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Investigators IS EAST HOUSE SUBSTANCE FREE? ‘Miscommunication’ search for from HRL fuels connection confusion about dorm’s policy between armed robberies By Kyle Melatti

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Investigators are searching for connections between an attempted armed robbery on campus Monday night and a second armed robbery reported around the same time near Duke’s campus. The University issued a DukeAlert Monday night after an attempted armed robbery was reported around 10:56 p.m. in the Wannamaker fire lane. The Durham Police Department stated that an armed robbery was also reported “around 11 p.m.” on Burch Avenue, in the area near the Emily Krzyzewski Center. The robbery was reported on Burch’s 800 block, just more than a mile from the fire lane. John Dailey, chief of Duke University Police Department, wrote in an email to The Chronicle that an investigator is working closely with Durham investigators for connections between the two cases. The Durham Police Department is handling the Burch Avenue incident, Dailey explained. Kammie Michael, spokesperson of Durham Police Department, wrote in an email to The Chronicle that a 22-year-old man parked his vehicle on Burch Avenue and was quickly approached by two men demanding money at gunpoint. The men pushed the victim to the ground and stole his phone, keys and 2017 Mazda CX-5. The suspects were described as black males in their early 20s, one of whom was wearing an orange or pink hoodie, Michael wrote in an email to The Chronicle. No charges have been filed, Michael added. In the Wannamaker fire lane robbery near Towerview Road, there were also two suspects. One was described as a “dark skin male, wearing [a] grey hoodie” and armed with a handgun in a DukeAlert issued at 11:38 p.m. Monday. The other was not described in the alert, which also did not specify if the victim was a student or not. Dailey wrote to The Chronicle Tuesday that the pair was driving a “dark color, four door sedan.” Tuesday night, another DukeAlert was issued after two female students said they were inappropriately touched near Campus Drive.

Ju Hyun Jeon | News Photography Editor For first-years, the only substance-free dorm is Jarvis. But East House residents got a surprise at their first resident assistant meeting this year when they were asked to sign forms committing to a substance-free environment.

At the beginning of the year, East House residents were informed their hall was substance free. The next day, that was reversed. After the first resident assistant meeting of the year Aug. 21, where residents were told that their dorm would be substance free, students were swift to voice their protests against the policy change. East House is not the typical location for the Substance Free Community— Jarvis has historically been the only substancefree dorm on East Campus. “Only Jarvis is substance free,” wrote Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean for residential life, in an email to The Chronicle. “There was some confusion about this when the building opened, but students have been updated.” Gonzalez also sent an email to East House residents Aug. 22 apologizing for the blunder in communication. See MISCOMMUNICATION on Page 4

Florence: Why students left, where they went By Isabelle Doan News Editor

Itamar Barak was taking no chances that week. Barak, a sophomore from Israel, had never dealt with a hurricane before. With no ocean around his home country, he had no experience to draw on as Hurricane Florence barreled toward the Carolinas. His mother and his own reason told him to get out, and so he fled Durham for Boston. “Duke was very good with canceling classes and declaring an emergency, so we have the chance to leave without the consequences of missing work,” Barak said. “And I just used that opportunity to get out.” Due to the severity of Florence, the University canceled classes last week 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. With a fourday break from classes, some students took the opportunity to leave campus. Many quickly took different attitudes toward leaving Duke. A meme was posted the Duke Memes for Gothicc Teens Facebook page, with the text “the legacies and 1% flying home to Manhattan” on a lifeboat, and “me: fighting a sophomore for West Union’s last crouton”

Bre Bradham | Contributing Photographer Some students preferred to leave campus rather than stick around for the hurricane.

captioning the Titanic, which was sinking in the background. Barak, however, felt that staying on campus would not be responsible. “What is really bothering me is that I think a lot of people don’t realize how dangerous it is,” Barak said. “The people that stay on campus were preparing—they bought food, they bought supplies—but a lot of people were

staying because they didn’t even think it could affect them, and I think that’s irresponsible.” Barak said that although he lives on West Campus, he was concerned for those living on Central Campus, since structures on Central are not suitable for strong winds. He noted that many students in the See FLORENCE on Page 4

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US should replace paper money with national cryptocurrency, Fuqua professor says By Bella Almeida

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Going paperless is the new trend—and our currency could be next, according to a Duke professor. Campbell Harvey, J. Paul Sticht professor of international business at the Duke Fuqua School of Business, not only said on CBS News Aug. 26 that the United States should create a national cryptocurrency, but also that eliminating paper-based transactions is inevitable. According to Harvey, a national cryptocurrency would solve many of our currency’s problems—from replacing worn banknotes to crimes like counterfeiting, tax evasion and blackmarket sales. “In the future, it doesn’t make sense that we’re using paper for currency,” Harvey said in the interview. Harvey argued that trading pieces of paper is impractical when so much of the world is already digitized. For example, he said that less than 2 percent of Swedish transactions are done in cash, and China has led the charge on mobile banking, transferring $13.7 trillion on mobile devices in 2017. Harvey also noted that many governments are pursuing the blockchain technology—which serves as the “serial number” of the virtual dollar—needed to build a national cryptocurrency. This is crucial because, if the government were to simply digitize the dollar, then replicating it would be as easy as counterfeiting cash. Since the technology is already available, Harvey emphasized that a shift to a national cryptocurrency is “not hard to forecast.” But he said that many people do not share this view because of “conservatism” with respect to money. Though critics rail against the lack of privacy, claiming the government will be able to track every purchase and transfer— Harvey cautioned against this logic. “If you use a credit card, or a debit card, or Venmo, that’s not private,” Harvey told The Chronicle.

It is still unclear whether a national cryptocurrency, if implemented, will include privacy provisions. Yet Harvey maintained that cryptocurrency will soon become the norm. Though it will not be next year—different countries go digital at different speeds—he said this digital revolution will begin in the small to medium countries, like Sweden, in as little as four to five years. When asked if these national cryptocurrencies will increase the digital divide between the developed and undeveloped world, Harvey disagreed. In fact, he said the digital transition will actually progress more quickly in developing countries, because the need is greater—most of these countries have few banks, and most of their people lack credit cards.

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“This is a great social innovation also,” Harvey said on CBS. There are about 2 billion people who are shut out from making electronic transactions, or “unbanked,” Harvey said. A national cryptocurrency would allow them to buy and sell things online through their phones—an iPhone costs $25 in Africa, and, if people lack electricity, small solar panels are available for charging cell phones, he said. “[Mobile banking] is just a computer program,” Harvey said. “All you need is a phone and some connection to the internet.” With the switch to cryptocurrency imminent, if the U.S. wants to remain the basis for currencies around the world, Harvey said it should be aggressive in investing in the infrastructure for a national cryptocurrency.

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Context is key when it comes to political debates, journalist Isaac Bailey says in Tuesday talk By John Markis Contributing Reporter

Appearances can be deceiving in a number of ways, Issac Bailey told an audience at a Tuesday event. During his hour-long conversation with students and faculty, Bailey—a Harvard Nieman Fellow—spoke about the intersection of race and politics. Invited by the Center for Political Leadership, Innovation and Service in conjunction with the Duke chapter of the NAACP, he emphasized that personal bias can affect the veracity of a report. “The context of facts is everything,” he said. Bailey gave an example from his own life—he once “picked up a prostitute and then accidentally told his wife.” Although his remark raised eyebrows and drew a few scattered laughs, Bailey quickly explained that he was driving through Myrtle Beach, S.C., when he saw a disheveled woman bleeding from her skinned knees on the side of the road. He took her to the nearest hospital, where he unintentionally called his wife when he sat on his phone. Although Bailey technically based his initial statement in truth, the circumstances surrounding the incident completely altered how people judged his action. Bailey extended that same logic to the prevalence of murders committed by black men. He said that he confronts this issue regularly, as conservatives within his national audience critique his calls for reform in American policing by citing that black men, only 6 percent of the population, account for about half of the national murders.

Mary Helen Wood | Associate Photography Editor Journalist Isaac Bailey, a Harvard Nieman Fellow, visited campus Tuesday to talk about political discourse.

Readers often ask Bailey to justify his position, he explained, as this percentage of black murderers seemingly indicates innate violence. Bailey posed the dilemma to the audience, and the response was unambiguous: the factors which penetrate a specific community—especially with reference to gang violence—should not apply to an entire population. Bailey admitted that he no longer takes the time to respond to his readers by

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identifying flaws in their arguments. These folks aren’t intent on hosting a serious discussion, he explained. Furthermore, Bailey described the deception in categorizing any group as a monolith. For instance, he pointed out the hypocrisy in the fact that white men execute mass shootings and become serial killers much more frequently than black men. No one legitimately suggests that white men are predisposed to these heinous crimes, and Bailey called for society to

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bestow that same presumption of innocence to black men. Invoking statistics, Bailey illustrated the ways in which those with an agenda misconstrue the alleged threat of black men. Bailey reminded that—though the abovementioned 50 percent figure appears colossal at first glance—it amounts to only 7,000 in a population of 11 million young black men. Moreover, brutal home circumstances during one’s formative years spur many men into homicidal activity. Bailey disclosed his own turbulent family life with an abusive, alcoholic father who beat his mother, barely more than a child herself, and the stringent regulations imposed on blacks in a Jim Crow-era sundown town. Bailey surmised that a lack of stability contributed directly to the incarceration of four of his eight brothers. In Bailey’s view, many people overlook these conditions and examine his brothers as mere additions to a statistic. “All of the context washes away and is forgotten. All they know and want to know is that each one is a monster,” he said. Ultimately, Bailey told the audience to challenge the status quo and explore beyond the peripheries. In his own writing, he has confronted acts of discrimination fostered by President Trump’s administration and also discussed the May 2018 incident at the Joe Van Gogh coffee shop between Larry Moneta, Duke’s vice president for student affairs, and a cashier. “We have to continue to grapple with the truth, even when it’s hard,” he said.

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“We didn’t get hit as badly,” she said. “But I mostly just went home to see my family because it’s a free break.” She noted that she was concerned about driving, but not necessarily her safety in the storm. international selective living group Mundi left their Junior Pingyi Zhu went home as well. She section in Central for safer noted that her main reasons for leaving were locations. Although some stayed with friends and I just knew that it was time that Florence was not going to hit her home family in the United States, off. And if I went home, state of Virginia as hard, and that she only lived three hours away. others stayed closer to Duke. my mom would cook for “I just decided to come home because Duke “I know some people canceled school for the rest of the week, and I who actually booked hotel me. rooms,” Barak said, citing didn’t really want to be there if anything was audrey ellis going to happen,” she said. that the hotel would be safer SENIOR She noted that although she did not want to be than Central. in Durham if it flooded, she left mostly because Barak also had concerns with flooding, loss of power and falling trees. After hearing of convenience. about a mother and child killed by a fallen tree on their “If I didn’t live a driving distance away, I probably home, he was concerned. wouldn’t have gone home,” she said. “It’s a really scary situation,” he said. Ellis echoed this convenience. Senior Audrey Ellis left Duke for her own home in upstate “I just knew that it was time off,” Ellis said. “And if I went South Carolina. home, my mom would cook for me.”

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“Unfortunately, we dropped the ball in communicating about this change within the Housing & Residence Life team so your Res Life team was operating under the original plan that East Res Hall would also be substance free,” Gonzalez wrote to the residents. He wrote that there were more individuals than usual who requested substance-free housing, so HRL originally made plans to put both Jarvis and East House under the policy. Conflicting interests such as the FOCUS program and sports housing made it difficult to place the students who had actually requested substancefree housing. East House residents discovered that they were under substance-free policies on the first day of move-in, when their RAs brought substance-free agreement forms and told residents to sign them. “We found out in our first RA meeting,” first-year Eli Vail, an East House resident, said. “He brought out the sheets of paper that you have to initial which say that its substancefree. We were looking around the room and somebody asked if anybody had signed up for it, and not a single person in the room had.” Out of 10 East House students asked by The Chronicle, none of them said they had requested substance-free dorms. They all said they would object if East House were to shift to a substance-free campus. Sophomore Amit Sarma, a resident assistant for East House, wrote that “a majority of my residents said that they were not aware that East House was a substance free dorm” when he passed around the contracts. All of East Campus is “dry,” meaning that no one is allowed to possess alcohol on campus. However, students in the Substance Free Community are required to sign a contract pledging that they will not consume any alcohol, tobacco or drugs or show up to the dorm under the influence. Substance-free residents will be relocated if they cannot abide by the policy, according to the contract. Students request this type of housing in order to be surrounded by like-minded individuals who do not wish to use substances to alter their educational experience, several Jarvis residents told The Chronicle. MJ Williams, director of housing assignments and planning, stated that East House was not supposed to be substance-free. “It was never substance-free,” she stated. “There was a miscommunication.” Nathan Luzum contributed reporting.

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After returning home from my Duke Engage in Charlotte this summer, I spent a good chunk of my month before school thinking about school. Perhaps too much of that time. But this year is an important one. Sophomore year is major declaration year. For someone like me, whose interests vary widely and don’t seem to make any sense, that idea is intimidating. It doesn’t help that I’m a planner. That tab in DukeHub that allows you to plan out your courses for your entire time at Duke? Yeah, I’m the person who’s made at least five different potential paths, depending on varying combinations of majors, minors and certificates. People keep telling me that it’s not a big deal, that your major doesn’t determine your life path. And they’re right. I know they are. But that doesn’t diminish the anxiety I feel when someone asks me what I’m studying. I wish I were able to say with certainty, “This is what I want to do. This is who I want to be.” I came to Duke thinking I would be a public policy major and headed to law school after graduation. My first semester, I thought I might do environmental sciences and policy. Second semester, I tried physics. Over the summer, I had a job in education. Now, I’m taking computer science 201, public policy 155, art history 232 and French 304, along with doing a Bass Connections about girls’ math identities. It’s the same with my extracurriculars. They are all things that I’m passionate about and really interested in, but together they don’t exactly make the most cohesive story. The Chronicle, obviously, is a big one, but so are Science Olympiad, frisbee and APO (the service fraternity). Then there are also my on-campus jobs: the Duke Innovative Design Agency and recently, a collections repair assistant in the libraries. I have a passion for art, science, athletics, journalism and service. All of these pursuits have given me something, and they have

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In Transit: Arts & Migration Around Europe September 13, 2018 – January 6, 2019 This fall, the Nasher Museum collaborates with the Rubenstein Arts Center, John Hope Franklin Center and the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library to present a multi-site art installation, In Transit: Arts & Migration Around Europe. At the Nasher Museum, In Transit introduces, through art, a new history and context to the ongoing global refugee crisis.

Detail of Danfrie, Johan Moreau and Philippe, Astrolabe: Western Paris, France, 1584 – 1622. Wood, paper, brass W-98a. Courtesy of Adler Planetarium, Chicago, Illinois. In Transit is sponsored by the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke’s Departments of Romance Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies; by the French and Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and the Duke Center for French and Francophone Studies; the Center for International and Global Studies and; the Social Practice Lab of the Franklin Humanities Institute. In Transit has also benefited from an Intellectual Communities grant from the Provost’s Office, and an Arts and Sciences Council Research grant; support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, the Office of the Dean of the Humanities, the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, the Duke Human Rights Archive, the Duke Africa Initiative, and the Puffin Foundation.

also allowed me to explore a different part of my identity. But the question for the future is, how do these fit together? And how can I choose just one or two of these to pursue more deeply? Well, at one point this summer, I stumbled across some videos of art conservation. I took a sharp turn away from policy and science to think about art for a while. I spent hours watching conservators from various museums test and clean art objects, then treat them to better display and preserve the pieces. I pored over websites detailing requirements for art conservation graduate schools and compulsively searched for information about

staff note gaining experience and exposure (read: internships) to the conservation field. I think this idea seemed a little odd to my parents and friends. Even I thought it was a little strange. I hadn’t expressed an interest in continuing to pursue art history beyond my high school AP class. I think I may have suppressed that interest due to expectations from peers, friends, family and even myself. The expectation that I do something grand and important and distinguished. Now, that doesn’t really seem to matter so much. I think — I hope — that stumbling across art conservation and rekindling that interest in art history will be good for me. It’s a small field, and requires excellence in understanding and creating art, as well as a firm grasp of chemical principles. It’s a field that will push me to be better and to continue to learn. To

me, the preservation of art and culture is vital because future generations deserve to experience art in the way that we can now. It’s a shame that so much has already been lost to the ravages of time. At this point, this is the path that I may pursue: work that preserves our cultural heritage for the future. It’s not terribly glamorous or prestigious in the eye of a typical Duke student — it certainly doesn’t make much money — but it’s important to me. I’m still apprehensive, though. I feel like I’m taking a fairly large step away from the beaten path, heading into a field that I don’t think my parents ever expected and that not many Duke undergraduate students go into, as far as I know. I’m still in the process of feeling out the field, attempting to find guidance and learning more about what working in conservation would really be like. That’s a big part of why I jumped at the opportunity to work in collection repair, and so far, it’s been good. The first day was a little crazy, with the thunderstorms, flooding and potential conservation emergencies. The work I’ve been doing wasn’t quite that exciting, but I like it. I hope this spark continues to grow into a lasting passion for the work that I’ll be doing. I worry that it could just as easily die down again in the face of social pressures and diminishing novelty. But for now, I’ll try to let go of those worries and enjoy what I’m doing. Ask me again how I feel in March. -Selena Qian

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Anthropology professor reflects on background in ballet and academia By Ashley Kwon Social Media Editor

Anne-Maria Makhulu did not always plan to become an associate professor of anthropology and African American studies. Originally from the U.K., she began training as a ballerina when she was just four years old. “Perhaps what was a little unusual was that I continued,” Makhulu said. “People started dropping out at a certain point, and I just carried on.” After her family moved to Geneva, Makhulu began to think more seriously about becoming a professional ballerina. When she was 12 years old, Makhulu faced the first critical moment in her training as a dancer as her family decided to move to Botswana. Her ballet teacher in Geneva suggested she audition for a full-time ballet conservatory under the U.K.’s Royal Ballet company. However, her mother was concerned about leaving her daughter alone in the U.K., so Makhulu ended up following her family to Botswana. “We had to cobble together some ballet classes for me as best we could” Makhulu said. While in Botswana, her family managed to find a South African ballet teacher who crossed the border every Friday to give Makhulu lessons over the weekend. She also tried out new genres including jazz and traditional dances of different countries. Without the institutional support that a ballet school would have provided her, Makhulu missed crucial years of intense training between ages 12 and 16. When she turned 16, she finally joined a ballet boarding school in the U.K. But she experienced several difficulties, including training with her peers who joined the school as young as 8 years old and being one of the few students of color. Makhulu

recalled that she began to realize some limitations that she would face while training to become a ballerina in the U.K. Discrimination based on students’ skin color was so deeply entrenched into the ballet school’s system that everyone considered it normal. “Somehow it was acceptable to say that different human beings had different body types and therefore black bodies or bodies of color were not suitable for classical dance,” Makhulu said. “It was really quite shocking, but we all sort of went along with it, because that was what people said.” Makhulu eventually decided to move to the United States to fulfill her dream as an aspiring dancer and received a scholarship to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, a school attached to one of the first dance groups for dancers of color. “It was new to me that this was a possibility and also quite liberating, because the shocking thing about the world of dance, and particularly classical ballet, is that it continues to be quite slow to integrate,” Makhulu said. However, in her mid-20s, she decided to give up her career as a dancer and enroll at Columbia University as an undergraduate. “I danced as long as I could,” she said. “[But] if you want to have a career in dance, you have to be more than great. You have to be amazing.” She had to give up her childhood dream of becoming a ballerina. But studying at Columbia enabled her to discover the parallel between dance and intellectual life, especially because both required self-control. “The way I was trained as a dancer… involved a great deal of discipline, self-consciousness… and relationships to rhythm and other bodies,” Makhulu said. “Intellectual life actually takes a great deal of discipline too. You spend an enormous

amount of time reading, re-reading, writing…and revising in order to get to the place where you are able to say something that may be important or insightful.” Wanting to major in social sciences like her mother, who studied politics, philosophy and economics, she explored different subjects, including psychology, political science and sociology. Eventually, she chose anthropology. “I figured out that anthropology was the place where I felt most at home, and [the subject] made the most sense to me as someone who had lived all over the world,” Makhulu said. “Anthropology… is most interested in and most committed to the social sciences of cultural differences.” Makhulu found South Africa particularly appealing for her anthropological studies due to her father, who had to leave the country in the early 1960s because of its political situation and who later ran an underground railroad to help other South Africans escape. Makhulu’s family could not go to South Africa throughout her childhood, but

interacting with those who left the country and activists helping South Africans in exile or refugee camps impacted Makhulu, especially when she lived in Botswana. She was also fortunate to be a part of the first groups of anthropologists to visit the country after the end of Apartheid. “The fact that I started earning my doctoral degree at the time when South Africa was undergoing a political transition and it timed out in such a way that I was a part of the very first generation of anthropologists who were able to go back to South Africa because it was now safe to go and do research, made it an obvious choice to me,” she said. While continuing her career as an anthropologist with interests in areas including South African literature, neoliberalism and globalization, she stays physically active, just like she was when she was a dancer, running marathons and trying cross-fit. “When I go running long enough, ... I start to have really good ideas about my work,” she said. “I have to live a life that is both physical and mental,” Makhulu said.

Photo Courtesy of Duke Arts Anne-Maria Makhulu started her career as a ballet dancer, but transitioned into studying anthropology.

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“BoJack Horseman” tests our empathy in another stunning season By Will Atkinson Culture editor

Last fall, the fourth season of “BoJack Horseman” landed — perhaps for the first time in the show’s run — on something like hope. Up to that point, each season had been a successive spiral for the titular protagonist, the narcissistic former movie star’s mistakes inexorably driving him, and those around him, further into darkness. But with the end of last year’s season, things seemed to be looking up for BoJack Horseman. Of course, if anything has become obvious since the Netflix series’ premiere in 2014, it’s that BoJack never learns. “BoJack Horseman” began amid a crowded field of male anti-heroes on television, its tale of a depressed animated horse (in a world populated by both humans and upright animals, a conceit that has never run dry as fodder for easy gags) not too far off from the “Breaking Bad”s and “Mad Men”s that preceded it, to say nothing of the numerous Adult Swim-style animated comedies of its type. For this reason, the first season of the show received famously mixed reviews from critics — in part because they’d only been given the first half to screen — but the show quickly set itself apart after that rocky start. “BoJack Horseman” has managed to meld heartbreaking drama, meta humor, timely social satire, perceptive depictions of mental illness and a truly impressive visual aesthetic like little else on television. The fact that BoJack never learns has played well into the artistic liberties the showrunners have taken with “BoJack Horseman”’s eminently binge-worthy serial format; it’s not uncommon for the main character to suffer a devastating personal failure in one episode, only to brush it off (at least temporarily) in the following episode. Season five of “BoJack Horseman” continues this streak, once again indulging in experiments in narrative structure and showing no signs of exhaustion after nearly half a decade on air. And importantly, it reminds us that its

protagonist, despite any gains he’s made, seems bent on remaining just beyond our empathy. At the conclusion of the fourth season, audiences had some reason to hope for the better: BoJack (voiced by Will Arnett) and Hollyhock (Aparna Nancherla), his long lost half-sister, arrived at a promising, if tenuous, point of friendship; Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris) managed to secure the script of “Philbert”— her first TV show as a producer, and a proxy for the child she’d attempted to conceive in season four — with BoJack cast as the lead actor. The start of season five, then, finds them in the midst of production for the new series — BoJack’s goal of leaving his “Horsin’ Around” years behind for more “serious” roles finally attained. Meanwhile, Todd (Aaron Paul) has moved from BoJack’s couch to Princess Carolyn’s, but his aimlessness is beginning to take a toll on his relationship with Yolanda, which continues the exploration of Todd’s asexuality begun in season four. If there’s one dramatic rupture that occurred in the intervening time between seasons, it’s between Mr. Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tompkins) and Diane (Alison Brie), whose marriage seemed all but over by the end of last season — evidently, they’ve been separated since then, and an early episode of the new season sees Mr. Peanutbutter hand over the signed divorce papers. Just as BoJack’s Oscar chase drove the plot of the show’s third season, the production of “Philbert” provides the narrative framework around which each of the characters’ stories revolves. But “Philbert” is more than just an excuse for another season of “BoJack Horseman.” Not by accident, “Philbert” bears an overt resemblance to BoJack’s own story. Sometimes, this parallel manifests itself more absurdly, like the fact that the set of “Philbert” just happens to be an inch-by-inch recreation of BoJack’s house (or was it David Boreanaz’s house?). The Rami Malek-voiced Flip, too, is a spot-on parody of the prestige-TV director, the genius who’s the only person in the room who thinks he’s a genius. (Of

“Philbert,” Princess Carolyn remarks, “It’s confusing, which means the show is daring and smart.”) But “Philbert” also reveals “BoJack Horseman”’s own awareness of its potential for normalizing abhorrent male behavior through its own protagonist. As BoJack says at a premiere party for “Philbert,” “I think that’s what the show says: We’re all terrible, so therefore we’re all okay.” It’s a lesson that could easily be taken from “BoJack Horseman” at times, even if, as the showrunners make clear, it’s an incorrect one. This discussion also opens the door to commentary on #MeToo that’s timely without feeling contrived. In a typical early-season “BoJack” episode, BoJack ends up on the media circuit as an unlikely feminist after a disgraced actor is in the running for a co-starring role on “Philbert.” (The applause line for BoJack? “Choking your wife is bad.”) In that case, the conversation about gender violence is used as a comic backdrop, but it can’t help but ensnare BoJack himself, whose toxic behavior, after all, is

nothing if not a central facet of his character. Three seasons later, BoJack’s inappropriate interaction with Penny, the 17-year-old daughter of an old friend, remains the consistent, underlying trauma in “BoJack Horseman,” the seemingly unforgivable deed that, up to this point, has never been fully addressed — beyond the passing “what happened in New Mexico.” It’s clear that BoJack feels remorse for his actions, but it’s not clear what, if anything, he’s willing to do to atone for them, beyond saying, “We’re all terrible, so therefore we’re all okay.” The eternal question, when it comes to BoJack, has always been: At what point will BoJack finally hold himself accountable for his actions? In other words, when will it not be okay? Season five of “BoJack Horseman” doesn’t give a definite answer to that question, but it brings us closer than ever before — and, in acknowledging that the character of a person is not so simple as “okay” versus “terrible,” it acknowledges that we may never get a straight answer.

Image Courtesy of Flickr The fifth season of Emmy-nominated series “BoJack Horseman” premiered on Netflix Sept. 14.

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For the first time in four years, David Cutcliffe will not be shaking Jerry Mack’s hand at the end of the game. With Mack moving on as Rice’s offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator Gransville Eastman has assumed the interim head coaching title, looking to boost N.C. Central back to the MEAC championship, which it missed out on last season for the first time since 2013. Cutcliffe is still wary of the Eagles, though, who have been outscored by Duke 164-13 in the teams’ past three crosstown matchups. “We realize the ability that [N.C.] Central has. I can tell you they’ve got some weapons that have hurt us before on offense,” Cutcliffe said. “I’m very impressed with what Coach Eastman and his staff have done. [Offensive coordinator] Coach [T.C.] Taylor does a terrific job. I like to watch what they do schematically over there.” Similar to Baylor—the Blue Devils’ opponent this past week—N.C. Central will start a young quarterback who saw a lot of time last season, just not against Duke. Sophomore Chauncey Caldwell started eight games in his first season under center, but attempted just one pass in the Blue Devils` 60-7 romp last year. Caldwell succeeded throughout the remainder of the year as a dual-threat quarterback, accounting for 15 total touchdowns. Caldwell also has received an infusion of

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at receiver on paper, it may be its strongest position group this season. Alongside junior wideout Xavier McKoy—who leads the team in receptions and yards—the Eagles brought in three standout transfers, including former N.C. State wide receiver Daeshawn Stephens, who has already made his mark with seven See SCOUTING on Page 9

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The Blue Devils seemed to have finally hit their stride offensively after a season-high four goals against Syracuse en route to a conferenceopening victory. Later this week, they will look to extend their winning streak to seven. The 13th-ranked Blue Devils are set to take on Miami at 7 p.m. No. 13 Thursday at Cobb Duke Stadium in Coral Gables, vs. Fla. Even though Duke Miami has been dominant offensively, the Blue Devil THURSDAY, 7 p.m. defense has been the key Cobb Stadium over the past few games Coral Gables, Fla. and has kept opponents scoreless for the last 230 minutes of play. Sunday’s win against the Orange marked the sixth clean sheet in nine games for the Duke defense, led by goaltender Brooke Heinsohn and defender Chelsea Burns. Burns, the sole senior defender, has guided a stout Blue Devil defense

The first of many losses for Duke’s defense came all the way back in January. On the heels of a season in which the Blue Devils held opponents to barely more than 20 points per game, then-defensive coordinator Jim Knowles was hired away by Oklahoma State. Head coach David Cutcliffe then made the unique decision to replace Knowles with not one, but two coaches, naming Ben Albert and Matt Guerrieri co-defensive coordinators. And not even two games into their tenure, Albert and Guerrieri lost arguably their best player when cornerback Mark Gilbert suffered a season-ending hip injury. But a blow as big as any came Saturday morning, hours before Duke’s matchup with Baylor. Guerrieri’s father, Jim, died at the age of 60 following a battle with cancer. “God bless the Guerrieri family. This is the most difficult time,” Cutcliffe said at his weekly press conference Tuesday. “[The defense is] having FaceTime meetings and they’re using technology to send film and scripts back and forth. I don’t know when [Matt’s] finding time to do that, but he’s his daddy’s son—that’s how his dad went about working.” Despite the many departures and changes, the Blue Devil defense has already shown that it may be better than last season’s group. Duke has surrendered just 48 points in the course of three wins, putting it on pace for the best season in terms of scoring defense in the Cutcliffe era. Although 382 yards per game is nearly 50 more than last season, it would still be an improvement compared to the seven seasons prior to 2017. In any season, injuries are guaranteed. But these Blue Devils have been stung by the injury bug time and time again. Safety Jeremy McDuffie still is not fully healed from an ACL injury late last year, and he along with defensive end Terrell Lucas didn’t travel to Texas this past weekend. Gilbert won’t play again in 2018, fellow cornerback Michael Carter II suffered an injury in the first quarter against the Bears and defensive tackle Edgar Cerenord is banged up and day-to-day. All of this is added to a team that is playing without its starting quarterback in Daniel Jones, who remains sidelined indefinitely. Yet the numbers tell the story of a team that has managed to gain from loss. “We all practice like we’re starters,” cornerback Myles Hudzick said Tuesday. “Prior to the game starting, probably four times I told Michael Carter and Josh Blackwell, ‘I got your back. Regardless of

supported by sophomores Taylor Mitchell and Karlie Paschall and freshman Delaney Graham. The mixture of youth and experience seems to be working so far, as Duke has allowed only four goals in nine games. “[The underclassmen] have made it easier on me,” Burns said. “A lot of defending and being a part of the back line is mentality, so I’ve taken it on myself to teach them what it’s about. My thing is fighting for one another every moment of every game, and trying to get them to buy into that and buying into me helps a lot.” Much of the Blue Devil defense presents a dual threat. Burns was the third-leading scorer on the 2017 squad and Paschall has scored two goals—both on penalty kicks—and notched three assists on the season. Graham and Mitchell have also recorded assists. Furthermore, many Blue Devil attacks this season have started from play on the defensive end. “We’ve been coached a lot on defending forward,” Burns said. “Helping each other out with organization while our forwards and midfielders are attacking has been pretty big for us.” Duke’s facilitation of offense through the

defense has been a result of head coach Robbie Church’s soccer philosophy. “One of the things we do really well is that we defend as a whole team,” Church said. “I think what separates the good teams from the great teams is how hard you work defensively. We’re not as good as we need to be, but we’re getting better in that area.” Contrasted with the Blue Devils’ success so far this season, Miami (3-4-2) has struggled out of the gates. The Hurricanes are coming off an overtime loss to Clemson and have lost to all four ranked opponents they have faced this year. Miami has fallen to Duke (7-1-1) in each of the teams’ last three matchups. In fact, the Hurricanes haven’t scored against the Blue Devils since 2012. Miami freshman Gudrun Haralz has tallied three goals and two assists on the season, making her the Hurricanes’ leading-scorer and tied for the team lead in assists. Haralz alongside defender Bayleigh Chaviers and goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce are going to have to perform at their best to have a chance to take down an explosive Duke squad.

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receptions and a touchdown to his name. On the other side of the ball, the Eagles boast two first-team all-conference performers. Junior Kawuan Cox headlines the front seven after being recognized last season as one of the top 29 players in HBCU football. Cox has already notched a sack this year, and at defensive end, may test an offensive line that did not surrender a sack last week in Waco, Texas. In the secondary, redshirt senior Davanta Reynolds is responsible for the primary playmaking duties, notching six interceptions, which ranked second in the FCS last year. So far, the Tucker, Ga., native leads the team in tackles and quarterback hits. “Defensively, that’s Coach Eastman’s area himself…. They know what they’re doing, they’re athletic in the back end, they play hard, they run from sideline to sideline,” Cutcliffe said. “They make you execute, and that’s what we have to continue to focus on.” Every season, despite seemingly insurmountable odds, an FCS team will pull off a major upset, something Cutcliffe is keenly aware of. He knows his squad will need to get off to another hot start in order to avoid giving the talented underdogs hope of landing a season-defining victory. “If you look around the country, it’s really been everything. We’ve seen a lot of circumstances where you may be looking at scores…and you’re seeing two minutes to go in the second quarter and somebody’s behind or it’s tied or whatever the circumstances may be,” Cutcliffe said. “Then you start thinking, ‘Wow, that’s going to be an upset.’ It’s always a part of football.”

what happens, I’ve got your back.’” Seemingly, once Duke’s young defenders have stepped in between the lines, the ball has found them. At Northwestern, Carter’s interception stopped a Wildcat drive in its tracks. At Baylor, Leonard Johnson—a redshirt freshman making his first-ever start—took a pick of his own to the house, putting the game out of reach. “Any young player...you’re right on the edge, you’re right on the edge,” Cutcliffe said. “When you finally make that play, everything changes.” Guerreri missed the middle of last week, heading home to the Cleveland area after last Tuesday’s practice to be with his family. He rejoined the team Thursday night in Waco, but didn’t tell any players or coaches that his father had died until after the game was over. Without half of their defensive coordinator pairing, the Blue Devils looked not only to other coaches, but also looked to veteran leaders like co-captains Ben Humphreys and Joe Giles-Harris as well as junior Dylan Singleton to pick up the slack. “Coach Albert’s doing a great job doing everything he can,” Hudzick said. “We feel for Coach Guerreri and we’re not allowing it to hinder our team without him being there. We’re going to do everything to be successful for him.” Duke’s defensive numbers will almost certainly go down this week. In the Blue Devils’ last three matchups with N.C. Central, the Eagles have scored a total of 13 points. That number includes a 2015 game when N.C. Central finished with less than 200 yards of

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Michael Carter II is day-to-day after leaving Saturday’s game in the first quarter. total offense and just nine first downs. As long as Jones is out, there will be questions as to whether Duke can put up enough points to compete and ultimately

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Michigan Law School. As the fastest-growing racial group in the nation, Asian-Americans are generally viewed as a successful, high-achieving model minority. Asian-American students do tend to outperform other students with higher grades and test scores, though this performance may be in part attributed to the high socioeconomic status of certain segments of the Asian-American population who come from highly educated backgrounds. However, upon disaggregating the data, it becomes clear that certain Asian-

Editorial Board American groups such as Southeast Asians do not fare as well as their counterparts. In fact, Asian-Americans now have the highest income inequality of any racial or ethnic group in the United States. These underrepresented groups of Southeast Asians, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans from low-income backgrounds do actually benefit from affirmative action policies. Of course, all students benefit from the diverse learning environments that such policies cultivate. Moreover, many AsianAmerican students have spoken out against the plaintiffs and have given their support to the current affirmative action policy in college admissions. Considering personal factors within a holistic admissions system is not a novel concept. As a means to exclude Jewish students, Harvard moved away from admissions based strictly on academics around 1920 and began evaluating potential students on a number of qualifiers meant to reveal “character”—a system that clearly favored white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant applicants. Despite this racist past, holistic review continues to be implemented today in a way that provides many benefits towards an equitable admissions process. Given that test scores are often correlated with income and

personal connections, colleges can account for students’ backgrounds and access to opportunity when they incorporate personal traits into their admission decisions. This raises the point, though, that perhaps we should not be looking towards the college admissions system to address fundamental inequalities in access to education. We should be reexamining the entire educational system and the ways in which it disproportionately disadvantages students from low-income families. Discrepancies exist largely because public school districts are run by local cities and towns and are funded by local property taxes. This means that areas with higher property taxes have better funded schools, which can offer newer textbooks, more advanced technology and higher-paid teachers. As a result, communities are seeing increased segregation by income between neighborhoods as higher-income families flock to these better schools to provide more opportunities for their children. It is this disparity in public education that leads lower-income students—often belonging to racial minorities—to be disadvantaged when they apply to college. No college admissions policy can be perfect. With record numbers of students applying to prestigious schools and a limited number of spots, it is difficult to identify the ideal formula to admit the best students who will align with the mission of a university. Nonetheless, the Harvard lawsuit makes clear that undoing affirmative action would make higher education decidedly more unequal. With the current state of inequity between wealthier and poorer districts in America’s education system, affirmative action policies are still needed in higher education; though in order to obtain the most diversity, these policies should focus more on wealth and socioeconomic status. Nonetheless, to find a permanent solution for combating disparities in access to education, we should turn our focus toward fixing the public education system on a more fundamental level.

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n accepting admission to Duke University, students must agree to uphold the Duke Community Standard. On move-in day, students are given a freshly printed copy of “The Duke Community Standard in Practice.” First-years are asked to sign the Duke Community Standard banner at the welcoming ceremony of Orientation Week. The Duke Community Standard is displayed in classrooms across campus, it’s

Duke Honor Council COLUMN mentioned again on the syllabi distributed during the first week and students may be expected to agree to it again during exams. For some, it may seem like the Duke Community Standard is everywhere, and yet there are still hundreds of cases of misconduct each year. The Duke Community standard is as follows: I will not lie, cheat, or steal in my academic endeavors; I will conduct myself honorably in all my endeavors; and I will act if the Standard is compromised. This commitment to honesty, fairness, respect, and accountability inside and outside the classrooms at Duke aims to build a strong community and encourage graduates to lead honorable lives beyond the university. It’s the goal of the Duke Honor Council to promote these principles across campus, but simply reminding students of the Duke Community Standard may not be enough; the Standard and the core values and principles behind it must be understood, internalized, and acted upon if we wish to turn ethical aspirations into realities. To understand the Duke Community Standard, one must not only read each line carefully but also understand the history of the commitment and its role in the community. It’s a fairly new facet of the Duke community: we’ve discussed this history in previous columns. These details behind the Community Standard reveal that Duke is not an institution with a long-standing honor system, but that doesn’t excuse us from dishonorable behavior. Hence, the Community Standard The first line of the Duke Community Standard is very straightforward, but it’s important to recognize that it extends beyond exams and graded assignments– we

should not lie, cheat or steal on homework, research and all aspects of academia. Students most often encounter the Duke Community Standard inside the classroom, but the second line emphasizes its purview over all facets of life. A challenge with this line, however, is the definition of honorable conduct. In general, honorable actions are honest, fair or worthy of respect; think about whether your family or mentors would be proud of your behavior. The University outlines prohibited behaviors in the Duke Community Standard in Practice, but it’s also important to remember to think about whether your permitted behaviors are truly honorable. Finally, the Spring 2007 addition of the third line—the Obligation to Act—commits students to act when they see violations of the Duke Community Standard. Acting doesn’t require reporting in all cases, but it should aim to correct the situation, put the individual(s) involved back on track, and contribute to building a stronger Duke community in the process. To internalize the Duke Community Standard, it should not only be understood but it should also be accepted at an individual level. Think about what it means to you, why it’s important, and how you can continue to uphold it every day. Internalizing these principles allows everyone to act honorably in all their endeavors and contribute to a stronger Duke community. The Duke Honor Council is committed to building a stronger Duke community around the Duke Community Standard, and we hope that you will support our efforts! This year we’ll be focusing our work on projects inside and outside the classrooms at Duke and beyond to encourage community members to embody honor and integrity now and into the future. In addition to this year’s projects, we’ll be continuing our monthly programming events which culminates in our annual Integrity Week series in March. Moreover, this year’s biweekly columns will feature pieces written by council members on various topics relating to honor, integrity, and moral courage. Check out our website for more information about our group, our projects, and our upcoming events. Honor at Duke, however, is more than just our organization and its events; we hope to encourage dialogue on these topics and build a stronger community with you all in the process– come join us! This week’s column was written by Trinity senior Nick Santangelo.

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In defense of my impractical major

stumbled upon my first sociology class my freshman spring and was immediately smitten. I used to call my mom from the first floor of Perkins to gush about my readings, and to me, that was a sign that sociology was something I should pursue. So I decided to major in sociology because I liked it. And when you come to Duke, you should study something you like, right? But when you major in something like sociology—or really, when you major in anything other than a natural science, engineering, computer science, public policy, or economics— people become intent on figuring out why. When someone

Ethan Ahuna COLUMNIST tells me they are majoring in public policy, or biomedical engineering, or biology, I usually say something generic, like, “oh that’s cool!” When I admit to being a sociology major, I get hit with the timeless, dreaded question: “So...what do you want to do with that?” I think we have an idea that majors are somehow less rigorous—or at least less practical—when there is not a clear and prosperous career path that logically follows them. So you’re a biology or chemistry major? Great, you’ll be a scientist or a doctor. Studying econ? Are you thinking banking, or is financial consulting more your style? You’re a computer science major? To which tech companies are you applying this summer? I know it’s unfair of me to assume that everyone in said

majors wants to follow such prescribed paths, and I’m not here to major-shame anyone in a piece about my shamed major. But if you are one of those majors and do want to take that path, it’s there for you. There is a certain type of comfort in a program of study that can offer you a shiny pot of job security at the end of its rainbow. As Duke students, we like to know that we will succeed. We are accepted to this school partly because we scored top marks in almost every high school class we took. At the end of each semester, we break out the calculators and figure out exactly what score we need on a final to get an A in the class. We take solace in the fact that as long as we graduate, the word “Duke” on our resume will give us a leg up. Most of us are scared by the great unknown, because in the great unknown we might not always come out on top. So when there’s no agreed-upon trajectory that follows someone’s bachelor’s degree, we tend to subconsciously or overtly ask why someone—given the immense pressure and lofty tuition costs of Duke—would take that risk without the virtual guarantee of real-world payoff. But here’s why I love sociology: My roommate, a neuroscience major planning on medical school, told me that her medical sociology course was the most impactful class she’s taken at Duke. Instead of just memorizing facts or mastering procedures, she was forced to face the socioeconomic and race-based healthcare disparities that exist in the United States and consider how the medical system she plans to work in can perpetuate or resolve those disparities. Because that’s the thing about an “impractical” major like mine: it might not give you concrete skills or abilities to succeed in a particular field, but it instills a mindset that teaches you to always look for questions: How does Hurricane

Florence impact the Carolinas outside of college students getting a four-day weekend? What is the effect of the upscale off-campus apartment building where I live on the livelihoods of lower-income Durhamites who have been here for generations? It’s a mindset that has helped me become more intentional about the choices I make at Duke: Am I doing this just because it seems popular or impressive, or is this really what I want? And it’s a critical view of the world that will serve me well in any workplace and any life situation that comes my way. If you give me jobs to do or skills to learn, I can figure out the job or master the skills if I put in the effort. But the spirit of questioning, the search for implications, and the reflective lens with which I’ve learned to view the world are not something a tutorial or a handbook could ever teach me. I will graduate Duke with a completely different set of skills from those of many of my friends. My coding ability is limited to plotting a line graph on R. Two years after I took Neuroscience 101 to satisfy an NS requirement, I do not remember the names nor functions of the different parts of the brain. And I really, truly have no idea what “fluid mechanics” even means. I will probably not be working in medicine, tech, engineering, banking or consulting, but—contrary to Duke’s popular belief—that does not mean I cannot be equally successful. I studied something I thoroughly enjoy, and it taught me how to think about the world in a way that no job and no set of facts ever could. So if anyone is looking to hire a graduating Duke senior with minimal technical skills but a lot of good questions to ask, please shoot me an email at eja14@duke.edu or add me on LinkedIn. Ethan Ahuna is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

New school year, new hurricane

remember one morning last September, my parents called me and told me that my neighborhood was flooded and water levels were slowly rising. They were going to start moving everything up to the second floor. Before my 8:45,

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apart in my head. What went on at home felt completely separate from my day-to-day life. Even though the disaster last year could have had lasting impacts on my life, it never got close to that in my mind. As my family was cooped up in our house for weeks, I went on with my busy life relatively unaffected. Life at Duke doesn’t stop for our outside lives. Our numerous responsibilities from our classes, organizations and jobs continue to be thrown at us. And while we sign up for this intensity somewhat willingly, circumstances in our life change. When these changes occur in places miles away from home, it can be easy to ignore them in order to focus on the tasks at hand. While

this is essentially a part of growing up, many of us are still halfway between living at home and complete independence. This makes personal issues in both places more difficult, as we may not have the support systems we are used to in each respective place. When a big change was happening at home during Harvey, the people I would’ve gone to first were the ones being affected. The distance made it easier to compartmentalize my issues, but harder to address my feelings in a healthy way. Last week, the Duke community got word about Hurricane Florence hitting the coast and its projected pathway that included the Triangle area. This time, it was

my life at Duke that was in flux. My family and friends from back home were now the ones reaching out to me and making sure I was prepared. Although the hurricane ended up swerving off course and did not hit our area as hard as expected, we had no way of knowing that earlier. Life at Duke took a literal pause in order to prepare for the hurricane. It was easier for me to accommodate changes in my schedule since everyone else around me was going through the same changes. There was a sense of solidarity among students on campus that made the pre-hurricane vibe a mixture of anticipation and unity. Maybe it was purely the privilege I experience as a Duke student, but I felt much less afraid before this hurricane compared to the loneliness I felt last year when the disaster was happening back at home. Last year, my home in Houston was spared from being flooded. Most homes in my neighborhood were not. So far at Duke, we have avoided the worst of the storm, although the impacts on other areas in the Carolinas have been severe. Both situations have made me realize how important family is to me in times of crisis, but also how removed my family feels from my life at Duke. Additionally, preparing for the hurricanes showed me more about how I feel about my two homes; I tend to take each one for granted while I’m at the other. Having such a busy, distant life at Duke can make it difficult to emotionally deal with drastic events back home, including natural disasters, loss of loved ones, and the general turmoil of life. On the flipside, returning home allows us to ignore our rapidly compounding issues of schoolwork, volunteer and work experience, and future careers. The reality is we have to address our problems in each place eventually, no matter how distant they seem.

I went to the Oasis outside the Wellness Center and I cried while looking out into the forest. I thought of my parents and my little brother being stranded there for days. I thought of everything I owned, photos and trinkets I deliberately didn’t take to college to make sure they were safe. I thought of my little dog Heidi, who shivers in fear when it’s sprinkling outside. After a few minutes I wiped my eyes, stood up, walked to organic chemistry, and went on with my busy week. Around this time last year, I was beginning my first semester at Duke as Hurricane Harvey was hitting my hometown of Houston, Texas. I had just come down from the high of O-week and was adjusting to the novelty of everything around me. Back at home, however, my family was experiencing a natural disaster unlike anything they had faced before. Seeing my family go through that stress, yet continuing to scurry through my daily life, made me realize how remote problems at home can feel in college. While preparing for Florence last week, I saw how lonely personal issues at Duke can feel when contrasted to the solidarity we feel when an event occurs on campus or statewide. In college, many of us feel like we have two homes. There can be the warm, familiar place that you come from and there is the fresh, challenging place of campus. For me, Nathan Heffernan is a Trinity Bre Bradham | Contributing Photographer sophomore. His column runs on these places were 1,200 miles away from each other, and even further Umbrellas bobbed along the Bryan Center plaza Friday afternoon as Hurricane Florence sent wind and rain. alternate Tuesdays.

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CAN’T MISS EVENTS SEPTEMBER 1 - NOVEMBER 17

Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom

Wedneday, September 19-Saturday, November 17 Power Plant Gallery A nine-week art exhibit based on a digital humanities project called Digital Aponte. The exhibit and conversations, screenings, performances, residencies, and workshops that accompany it are organized by the Power Plant Gallery and the Forum for Scholars and Publics. The series of events explores the histories and stories behind the Visionary Aponte exhibition and its timely meditations on slavery, Black incarceration, revolution and artistic expression.

PEOPLE GET READY: BUILDING A CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION Saturday, September 1-Sunday, January 6 Nasher Museum of Art

DUKE NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE [DNME] PRESENTS HYPERCUBE Thursday, September 20 8:00 pm East Duke 201—Nelson Music Room

PRECARIOUS LIVING: REDISCOVERIES IN AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILM Thusday, September 20-Thursday, November 15 Rubenstein Arts Center

ONE HURRICANE SEASON Thursday, October 11 Kreps and Lyndhurst Galleries, Center for Documentary Studies

DANCING AT LUGHNASA Thursday, November 8-Sunday, November 18 Sheafer Theater

NOVEMBER DANCES 2018 Friday, November 16-Saturday, November 17 7:30 pm Bryan Center Reynolds Industries Theater

Brought to you by Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Dance Program, Music Department, Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Studies, Nasher Museum of Art, Program in the Arts of the Moving Image’s Screen/Society and Theater Studies.