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Freshmen report urine leak in Brown kitchen Adam Beyer The Chronicle Duke has heard of Urinetown—but what about UrineBrown? Several students in Brown residence hall on East campus have reported urine leaking from the second floor into the kitchen on the first floor. The kitchen is currently closed to residents until repairs can be made. The building—originally constructed in 1927—is home to 125 freshmen. “We were...in the kitchen, and pee started flying from the ceiling,” said

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LSRW credited with improving yield This year’s freshman class—the second-largest in Duke history—includes a record number of Latino students thanks in part to an improved recruitment weekend. Approximately 11 percent of the 1750 students in the class of 2019 are Latino or Latina, surpassing the 10 percent mark set by the class of 2018. The classes of 2016 and 2017, on the other hand, were only seven percent Latino.

The increase in Latino students over the past two years will help Duke recruit Latino students in the future, explained Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag. “In general I think the increased Latino presence on campus makes Duke a more attractive option for students who might not have considered us before,” he wrote in an email. The record numbers resulted from more Latino students accepting their offers from Duke—not from more Latino students being admitted. In fact, fewer Latino students were admitted this year than usual, Guttentag wrote. Senior Gloria Tomlinson, co-president of Mi Gente, Duke’s Latino/a

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Marine Lab to deploy drones for data collection Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle The Duke Marine Lab is taking to the skies to study marine ecology and endangered species. After receiving Federal Aviation Administration approval Friday, the recentlyopened Marine Conservation Ecology Unmanned Systems Facility aims to use unmanned aerial vehicle technology—or drones—to gather data more efficiently than ever before. With the approval, the laboratory can now pilot drones stateside in addition to its already-sponsored missions abroad. The Beaufort, N.C., facility flew operational missions in August along with researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Costa Rica to track the nesting patterns of endangered sea turtles. “We’re interested in using these systems to go out and count animals, to study coastal habitats and obtain coastal imagery, to see how coastlines might be eroding, as well as for emergency response t’s very to maritime emergencies,” different to said David fly over the ocean Johnston, the drone facilthan it is over a ity’s executive cornfield director and — David Johnston assistant professor of the practice of marine conservation ecology at The Nicholas School of the Environment. Drone technology opens up new areas of research that were previously inaccessible, Johnston explained. He added that using drones is safer than helicopters or planes—which researchers have typically used in the past. Researchers will also be able to get drones in the air on shorter notice and more frequently compared to the time it takes to get a plane up-and-running, said Julian Dale, lead engineer for the facility. He noted that drones offer access to lower altitudes and tighter spaces and are particu-

Special to The Chronicle David Johnston, executive director of the Marine Conservation Ecology Unmanned Systems Facility, is looking forward to deploying drones stateside to collect extensive data.

larly useful when studying endangered species, because loud planes or helicopters risk altering the animals’ behavior. The FAA has not yet finalized regulations specific to UAVs, so in order to use one stateside, the facility had to apply for an exemption from traditional manned aircraft rules. Even with the exemption, the facility will only be able to use drones for narrow purposes, Johnston added. They are required to fly missions below 400 feet, operate during the day and must maintain line-of-sight with the drone during the entirety of the mission. Once the FAA finalizes its “Small [Unmanned Aircraft Systems] Rule”—which FAA spokesperson Les Dorr wrote via email is likely to happen in about a year—those

operating drones from the ground at the facility will be able to take an “aeronautical knowledge test” and become certified by the FAA as UAV pilots, Johnston explained, instead of needing the exemption. North Carolina also requires commercial public agency operators to pass a test in order to operate drones in the state, said Bobby Walston, aviation director at the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Although the facility has not yet been able to test out the technology locally, they have seen significant results abroad through their work in Costa Rica. Researchers have already reached out to the facility asking to collaborate on usage of their drone technology, and Johnston expects to get those projects up-and-running soon. The facility currently partners with

senseFly, a Swiss firm, in order to produce its drones, but Johnston hopes that the facility will continue to grow more independent in years to come. Apart from the research potential of using drones, Dale added that the facility plans to sponsor educational content— both at Duke and at nearby East Carteret High School. The Duke course is anticipated to begin next summer and be open to undergraduates, Johnston said. The curriculum would include information about federal and state regulations, data analysis and workflow, mission design and potentially drone construction. Johnston noted that there are multiple facilities around the country doing drone education, but that they tend to be primarily focused on agriculture and terrestrial environments rather than the marine research happening at the Marine Lab. “It’s very different to fly over the ocean than it is over a cornfield,” Johnston said. “We want to get students background on oceanography and the behavior of marine animals, and that’s going to be an important part of the curriculum.” As a supplement to the course curriculum, Sidney McLaurin, an MBA student at the Fuqua School, is working with the facility to help market students’ drone-usage skills to outside commercial entities, such as surveying companies. The partnership with East Carteret High School—which includes an aviation club at the school and the use of drone technology in advance placement classes—came out of an attempt to mitigate the often-negative public perception of drones, Dale said. The club will try to get students better acquainted with UAV systems and promote the safe use of drone technology. “We want to be able to train the nextgeneration of people who will be able to go out into the workforce and use these tools,” Johnston said.

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Professor panel talks Bull City Street Food race relations Monday dropped from lineup Elizabeth Djinis The Chronicle A panel of Duke professors reflected Monday night on the future of racial relations in the country and at the University following the tumultuous events of this summer. WUNC radio correspondent Frank Stasio moderated the “#SummerSyllabus2015 Race Matters” discussion between three Duke professors. A variety of topics were discussed, ranging from the University’s handling of last year’s noose incident, North Carolina’s voter ID laws and the presence of privilege on campus. Almost every seat in White Lecture Hall was filled, with audience members cheering or snapping when a panelist said something particularly powerful. “There are black students, Latino students and women students that can acknowledge having moments of fear traveling across campus,” said panelist Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African and African American Studies. “But there are folks in the audience that have never had to process that danger.” A screen behind the panel displayed stirring images related to the discussion. One of the most talked-about photos depicted a Confederate flag rally with a large banner reading “Southern Lives Matter.” “This seems to be a contest around whose

lives matter,” said panelist Karla Holloway, James B. Duke professor of English and professor of women’s studies and law. “There is not one life that has not mattered and made a difference in this country.” Holloway’s comment references the “Black Lives Matter” hashtag that took off on social media last year. The panelists were interested in how social media has changed the spread of information in each of these incidents, often times for the worse. But while social media is incredibly popular among young people, Neal said that much of the opposition against social media comes from its newness. No one knows exactly how it will have an effect, he explained. “All these young activists are doing the totality of it, using technology that is at their hands to do incredible work,” Neal said. “The simple pushback is that it’s not traditional grassroots.” Panelist Kerry L. Haynie, associate professor of political science and director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences, expressed some concern at the general lack of engagement from young people, especially following the changes to North Carolina’s voter ID laws. “You wonder why all hell didn’t break

Samantha Neal The Chronicle Although Bull City Street Food was voted to join the food truck rotation in the Spring, the truck will not be operating on campus this year. Senior Brian Taylor, chair of Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, said in a meeting Monday that Bull City Street Food did not clear the vetting process for adding trucks. Director of Dining Services Robert Coffey wrote in an email that he is unable to disclose why the truck did not meet all required criteria to conduct business on campus. The dismissal of the food truck—which would have offered students a rotating menu of options from a variety of world cuisines—leaves a vacancy in the rotation that will be filled after DUSDAC evaluates interested food trucks. “I think people are happy with what we have on campus,” said junior Michael Smargon, a member of the committee. “I don’t think people are calling for us to fill the spot [immediately].” The spot is expected to be filled by

October, Taylor said. Food trucks that may be under consideration include a gluten-free Vietnamese truck, a Korean barbeque truck and a Mexican option. DUSDAC may also consider re-adding Captain Ponchos, which had been removed from this year’s food truck lineup. The removal of Bull City Street Food leaves Belgian Waffle Crafters as the only new food truck. The truck—previously named Belgian Waffology—will be on campus Thursdays and has already been met with enthusiasm from students, Taylor said. In addition to Belgian Waffle Crafters, the remaining lineup includes the returning trucks Deli-icious, Humble Pig, Parlez-Vous Crepe, Gussys and Chirba Chirba. Deli-icious and Humble Pig are currently alternating Sundays starting at 1 p.m. and both serve food Tuesdays starting at 5:30 p.m. Although Bull City Street Food was originally supposed to share Mondays with Chirba Chirba, the dumpling truck now is the only vendor on those days. Chirba Chirba and Parlez-Vous Crepe occupy Wednesdays, and Gussys and Belgian Waffle Crafters serve Thursdays. In other business: As previously reported, students will

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$15,000 of photo equipment stolen from The Chronicle Sydney Sarachek The Chronicle Nine pieces of camera equipment were stolen from The Chronicle’s office during the summer, said Chrissy Beck, general manager of The Chronicle. Due to construction in and around the Flowers Building, which houses The Chronicle’s office on its third floor, staff members did not use the office from the last week of June until the second week of August. The Chronicle’s staff was not aware that the items—valued at approximately $15,000—were stolen until Aug. 15, when a photographer on staff opened the photo closet to retrieve cameras and found that the equipment was missing.

“Our space was not secured,” Beck said. “Anybody could easily walk in and out, construction [workers] or not.” Beck explained that during construction, maintenance staff used their DukeCards to provide subcontractors with access to the office using the card reader outside the office’s front door—which only allows Chronicle staff, maintenance and housekeeping to enter. The office’s front door was left propped open at times, she added. Beck said she knew that renovations would occur near The Chronicle’s office but was not alerted that the office itself would be accessed by construction workers. She noted that she understands the need for workers to use the office to access Page Auditorium, a site of the construction work, but is upset with the lack of security.

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DUSDAC from page 3 be able to sample fare from each of the vendors in West Union this year during events on the Bryan Center Plaza called Taste of West Union. Selected vendors have not yet been announced. Devil’s Krafthouse, the pub in West Union, is slated to open Feb. 1, and West Union’s grand opening will be in approximately one year. Taylor also noted that Dame’s Express has been especially busy in its first few days on Central Campus. Given the venue’s popularity and novelty on campus, the menu will continue to be in flux. “So far they’ve done really well,” Taylor said. “They did some trial runs during O-Week and ran out of food in a half an hour, an hour. On their first day of operation, they ran out of food again.” DUSDAC also addressed internal affairs at the meeting, such as the application to become a member, elections of an additional chair and committee structure.

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LATINO PRESENCE from page 1 ber of performing groups, Mezcla was held outside on a quadrangle for the first time in several years, which increased the sense of community many students felt, she said. “A lot of the Duke community was there too, and I think [LSRW attendees] seeing that we have such a diverse community at Duke really called their attention because it looked like everyone was invested in the show,” said senior Lorena Garcia, last year’s LSRW committee chair. “In past years, the show has been held indoors or rain canceled it, and it just isn’t what it’s supposed to be.” Other changes to last year’s LSRW included a faculty-student luncheon with more participating professors than in previous years and a panel held at the Duke Coffeehouse. “Students felt more comfortable asking questions there than in a large lecture hall where things can be a little overwhelming,” Garcia said. Attendance at LSRW has remained consistent over the past few years, and last year’s attendance was no different. The weekend averages around 60 to 80 attendees, and over half of the students who attend LRSW enroll at Duke the following fall, said Ashley Taylor, senior admissions officer, Latino recruiter and LSRW coordinator. Taylor noted that in light of the recent changes, the LSRW team is still looking for ways to improve. “The team gives me great feedback and new ideas to improve LSRW, and because of their dedication and hard work, I trust them with quite a bit of planning and budgeting responsibility,” she said in an email. “I’m always blown away by their efforts, enthusiasm and pride to showcase Duke from the student perspective.” Tomlinson said the increases in the Latino and Latina student population at Duke is a cause for celebration and should inspire continued growth in the community. The high yield among Latino students in the Class of 2019 comes after Mi Gente opened its first ever office space in the Bryan Center last April. Although many felt at that time that the progress made by Latino students on campus was exciting, some also noted that there is still more work to be done. Former Mi Gente co-president Karina Santellano, Trinity ‘15, explained in an email that even getting the Mi Gente office space in the Bryan Center was a challenge when dealing with administration. “They would not budge and despite saying they supported us, said that space anywhere at Duke was

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limited because of construction and they couldn’t treat student groups differently by giving us space,” she wrote. “I felt that we nearly had to yank a tooth out of administration to get them to start making moves!” Santellano explained that the space in the Bryan Center is a starting point for the Latino community to eventually move into a cultural space where events can be held, similar to the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. She also highlighted the fact that Mi Gente is often given the job of recruiting Latino students during LSRW on top of programming for the current student body and the regular workload that all Duke students face on a daily basis. “To be Latino/a at Duke University can be exhausting,” she wrote. “How do you become part of a greater community when you see that the community itself is not

PANEL from page 3 loose when the state said we’re going to make it harder for people to have the right to vote,” Haynie said. “It was just sort of business as usual.” The panel, which occurred a week after a discussion hosted by UNC-TV focusing on tensions between racial minorities and law enforcement, often revolved around issues at the state and national levels. But the conversation also drifted to the events that took place on campus last Spring—namely, the noose that was hung on a tree in the Bryan Center Plaza and the apology that followed. The anonymous apology letter was posted on Duke News’ website May 1, a month after the incident in question. Both Haynie and Holloway chided the addressee and the University for the letter’s anonymity. “How do I judge the sincerity of a person without knowing who’s giving it?” Haynie said. Holloway was incensed by the connotation that comes with anonymity. She said it implied a “need to protect” the writer, and that it was “unsafe” for the community to know their identity. All four panelists looked to the future with uncertainty. Haynie noted that although Duke has changed for the better, there is still work to be done. For senior Danielle Sumner, the discussion was “eyeopening.” Sumner said she had followed the noose events but had not considered the anonymity issue until the panel brought it up. “We still have a long way to go,” Sumner said. “I have to go so far out of my way to understand these issues. I wish it was easier. I wish there was more discourse about them.”

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BROWN from page 1 freshman Lanre Oshin, a Brown resident. Other students recounted similar stories of entering the kitchen unaware of the leak until encountering it themselves. “I opened the kitchen door to get water from the water fountain, and I felt droplets on my forearm,” freshman Ahmed Mohamed said. He said he did not know there was an issue with the kitchen until a fellow resident informed him that the liquid was due to a leak from the second floor’s plumbing. Mohamed said that he immediately showered and avoided the kitchen. Shortly thereafter, HDRL posted a sign on the door asking residents not to use the kitchen. Brown’s plumbing issue coincides with its re-opening after undergoing major renovations this summer that improved the bathrooms, common room and kitchen and created a new study room. Brown is also now home to Duke Stores’ East Campus e were... in the location— which kitchen and pee occupies the former computer clusstarted flying from the ter area. The store, ceiling which was previous— Lanre Oshin ly located on Marketplace’s bottom floor, was relocated to make way for new classrooms in Marketplace’s basement as part of the East Union renovation project. In Feb. 2014, a fire broke out on the dorm’s third floor, temporarily displacing several students. Joe Gonzalez, dean for residential life, said that the leak was unconnected to the renovations and that it would take “a few days” before the kitchen could be reopened. He also noted that he could not confirm that the leak was in fact urine. Freshman Dorothy Alexis noted that bathroom quality has been a concern among Brown residents and said that several House Council candidates spoke about crowding in the bathrooms due to a lack of stalls and plumbing issues in their campaign speeches at the Brown house meeting Sunday. Alexis said, however, that she was not aware of the urine leak and has had generally positive experiences with the Brown bathrooms. “I live on the first floor so the girls’ bathroom has five shower stalls. I’m usually almost always in the bathroom by myself,” she noted.

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DUKE TOES THE LINE Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle Duke’s traditional preseason trip to the North Carolina mountains last month was more important than in years past. With just 12 runners on the roster, the Blue Devils had to gel as a unit, acclimating five freshmen to the college training regimen during a few days away before returning for the grind of the Triangle heat and the start of the semester. Another oddity to the trip to Blowing Rock, N.C.—Duke was healthy. “At preseason this year, we’ve never had it happen where all of us are going to work out every day,” senior Anima Banks said. “Usually, people stay back because they need to get work done or they’re injured and they can’t run, but this year we had every girl working out every day.” Given the small roster of this year’s team, staying healthy will be crucial for the Blue Devils as they look to build consistency under second-year head coach Christine Engel. Duke finished 10th at the ACC Championships last October and lost several of its top finishers in the offseason. The Blue Devils will hold an alumni meet Tuesday at 9 a.m. before the regular season begins later this month. After the long indoor and outdoor track and field season—which extends into June for many of Duke’s returning runners—Engel had her team take some

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keep them healthy throughout the long summer.” Last year’s trip to the mountains was also an eventful one—Engel had to get to know her new team, and her runners had to get to know her. “I got the job literally a week before the team came back [for preseason training], so it was really hitting the ground running, trying to learn everything, learn Duke,

After struggling through yet another long summer featuring way too many baseball games, there is nothing like the impending excitement of college and the Sameer Pandhare p r o f e s s i o n a l football season. For the next two months, it will be Blue Devil football, not basketball, that rules Duke athletics, and though the team doesn’t garner the attention of the campus like its counterparts in Cameron Indoor Stadium, this could be the makeor-break season for the program. After residing in or near the cellar of the ACC for almost a decade, the Blue Devils’ 25 victories in the last three years have slowly brought interest in football back to Durham. Led by head coach David Cutcliffe, the program has appeared in three consecutive bowl games and reached the ACC Championship game in 2013. But without another solid season to build on that foundation this year, Duke’s progress may be all for naught. With the graduation of the secondwinningest senior class in the past 50 years, the familiar faces of Jamison Crowder and Anthony Boone that

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Chronicle File Photo The Blue Devils are looking for a balance of veteran leadership and young talent this season, uniting four seniors with five freshmen.

time to rest and recover before beginning training for the upcoming cross-country season. “[The rest] is really important not just physically, but also mentally,” Engel said. “They get a little downtime, and then we build up their volume progressively over the summer, add in a variety of different things—not just going out and running every day, but trying to add in some strength work, flexibility work to

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Cooke Carcagno poised to lead Duke into new era Ryan Hoerger The Chronicle Robyn Horner was the only head coach the Blue Devils had ever known. Since the program’s inception in 1998, Horner had been at the helm, building Duke’s presence on the water from scratch. But Horner’s retirement in late May brought the opening chapter of Blue Devil rowing to a close, and new head coach Megan Cooke Carcagno is preparing to build on that foundation. A two-time All-American COOKE CARCAGNO at California, Cooke Carcagno has high expectations for what the Duke program can become in the near future. “I want to take this team to the NCAA

championships. I want to be one of the top six teams in the country within the next few years here,” she said. “It’s not going to be easy. No one ever said it was going to be easy, but that’s where our sights are set.” Cooke Carcagno was announced as Horner’s successor July 28 after seven years on the coaching staff at Wisconsin, where the Badgers were a perennial presence at the NCAA championship and finished the 2015 season ranked 12th in the country. She inherits a Blue Devil program that has 12 top-three finishes at the ACC championship in 17 seasons of competition but has never made the NCAA championship. With a smaller roster at Duke—not even considering the more than 100 walkons who audition each fall at Wisconsin— the more intimate environment will enable Cooke Carcagno to connect on a more personal level with each athlete. See ROWING on Page 7

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CROSS COUNTRY from page 6 learn about all the returning athletes and freshmen,” Engel said. “Fast-forward to now, a year later...I’m comfortable with Duke, our returning athletes [and I] have a great relationship.” Banks and classmate Madison Granger will be looked to as the anchors of this year’s squad, with both runners coming off personal-best times during the track season. Banks crossed the line in 2:05.42 in the 800 meters at the NCAA East Regionals in May—the fourth-fastest time in Duke history—and Granger clocked in at 4:20.35—also the new fourth-fastest time in the program record books—in the 1,500 meters at the ACC Championships, providing momentum heading into the offseason. The duo was recently named team captains for the season.

The five-harrier freshman class is the first Engel has recruited to Durham. With such a small roster, several of the newcomers could compete for spots on the race course right away, including Gabrielle Richichi, who finished 16th at the national high school cross-country meet as a senior. Olivia Gwynn and Kim Hallowes bring an international flair to the group, hailing from the United Kingdom and Australia, respectively. “This year it’s really awesome because the freshmen [Engel] recruited, personality-wise, they function really well with her and really well with the team,” Banks said. “And because it’s her freshmen, you can already sense that closeness and that respect.” Engel prefers to do all of the day’s running in the morning, Banks said, shifting away from doing one workout in the morning and another in the

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Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Former field hockey forward Jessica Buttinger will take part in the cross country alumni meet Tuesday morning after spending her final semester at Duke on the track team.

afternoon, one of the noticeable changes to the training schedule. Adjusting to the new leadership took some time, but Banks said things have now fallen into place. “Last year, we find out that we’re getting a coach switch in the middle of the summer, which was kind of a surprise. And then as as coach, she doesn’t know the athletes that she’s dealing with when she comes in, so I think that that was kind of an interim period for us—we were trying to get to know her as a person, she was trying to get to know 20 girls as a person, which is obviously going to be really hard,” Banks said. “There’s no limbo period anymore, so the chemistry this year is much better.” Four freshmen—Gwynn, Richichi, Hallowes and Sheridan Wilbur—will toe the line for the first time as a college runner in Tuesday’s alumni meet, which

will also feature N.C. Central and a group of former Blue Devil athletes, including former field hockey forward Jessica Buttinger, who competed on the track for Duke last spring. Duke will compete in the Bull City Classic Sept. 12 against N.C. Central— the same day as the Blue Devil football team’s home opener, also against the crosstown Eagles—before traveling to nearby Cary, N.C., for the adidas XC Challenge Sept. 18. “Our philosophy is we want to focus on our process goals, because the things we do each and every day are going to contribute to those outcome goals,” Engel said. “Those are the things you really need to focus on on a daily basis— working hard, recovering. Creating a really, really positive and supportive dynamic is something that we’re really committed to.”

ROWING from page 6 Another big advantage to taking charge of the program in Durham will be the opportunity to train year-round on the water. The Badgers were often kept out of their boats from mid-November until early April due to the frigid Wisconsin winters. “That’s over five months—that’s a long time when your sport’s season championship is mid-May,” said Cooke Carcagno, who anticipates that Duke will spend five days on the water and one day on land each week. “The other side of that coin is the women at Wisconsin were able to go to the NCAA championship year after year because of the training that they did. That’s a true testament to how good you can be if you put in the work, and they were able to put in the work on land and be fast and good enough to get those bids every year, which is no small feat.” Cooke Carcagno has yet to bring in her first recruiting class at Duke, but she hit the recruiting trail hard to fill out her coaching staff, and did not come back empty-handed. Former Ohio State assistant coach Chuck Rodosky joined the staff in early August after six seasons with the Buckeyes, where he won three national championships. A few weeks later, Chase Graham came

Chronicle File Photo The construction of a boat house for the rowing program was one of many things former head coach Robyn Horner accomplished in building the foundation on which new head coach Megan Cooke Carcagno will try to add.

onboard following a successful 2015 campaign with the Saugatuck Rowing Club in Westport, Conn. Graham’s varsity 8 went undefeated, claiming victories at the Head of the Charles, San Diego Crew Classic and Youth National Championship. “I wasn’t looking for people who have done the job for a million years. I wasn’t looking for the highest experience level,”

Cooke Carcagno said. “I was looking for people who were used to winning. That was the number one goal for me, and what I think this program needs is people who are planning on winning all the time.” The Blue Devils will ease into their fall schedule in order to give the team time to get accustomed to the new coaching staff, not competing until Nov. 1 at the Princeton Chase.

“The overriding theme that I’ve sensed since I’ve been here, reaching from the captains all the way down to the freshmen, has been excitement,” Cooke Carcagno said. “It’s hard to not get excited after listening to [Duke vice president and director of athletics Kevin White] speak. I’m going to have to figure out a way to call him down to all my team meetings.”

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helped precipitate the Blue Devils’ rise are now gone, leaving behind inexperienced and unproven talent. Help is certainly on the way in the form of Duke’s 2016 recruiting class, which is currently ranked 23rd by ESPN and features six four-star recruits. But in the meantime, this year’s team will need to successfully form a bridge to the next generation of Blue Devil football. Picked to finish fourth in the ACC Coastal Division in the preseason poll, Duke could again have a chance to contend for the division title—when it claimed the crown in 2013, Cutcliffe’s squad had been slated last in the preseason poll. Now, I’m not saying I expect the Blue Devils to be in the national title discussion come winter. The team is scheduled to play only one ranked team—No. 16 Georgia Tech—this season and with the Coastal Division among the weakest in the country, respect for Duke in the polls will be hard to come by. But there are numerous reasons why spending a Saturday at the newly renovated Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium will be worth your time, even if it means getting up early for a 12:30 p.m. kickoff. Among the biggest reasons is the new venue itself. With the removal of the track, fans will be closer than they’ve ever been to the action, and the action itself will be magnified by a brand-new LED video board twice the size of its predecessor. On that video board, you can expect to see numerous highlights of redshirt senior safety Jeremy Cash among others in the Blue Devils’ secondary— which is shaping up to be one of the best in the nation. After transferring following his first season at Ohio State, Cash was one of the best at his position in the country the last two seasons and garnered consecutive All-America selections. But the Miami native turned down the opportunity to “Cash” in on his success and head to the NFL and instead returns as a consensus AllAmerican ready to wreck havoc in the ACC once again. Fans may not realize it yet, but in watching Cash every Saturday, they could be seeing a future first-round NFL draft pick go to work. On the offensive side of the ball, Duke’s short-passcentric offense may not change, but what has changed is the man running the show. Redshirt junior Thomas Sirk—known by some in prior seasons as ‘the guy that comes in to run the ball on third and short’—now takes over as the full-time starting quarterback. To this point, Sirk has thrown only 14 more passes in his college career than I have, but watching the growth of the 6-foot-4, 220-pound quarterback with a cannon of an arm promises to be worthwhile. If special teams is more of your thing, then the Blue Devils will certainly be worth watching this season. Along with returning three-time All-ACC kicker Ross Martin and three-time All-ACC punter Will Monday, Duke will send the always-electrifying DeVon Edwards back to return kickoffs, creating a threat to take it to the house every time he touches the ball. The Blue Devils’ schedule should certainly help you get excited for the upcoming season. A late September visit from Georgia Tech should give fans the chance to watch the Yellow Jackets’ vaunted triple-option as well as a squad that has an outside shot at getting in the national title discussion. A Halloween showdown against Miami will be Duke’s chance to exact revenge on the Hurricanes for last year’s defeat at Sun Life Stadium. And a matchup with Pitt Nov. 14 promises to be a fun one as well—the last two games between the teams have ended with 51-48 and 58-55 scores that might threaten the circuits of the Blue Devils’ new scoreboard. Yes, basketball season is more than two months away. But for the time being, there is plenty of intrigue to be found with Duke football.

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t the end of last semester, the Interfraternity Council announced a student-led taskforce that will investigate the role of Greek life in sexual assault on campus with the goal of making recommendations to prevent and address such misconduct. This comes just before last month’s revisions to our sexual misconduct policy that worked to clarify confusing sections, including some of last year’s more substantive update. Although these changes better our sexual misconduct policy, some previously raised issues with the policy have not been addressed and there is still more to be done by students to make our campus safe. Last Spring, we introduced a bevy of procedural rights not afforded to students in these disciplinary hearings. This concern, among issues raised in other editorials, has not been addressed by the recent changes. Students should have published answers to why and in what ways these hearings differ from normal legal proceedings, if only to clear up understandable misconceptions they may have. For example, a comparison of standards of evidence that clearly explains why we operate under a preponderance of evidence is vital to understanding that crucial piece of the policy. This is not to say there has not been progress thanks to administrative statements, like one last year by Office of Student

Conduct Director Stephen Bryan on why sentencing guidelines are hidden. In either case, answers to more common questions, like how hearing panel members are trained, need to have a place in the upcoming Frequently Asked Questions section to keep dialogue on the policy fresh and well-informed. Speaking to students—affiliated and non-affiliated alike— it is clear there is potential for the IFC’s taskforce to make useful recommendations for campus culture

Editorial and the misconduct policy. Taskforce members must be sure to eliminate conflicts of interest in their selfexamination and shy away from seeing the taskforce at all as a source of public relations capital. Current IFC president Max Schreiber said “We’re the only school in the country to have something like this,” but while confidence is encouraging in the classroom and on the sports field, the Duke community should never rest on being “better” than other schools when it comes to sexual misconduct. We should take these initiatives in stride and continue to improve. An area always in need of improvement is informing students in a way corresponding to how

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students engage in discussion. The new Title IX session during Orientation Week is a great step that enables their conversations. A problem associated with this and sessions like True Blue is that they do not always capture students’ full attention. Smaller group discussions that challenge people to connect legal definitions of sexual misconduct with their personal understanding or misunderstanding of policy and situations of misconduct present an opportunity for mentoring between students. Making all of this a continuing experience for sophomores, juniors and seniors should also be strongly considered. In order to take students’ understanding from theoretical to interpersonal, survivors could also voluntarily speak or write to students about their experiences. Including current or former student narratives in assemblies would command attention powerfully. Further changes to the sexual misconduct policy and campus discourse are a necessity to reducing sexual misconduct on campus. The steps Duke administration and students have taken, especially by those students who have spoken about their experiences, have done well in making the issue a part of campus consciousness. And, put simply, Duke students, administrators and faculty cannot stop here. We must continue to improve how sexual misconduct is addressed both in policy and in discussion.

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s more Americans open up to Donald Trump’s presidential bid, I too have found myself swept up in the media-fueled Trump frenzy. You won’t see me wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, though, but not for a lack of contempt for the current state of politics. My priorities lie closer to home — we don’t need Trump for President of the United States; we need Trump for President of Duke. Our current administration’s approach to students’

likely you never realized that these UNC students even existed, but they’re among us and stealing our education. Over on West Campus though, we are defenseless. Not only will Trump build us the 24 inch stone wall we need, he’ll rightfully overcharge the UNC athletic director for damages by tens of thousands of dollars to pay for it. You can say goodbye to Internet and ePrint issues under Trump as well. The Donald doesn’t know how to fix computer problems, but he knows who can, at least more

Justin Koritzinsky PERFORMANCE REVIEW concerns is to ignore them or, in the rare instance that alumni outrage demands a response, to build a glass box. While I can’t guarantee that Trump will solve these problems, I’m certain that he won’t miss the opportunity to respond to these criticisms. And a response is the beginning of a dialogue, which is the beginning of a solution unless it’s the impetus for your forced removal from the room. If it’s any consolation, Trump also builds 95-story glass boxes without inconveniencing people nearly as much as the current administration did building the new Bryan Center entrance. For a further example of the current administration resolving student complaints with a solution that only worsens the issue, look no further than the buses. If you’re a student on campus, then you’re probably upset with the new bus routes that can take 20 minutes to arrive, only to pass you by because they’re full. The answer is not to return to the old and almost equally despised routes, though. To paraphrase the great Ronald Reagan, “Buses are not the solution to our problems; buses are the problem.” Trump knows this and would surely borrow from his Iowa children’s policy to institute helicopter rides that would safely and seamlessly transfer students around campus. In no time, Trump would also improve the dining options on campus, putting the WaDuke to shame by replacing Duke’s dining options with Michelin-starred restaurants. And there will be no more running to Dame’s late at night to buy overpriced booze with your pathetic excuse for a fake. With Trump’s standard butler and bottle service throughout campus, we will no longer be forced to settle for anything less than Dom Pérignon. While many are quick to mislabel Trump’s blunt honesty as arrogance, I’m confident that animosity and high tensions would not define a Trump presidency here at Duke. Rather, I think it would be a time of great growth — actually, the best growth. Under Trump, the only complaints on Fix My Campus would be a lack of Oreos and a shortage of hairspray. Did anyone notice the stone wall around East Campus that prohibits UNC students under the height of 24 inches from illegally entering the freshmen campus? If not, it’s

than Dick Broadhead or Hillary Clinton. And there is no organization on campus better prepared to benefit from a Trump presidency than the Women’s Center. Trump has assured women that they need not fear being insulted so as long as they’re not Rosie O’Donnell. More so, he “cherishes women” and he “will take care of women’s health issues better than anybody.” Trump will maintain our lack of resources for illegal aliens on campus and continue to limit our socioeconomic diversity on a scale that would make Washington Duke himself smile in his grave, inside of his underground marble crypt, inside of his giant stone chapel, located at the center of his multi-billion dollar namesake university. The Donald would also put an end to our bungled relations with China — in particular, the mismanaged development of Duke Kunshan University. He knows that “they’re killing us”— they’re taking our money, behind on construction deadlines and ignoring our educational values. With Trump in the negotiating chair, we’d surely secure the Forbidden City as our Chinese campus, a centrally located and already walled complex. A partnership between the Donald and Duke would be a marriage of winners. Trump is the self-proclaimed “total and unequivocal winner” and Coach K is the winningest basketball coach of all time. This unique ability to best everyone constantly draws media attention to both of us, with only Trump regularly out-trending Duke on social media. On any given day, Trump’s trending for something as ordinary as attending jury duty, and on the next day, Duke’s trending because a student chose not to read a book. Surely Trump would resolve this issue by mandating that all students read “The Art of the Deal,” a book that only total losers would object to. Who better to be president of the university most fixated on by the media than the person most fixated on by the media? The Donald and Duke not only sounds right, but after a deeper, more issues-driven analysis, just makes sense. Let’s Make Duke Great Again. Justin Koritzinsky is a Trinity junior. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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have a strange relationship with Facebook. When it seems that most of my friends are content with limiting their timelines to their photos and perhaps a Vine or two, I choose to do more. I post just about everything from articles to song lyrics to recent events, even a haiku or two. It’s all there. I’ve always valued openness, I guess, and have never felt comfortable about misrepresenting myself to others. I’m proud of my identity and hold nothing back.

merit of the claims from both parties and also our personal thoughts on the matter, and a few hours later, when we decided to call it a night, I thanked him for prompting this discussion. While neither of us shifted our opinions completely, we both came away with a much better understanding of the issue at hand, and I realized our discussion, while long, actually benefitted our friendship rather than hurt it. What was different about this exchange of views? Simply this: our conversation was rooted in genuine

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Besides keeping my timeline private to the public, there is one major exception to my openness rule: I strongly dislike comment debates. We’ve all been there, either right in the action or spectating from the sidelines. Someone posts a status or shares an article, and suddenly it’s open season. I used to be comfortable with entertaining these discussions, as I always felt they offered valuable insight, whether it be anecdotal evidence or statistical data. As time went on, however, I realized that the few times these discussions proved valuable were not enough to justify their continued presence on my timeline. The tipping point for me was during my freshman year of college when I had posted an article from the Swedish edition of “The Local” describing how the use of half-naked women by American Apparel to sell “unisex” shirts had sparked sexism complaints in Sweden, resulting in the US fashion retailer being reported to the country’s advertising watchdog. The article posited a persuasive argument, and I supported the claims of sexism. Not a big deal as I share articles of this nature fairly often. There are usually a fair number of likes and comments, perhaps an exchange of ideas or two, and that would be all. This time, however, a former friend of mine (we’ll call him Ben) made a rather pointed remark aimed at women, prompting responses from a number of my female friends. Several comments later, I jumped in and put an end to the discussion, as I felt it had gone off on a tangent that had nothing to do with the article. Ben then asked why I was “trying so desperately to be a knight in shining armor to women who had never even asked me to” and then blocked me. I found out later that he had been dumped by his girlfriend the night before. I ended up deleting all of the comments on that post and made the decision to reserve the right to restrict comments on any post I chose. As it turned out, not everyone who commented did so to gain a better understanding of an issue. From that point on, if I did not want to start a debate, I would not be forced into starting one. Not to restrict the possibility of broadening my understanding, I encouraged my friends to message me with any thoughts they may have on an issue. Earlier this month, I struck up a conversation with a buddy of mine who is also a Duke student about a post from The Atlantic discussing allegations of religious rights violations in Denver. We shared our honest thoughts on the legal

respect for the other person. As a result, our goal was not to stubbornly stick to our ideological persuasions and attack the other person for disagreeing with us. We simply sought to gain a better understanding of the issue from each other. We acknowledged that neither of us had all the answers and that our conversation was just a small part of a much bigger discussion that transcended our Facebook exchange. This, I believe, is what is too often missing in the Duke community and in the academic community at large: respect for others. This lack of respect is what is poisoning good discussion on college campuses because we are more focused on shutting others down who disagree with us rather than sharing our thoughts with the intention of offering valuable insight. I feel this negative reaction stems from what I call “the headline problem” where we are sometimes too quick to make judgments solely on the basis of a sentence-long headline. The problem is that headlines (and often entire articles) do not do a good job of accurately describing the complex process that goes into making a final decision, a process which is often a combination of personal experiences, individual morality and critical evaluation of available evidence. Trolls aside, those who possess alternative viewpoints have valid reasons for doing so, reasons they care deeply about, but it seems that we are not actually interested in inquiring about their beliefs to gain a better understanding. There is a preference on social media towards shutting others down who share something we disagree with. Fair and open dialogue across differences and respect for the perspectives of others are the cornerstones of good discussion, and I believe this discussion is what is needed in order to actually progress as a society and truly move forward. Can this sort of discussion exist on Facebook? My personal experience inclines me to believe that it can indeed; however, it will take a collective effort from all. Regardless of our political persuasions, we must commit to supporting good discussion, no matter the issue, no matter how personally involved we feel in the outcome. Allowing additional input makes discussion in general more representative, honest and valuable, and helps us make more informed decisions to solve the problems of today and prepare ourselves for the challenges of tomorrow. Paul Popa is a Trinity junior. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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be mapped empirically from start to finish regarding the speech acts that shape it? As a gay man, growing up in heteronormative spaces meant that I had to learn how to sound like what was normal for a person of my gender. I had to be “one of the guys” – asking girls to homecoming, constantly using words like “dude” and “bro,” refraining from crying even when I needed to desperately. Narratives I absorbed about my identity included narratives that shamed me and taught me to strive to be something other than myself. Looking at everyone else, I wondered why people were so happy to be in “something” with someone. Relationships didn’t seem like a happy place to me, and I defined love outside of romantic contexts until after high school graduation. And I still hold on to the definitions of love that I’ve held dear throughout life in many ways. Love was laying down one’s life for one’s friends. Love was my mother tucking me into bed at night and waking me up in the morning with her lilting voice. Love was a fleeting moment of pure silliness with my sister while we danced to the Spice Girls. Could love, too, exist in romance? Years into my Duke career, after coming out and overcoming an ensuing identity crisis of sorts, a mysterious app called Tinder came out. Not long ago, I remember online dating spaces being stigmatized, but I figured, along with many others in the millennial generation, that since we’ve already ceded away details of our private lives to the government (thanks, Obama), it couldn’t hurt to create my own profile. And for a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Tinder proved to be an effective space for finding people who might be interested in me rather than having to awkwardly navigate people’s orientations in the harsh world of physicality. Swiping through pixelated faces of all types of guys within a close radius, I found him. It looked like his smile was the kind to light up a room. His soft brown eyes complimented his short clean haircut and bright fashion choices, and his photos lay above a T-Swift quote. I thought about this moment, about the ways in which I was perceiving this person. Was this too good to be true in real life? Was this still Duke? Was this the possibility of love? I swiped right. A glowing pair of photos – his and mine – flashed across my iPhone screen. “It’s a match!” it exclaimed. My heart started to beat faster. I

waited a few minutes and then began what would become the first speech act of a relationship. “Hi there!” I sent him. We linguists call speech acts like these as having a dominant phatic function, or one that opens the channel of communication. At one point there existed nothing between us. But with one typed-out utterance, a bridge formed between the two of us. “Hey J,” he sent back. The bridge that I created was crossed from the other side.

We met on a dinner date, suggested by a speech act with a dominant conative function (one that focuses the speaker’s intention toward the addressee). And in the most mundane of ways, eating at one of Duke’s five eateries, we began to lay the brickwork for our relationship. Through questions and stories, we learned about each other’s lives: where we came from, our families and friends, what drives us forward, where we want to go in life. The linguistic part of me had always made me hyperconscious of the wordiness of words – their physical form. My eyes smiled when I heard him call me cute names. I got a bit weirded out when he called me “dude” one time, a term I had always associated with straight masculinity. On top of it all, our relationship was not just about the speech acts between him and me. It was also about the speech acts made by the friends we introduced each other to, the movies we watched, the music we listened to together. We lived our lives in this language-shaped sequence, and our relationship’s foundation had turned into more of a shoulder-height wall. I remember that one day in linguistics class, we were studying philosopher J.L. Austin’s concept of performative utterances, which are speech acts where the speaker uses language not just to present informative about the world but to actively change the world. “I hereby pronounce you a married couple,” or “I name this ship the U.S.S. Harry Potter” could certainly qualify. But when I heard my significant other one night say the words “I think I wanna break up,” I knew that the power of these performative utterances were immense. We had constructed, over the course of months, a beautiful wall of trust and comfort, but in one moment, a speech act knocked it all to the ground. And I was left feeling broken. But I was happy to learn through this experience that this love stuff, which I used to think had permeated my culture to an almost gross extent, may have been possible for me. The sequence of romantic speech acts destroyed the fallacies that I had taken in growing up, and I knew that while first and foremost I am one single person who needs self-love and selfcare, love was possible for me. And what bridged this chasm of experience was a simple speech act: “Hi there!” Drew Korschun is a Trinity senior. His columns run on alternate Tuesdays.

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