovered, still fresh. And we are. And it is. Isabella Kwai is a Trinity senior. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays.

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istrators if Duke can become a leader in trying to change this trend,” she said. Willingham noted that she hopes Brodhead will respond to the petition with a statement confirming his neutrality in matters related to Duke Teaching First. USAS is optimistic about the effect the petition will have on the administration, Nuckols explained. “We’re confident that President Brodhead will receive it and respond in a positive way,” she said.

VOLLEYBALL from page 4 Ada Zhang | The Chronicle Four students representing Duke United Students Against Sweatshops delivered a petition in support non-tenure track faculty to President Richard Brodhead’s office Wednesday.

USAS from page 1 and students.” Problems that non-tenure track faculty face include low wages and uncertain contracts, noted sophomore Ashlyn Nuckols, the media communications chair for USAS. She explained that faculty members’ contracts only last for one semester, leaving them uncertain about their futures. “It puts worry and strain on them and makes it a lot harder for them to focus on providing care for their students,” she said. Betsy Tremmel, adjunct professor of English for international students and member of Duke Teaching First, wrote in an email that she is thrilled with the support from USAS. “I think some students may assume . . .

that all instructors are compensated equally for their time and effort in teaching, that they all have health insurance, and that they all have secure jobs,” she wrote. “Duke Teaching First wants to work to help make that assumption a reality.” Because many people do not know about problems that non-tenure track faculty face, USAS kicked off a campaign at the beginning of the semester to generate conversations on campus about these issues, Williingham said. They began with the petition to spotlight the issue. She added that USAS will continue to support Duke Teaching First as the group unionizes. The unfair treatment of non-tenure track faculty at Duke is a symptom of a national problem, Nuckols said. “It will be beneficial to students and admin-

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with a scrappy defense that leads the Big Ten in digs per set with 17.2. The Wolverines (90) have held their opponents to an average hitting percentage of .140, which will prove to be a challenge for the Blue Devil hitters, led by freshman Leah Meyer and senior Emily Sklar. If Duke wants to pass the test against the Wolverines, it will need to swing hard and take advantage of every offensive opportunity. One matchup to look for will be at the middle blocker position, where two seemingly unstoppable forces will collide. Michigan Junior Abby Cole—a preseason All-Big Ten selection—is coming off a weekend during which she averaged an impressive .567 hitting percentage across three matches and was named the MVP of the Wolverines’ Michigan Challenge tournament. Across the net will be Meyer, who had a career-high 17 kills against UNC Wilmington. The Clarence, N.Y., native also leads the team in hitting percentage and kills on the year.

“Leah in particular in the middle blocker position has really stepped in and done a nice job, and each week it seems like she makes a little bit more of an impact,” Nagel said. “She’s really coming along and we’ve only had three weeks of competition, so it’s really exciting to see how much she can possibly develop this season and contribute for our team.” Although Nagel is excited about the talent that individual players like Meyer bring to the table, she emphasized that the team will only find success if it improves its cohesion and communication. “We need to continue to work as a team,” Nagel said. “I really think at times, we aren’t always working together as a team, and that’s where some of the errors crop in and some of the inconsistency crops in.” After a quick turnaround, Duke will face a Michigan State team with a slightly different dynamic. The Spartans (6-3) are heavy hitters, leading the Big Ten in kills per set thanks to 2014 All-America Honorable Mention Chloe Reinig. The team’s successful hitting has led to trouble for opposing defenses, which are averaging just 12.7 digs per set. To secure a win against Michigan State, the Blue Devils will need a successful defensive effort from their back row, which includes junior Sasha Karelov, sophomore Nicole Elattrache and freshman Kelli Kalinoski. Duke held UNC Wilmington to a .055 hitting percentage and will need a similar effort against the high-powered Spartans. To do this, the team is working on improving its ability to win serve-receive points. “One of the things we’ve looked at this week is our side-out ability,” Nagel said. “We’ve been working on that and trying to see what we can do to make that a little bit more efficient, so hopefully we will see some of those results as we go into this weekend’s matches.”

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